# How to debug connectivity issues with ActivityPub

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-debug-connectivity-issues-with-activitypub/345798
**Category:** Administrators
**Tags:** activitypub
**Created:** [January 6, 2025, 9:38am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-debug-connectivity-issues-with-activitypub/345798 "2025-01-06T09:38:44Z")
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### Author: ![Jagster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jagster/32/192154_2.png) [@Jagster](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jagster)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2025, 10:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-debug-connectivity-issues-with-activitypub/345798/6 "2025-01-06T10:09:32Z")

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I don’t know how it’s working.

> [@Geo Blocking plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/geo-blocking-plugin/227824):
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I can do rebuilding without it and give a try. But I don’t totally understand how it could affect when everything else is working 🤔

> [@angus](#):
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> `activity pub require signed requests`

I already tried that. Mainly because AFAIK most of instances don’t use it. It didn’t help, though. But I disable it. Is it same thing that Mastodon servers have a setting for?

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