I’ve updated the relay server back end to properly support wordpress clients pushing content to the relay. If you have a server you wouldn’t mind pointing at the relay, I’d love to get some more sites on it to test it out.
The address is: https://relay.argentwolf.org
If you have any issues, please let me know at alan@friendica.argentwolf.org thanks!
If you are interested in trying the server out, you can get it here. Version 2.4.0 is in testing and will be released soon!
@alan Pretty cool. Any plans to push this upstream?
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Thanks for the comment! I’ve previously submitted a PR to the original at yukimochi/Activity-Relay. Since then my version has diverged quite a bit – I’ve added Friendica support – which was missing in the original, open publisher/Wordpress Activity Pub handling, and a built in public facing website. I’ve also updated the docker file and added Debian packages. It’s been almost a year since the last activity in the original repo. I plan to continue to maintain this fork. All of the changes I’ve made are public, and the original maintainer or others are welcome to incorporate them if they wish.
@alan I'll take a look at your fork later, because I've always wanted Friendica support for my relay even though I'm not a user. I'm assuming it's easy to remove the frontend page you added?
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Yes, instructions are provided in the README(s) on how you can adjust the front end. There is no integrated web server, but instructions for nginx and apache are provided.
Once testing is complete, I expect to push rc5 to final tomorrow.
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@alan@www.wolfandraven.blog hmm, NodeBB can’t seem to subscribe to your relay, though I can’t tell whether it’s due to your end or mine 😅
Regressions do occur so most likely it’s on my end.
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Julian,
Thanks for the message! I’m looking into the issue now. Could you share which URL you attempted to connect with? I see traffic from your domain to wolfandraven.blog, but not to relay.argentwolf.org.
If you could try again and let me know the below info, it would be helpful:
URL: https://relay.argentwolf.org/actor
NodeBB domain and version
Any error you get from the federation page
Whether the relay entry fails immediately or remains pending
Thank you!
I’ve updated the relay to rc6-2, which may have resolved the issue. Once you try again, please let me know!
@alan@www.wolfandraven.blog yeah, I’m attempting subscription from
activitypub.space, it looks like the follow is sent through but the Accept fails signature verification… maybe.Last attempt was 23:06 EDT or so
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Just from another server (
bb.devnull.land) :2026-07-28T03:17:41.391Z [4567/175118] - verbose: [activitypub/send] Successfully sent Follow to https://relay.argentwolf.org/inbox
2026-07-28T03:17:41.412Z [4567/175118] - verbose: [activitypub/verify] Starting signature verification...
2026-07-28T03:17:41.413Z [4567/175118] - verbose: [activitypub/verify] Signature verification failed.
2026-07-28T03:17:41.414Z [4567/175118] - verbose: [middleware/activitypub] HTTP signature verification failed.
2026-07-28T03:17:42.942Z [4567/175118] - verbose: [activitypub/verify] Starting signature verification...
2026-07-28T03:17:42.944Z [4567/175118] - verbose: [activitypub/verify] Signature verification failed.
2026-07-28T03:17:42.945Z [4567/175118] - verbose: [middleware/activitypub] HTTP signature verification failed.
2026-07-28T03:17:45.462Z [4567/175118] - verbose: [activitypub/verify] Starting signature verification...
2026-07-28T03:17:45.464Z [4567/175118] - verbose: [activitypub/verify] Signature verification failed.
2026-07-28T03:17:45.465Z [4567/175118] - verbose: [middleware/activitypub] HTTP signature verification failed.
Log’s pretty vague, but maybe that helps. I’ll try to find another relay running ActivityRelay to test. Might be an incompatibility with that style entirely, who knows.
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Thanks for the logs. I found two issues with the relay, working on fixing them! Once I get rc6-3 up and live, I’ll be looking for another follow attempt!
RC6-3 is live. When you get a chance, try to connect again please!
Sadly no dice, but I will try again with some better logging in the morning. I’m curious to see what your
but I guess if it’s failing signature validation then it’s not even getting to that part.
Acceptlooks likeIt looks like it worked to me.
bb.devnull.land shows as subscribed to the relay on relay.argentwolf.org.
But I see it’s gone now.
The relay now accepts the NodeBB server actor, but both its outbound Accept and reciprocal Follow received HTTP 400, after which NodeBB sent Undo(Follow). Could you send the verbose bb.devnull.land logs from 2026-07-28 03:57:37 through 03:58:25 UTC, especially any activitypub/verify, middleware/activitypub, dispatcher, schema-validation, or inbox error lines? Also please include the exact NodeBB version.
I did, yes. I think the
Followis sent and now correctly processed by your relay, but theAcceptthat it sends back is not signed correctly. I will attempt to debug.Thanks for the extra info! Looking into it now!
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