ActivityPub message sending time constants

(@johannesernst)

When I create a new post, when exactly it that going to be HTTP POST’d to my followers? Do I read this correctly that it might take an hour?

wp cron event list

+------------------------------------+---------------------+-----------------------+------------+
| hook | next_run_gmt | next_run_relative | recurrence |
+------------------------------------+---------------------+-----------------------+------------+
| wp_version_check | 2024-10-15 22:57:25 | 58 minutes 33 seconds | 12 hours |
| wp_privacy_delete_old_export_files | 2024-10-15 22:57:26 | 58 minutes 34 seconds | 1 hour |
| activitypub_update_followers | 2024-10-15 22:57:27 | 58 minutes 35 seconds | 1 hour |
| wp_update_plugins | 2024-10-15 23:27:25 | 1 hour 28 minutes | 12 hours |
| wp_update_themes | 2024-10-15 23:57:25 | 1 hour 58 minutes | 12 hours |
| wp_site_health_scheduled_check | 2024-10-16 21:57:26 | 23 hours 58 minutes | 1 week |
| recovery_mode_clean_expired_keys | 2024-10-16 21:57:26 | 23 hours 58 minutes | 1 day |
| activitypub_cleanup_followers | 2024-10-16 21:57:27 | 23 hours 58 minutes | 1 day |
+------------------------------------+---------------------+-----------------------+------------+

For FediTest purposes, how can I get it to do this 1) immediately and 2) predictably so we know whether the message sending worked or failed?

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Plugin Author Matthias Pfefferle
(@pfefferle)

1 year, 7 months ago

Hey @johannesernst

the listed ActivityPub related tasks are cleanup tasks and are not responsible for sending out activities. The Activity-Crons are timed directly, but have to be processed. I will check what the best way might be to process them, or maybe implement a feature flag to directly process them (and to bypass the queue).

Thread Starter johannes.ernst
(@johannesernst)

1 year, 7 months ago

I tried to curl wp-cron.php but it is an uncertain business. Trying for 15 seconds usually gets it sent but not always.

Plugin Contributor Matt Wiebe
(@mattwiebe)

1 year, 6 months ago

We did add a very slight delay recently in this PR (to ensure that we don’t send posts marked as private):

https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-activitypub/pull/959

But it’s only 10 seconds into the future of the current time.

Note that it may also take a while for a remote service to process and display the post even after it’s been sent, depending on the remote server’s software and load.

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