### Author:  [@JonahAragon1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JonahAragon1)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2025, 7:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/local-activitypub-actors-are-being-created-without-keypairs/356834/1 "2025-03-08T07:42:36Z")
I can’t figure out how to get any posts to federate to Mastodon, I can follow the actors fine. I get these errors in the logs when Discourse attempts to deliver a post:
```plaintext
[Discourse Activity Pub] https://discuss.privacyguides.net/ap/actor/a93549c3c7883784eda700f30de0c96b failed to deliver to https://mstdn.party/users/staff/inbox --- !ruby/hash:ActiveSupport::HashWithIn
[Discourse Activity Pub] POST request to https://mastodon.neat.computer/users/jonah/inbox failed: Expected([200, 201, 202]) <=> Actual(401 Unauthorized)
[Discourse Activity Pub] https://discuss.privacyguides.net/ap/actor/227cc2ddaa4ded69c2a58214031da3ce failed to deliver to https://mastodon.neat.computer/users/jonah/inbox --- !ruby/hash:ActiveSupport:
[Discourse Activity Pub] POST request to https://mstdn.party/users/staff/inbox failed: Expected([200, 201, 202]) <=> Actual(401 Unauthorized)
```
I disabled `Activity pub require signed requests` and enabled logging in settings, otherwise all the settings are still their defaults. These Mastodon instances are behind Cloudflare but I can see Cloudflare is not blocking the requests, and the mastodon-web service logs show that Mastodon itself is returning the 401 codes (although I don’t know how to increase the verbosity of Mastodon’s logs to see why that’s the case).
Is there any reason this’d happen?
Edit: Mastodon doesn’t like the HTTP signatures, although this instance does _not_ have Authorized Fetch enabled:
```plaintext
Mar 08 16:47:07 neat-mastodon bundle[3119591]: D, [2025-03-08T16:47:07.963455 #3119591] DEBUG -- : [e6b2bc50-09e1-464e-a937-4c43ef32bd99] Signature verification failed: Request not signed
Mar 08 16:47:07 neat-mastodon bundle[3119591]: I, [2025-03-08T16:47:07.964520 #3119591] INFO -- : [e6b2bc50-09e1-464e-a937-4c43ef32bd99] method=POST path=/users/jonah/inbox format=html controller=ActivityPub::InboxesController action=create status=401 allocations=1256 duration=9.15 view=0.69 db=1.86
```
Edit 2: Seems like the inbox for my Discourse users are inaccessible: [https://verify.funfedi.dev/?actor\_uri=jonah%40discuss.privacyguides.net](https://verify.funfedi.dev/?actor_uri=jonah%40discuss.privacyguides.net)
```plaintext
"Resolving acct:jonah@discuss.privacyguides.net using webfinger",
"Resolved to https://discuss.privacyguides.net/ap/actor/227cc2ddaa4ded69c2a58214031da3ce",
"Running verification for alice",
"Got inbox None", [...]
```
It _does_ work as expected for the group actor: [https://verify.funfedi.dev/?actor\_uri=articles%40discuss.privacyguides.net](https://verify.funfedi.dev/?actor_uri=articles%40discuss.privacyguides.net) 🤔
Edit 3: for a GET request to `https://discuss.privacyguides.net/ap/actor/227cc2ddaa4ded69c2a58214031da3ce`
```plaintext
{
"id": "https://discuss.privacyguides.net/ap/actor/227cc2ddaa4ded69c2a58214031da3ce",
"type": "Person",
"updated": "2025-03-08T06:34:19Z",
"url": "https://discuss.privacyguides.net/u/jonah",
"name": "Jonah Aragon",
"inbox": null,
"outbox": null,
"sharedInbox": "https://discuss.privacyguides.net/ap/users/inbox",
"followers": "https://discuss.privacyguides.net/ap/actor/227cc2ddaa4ded69c2a58214031da3ce/followers",
"preferredUsername": "jonah",
"icon": {
"type": "Image",
"mediaType": "image/png",
"url": "https://forum-cdn.privacyguides.net/user_avatar/discuss.privacyguides.net/jonah/96/8151_2.png"
},
"@context": "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams"
}
```
---
### Author:  [@angus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/angus)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2025, 10:50am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/local-activitypub-actors-are-being-created-without-keypairs/356834/2 "2025-03-11T10:50:01Z")
Hey @JonahAragon1, let’s see if we can figure it out.
> [@JonahAragon1](#):
>
> I disabled `Activity pub require signed requests`
Did you disable this before or after testing? If before, try enabling it.
More broadly, I’ve been meaning to add better error response message logging to make it easier to diagnose different cases. To that end, I’ve raised a PR
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse-activity-pub/pull/187](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-activity-pub/pull/187)
If you could have another go when that’s merged and share the same logs.
---
### Author:  [@JonahAragon1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JonahAragon1)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2025, 4:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/local-activitypub-actors-are-being-created-without-keypairs/356834/3 "2025-03-11T16:46:27Z")
I do have this setting enabled again now that I identified the issue as the user inboxes not being created. I’ll update the plugin now 👍
---
### Author:  [@angus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/angus)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2025, 5:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/local-activitypub-actors-are-being-created-without-keypairs/356834/4 "2025-03-11T17:22:07Z")
Person Actors of Discourse Users are not meant to have individual inboxes currently. Mastodon uses and understands the `sharedInbox`. There’s something else going on.
---
### Author:  [@JonahAragon1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JonahAragon1)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2025, 5:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/local-activitypub-actors-are-being-created-without-keypairs/356834/5 "2025-03-11T17:31:30Z")
Besides logging all settings are back to their defaults:
```plaintext
[Discourse Activity Pub] POST request to https://mastodon.neat.computer/users/jonah/inbox failed: {"error":"Request not signed"}
```
> **backtrace**
>
> ```plaintext
> activesupport-7.2.2.1/lib/active_support/broadcast_logger.rb:130:in `block in warn'
>
> activesupport-7.2.2.1/lib/active_support/broadcast_logger.rb:231:in `block in dispatch'
>
> activesupport-7.2.2.1/lib/active_support/broadcast_logger.rb:231:in `each'
>
> activesupport-7.2.2.1/lib/active_support/broadcast_logger.rb:231:in `dispatch'
>
> activesupport-7.2.2.1/lib/active_support/broadcast_logger.rb:130:in `warn'
>
> /var/www/discourse/plugins/discourse-activity-pub/lib/discourse_activity_pub/logger.rb:26:in `log'
>
> /var/www/discourse/plugins/discourse-activity-pub/lib/discourse_activity_pub/logger.rb:63:in `warn'
>
> /var/www/discourse/plugins/discourse-activity-pub/lib/discourse_activity_pub/request.rb:66:in `rescue in perform'
>
> /var/www/discourse/plugins/discourse-activity-pub/lib/discourse_activity_pub/request.rb:48:in `perform'
>
> /var/www/discourse/plugins/discourse-activity-pub/lib/discourse_activity_pub/request.rb:44:in `post_json_ld'
>
> /var/www/discourse/plugins/discourse-activity-pub/app/jobs/discourse_activity_pub_deliver.rb:34:in `perform_request'
>
> /var/www/discourse/plugins/discourse-activity-pub/app/jobs/discourse_activity_pub_deliver.rb:15:in `execute'
>
> /var/www/discourse/app/jobs/base.rb:316:in `block (2 levels) in perform'
>
> rails_multisite-6.1.0/lib/rails_multisite/connection_management/null_instance.rb:49:in `with_connection'
> rails_multisite-6.1.0/lib/rails_multisite/connection_management.rb:21:in `with_connection'
> /var/www/discourse/app/jobs/base.rb:303:in `block in perform'
>
> /var/www/discourse/app/jobs/base.rb:299:in `each'
>
> /var/www/discourse/app/jobs/base.rb:299:in `perform'
>
> sidekiq-7.3.9/lib/sidekiq/processor.rb:220:in `execute_job'
>
> sidekiq-7.3.9/lib/sidekiq/processor.rb:185:in `block (4 levels) in process'
>
> sidekiq-7.3.9/lib/sidekiq/middleware/chain.rb:180:in `traverse'
>
> sidekiq-7.3.9/lib/sidekiq/middleware/chain.rb:183:in `block in traverse'
>
> /var/www/discourse/lib/sidekiq/pausable.rb:132:in `call'
>
> sidekiq-7.3.9/lib/sidekiq/middleware/chain.rb:182:in `traverse'
>
> sidekiq-7.3.9/lib/sidekiq/middleware/chain.rb:183:in `block in traverse'
>
> sidekiq-7.3.9/lib/sidekiq/job/interrupt_handler.rb:9:in `call'
>
> sidekiq-7.3.9/lib/sidekiq/middleware/chain.rb:182:in `traverse'
>
> sidekiq-7.3.9/lib/sidekiq/middleware/chain.rb:183:in `block in traverse'
>
> sidekiq-7.3.9/lib/sidekiq/metrics/tracking.rb:26:in `track'
>
> sidekiq-7.3.9/lib/sidekiq/metrics/tracking.rb:134:in `call'
>
> sidekiq-7.3.9/lib/sidekiq/middleware/chain.rb:182:in `traverse'
>
> sidekiq-7.3.9/lib/sidekiq/middleware/chain.rb:173:in `invoke'
>
> sidekiq-7.3.9/lib/sidekiq/processor.rb:184:in `block (3 levels) in process'
>
> sidekiq-7.3.9/lib/sidekiq/processor.rb:145:in `block (6 levels) in dispatch'
>
> sidekiq-7.3.9/lib/sidekiq/job_retry.rb:118:in `local'
>
> sidekiq-7.3.9/lib/sidekiq/processor.rb:144:in `block (5 levels) in dispatch'
>
> sidekiq-7.3.9/lib/sidekiq/config.rb:39:in `block in '
>
> sidekiq-7.3.9/lib/sidekiq/processor.rb:139:in `block (4 levels) in dispatch'
>
> sidekiq-7.3.9/lib/sidekiq/processor.rb:281:in `stats'
>
> sidekiq-7.3.9/lib/sidekiq/processor.rb:134:in `block (3 levels) in dispatch'
>
> sidekiq-7.3.9/lib/sidekiq/job_logger.rb:15:in `call'
>
> sidekiq-7.3.9/lib/sidekiq/processor.rb:133:in `block (2 levels) in dispatch'
>
> sidekiq-7.3.9/lib/sidekiq/job_retry.rb:85:in `global'
>
> sidekiq-7.3.9/lib/sidekiq/processor.rb:132:in `block in dispatch'
>
> sidekiq-7.3.9/lib/sidekiq/job_logger.rb:40:in `prepare'
>
> sidekiq-7.3.9/lib/sidekiq/processor.rb:131:in `dispatch'
>
> sidekiq-7.3.9/lib/sidekiq/processor.rb:183:in `block (2 levels) in process'
>
> sidekiq-7.3.9/lib/sidekiq/processor.rb:182:in `handle_interrupt'
>
> sidekiq-7.3.9/lib/sidekiq/processor.rb:182:in `block in process'
>
> sidekiq-7.3.9/lib/sidekiq/processor.rb:181:in `handle_interrupt'
>
> sidekiq-7.3.9/lib/sidekiq/processor.rb:181:in `process'
>
> sidekiq-7.3.9/lib/sidekiq/processor.rb:86:in `process_one'
>
> sidekiq-7.3.9/lib/sidekiq/processor.rb:76:in `run'
>
> sidekiq-7.3.9/lib/sidekiq/component.rb:10:in `watchdog'
>
> sidekiq-7.3.9/lib/sidekiq/component.rb:19:in `block in safe_thread'
>
> ```
---
### Author:  [@angus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/angus)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2025, 5:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/local-activitypub-actors-are-being-created-without-keypairs/356834/6 "2025-03-11T17:35:48Z")
Hey, so it looks like the issue Mastodon has is that the request is not signed.
> [@JonahAragon1](#):
>
> Besides logging all settings are back to their defaults:
Are you sure that log entry was created after you re-enabled `Activity pub require signed requests`?
---
### Author:  [@JonahAragon1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JonahAragon1)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2025, 5:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/local-activitypub-actors-are-being-created-without-keypairs/356834/7 "2025-03-11T17:36:16Z")
That’s correct, yes.
---
### Author:  [@angus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/angus)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2025, 5:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/local-activitypub-actors-are-being-created-without-keypairs/356834/8 "2025-03-11T17:39:08Z")
Sorry to push on this, however Mastodon returns that error when there is no signature in the request headers at all, so it seems unlikely that `Activity pub require signed requests` was enabled when the request is sent. Could you triggering an entirely new `POST` request.
---
### Author:  [@angus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/angus)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2025, 5:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/local-activitypub-actors-are-being-created-without-keypairs/356834/9 "2025-03-11T17:40:27Z")
Ah, I think the issue is that Cloudflare is stripping the headers from the request.
---
### Author:  [@JonahAragon1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JonahAragon1)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2025, 5:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/local-activitypub-actors-are-being-created-without-keypairs/356834/10 "2025-03-11T17:41:42Z")
Yes, this is the error with the settings at their defaults and that setting enabled.
```plaintext
[Discourse Activity Pub] POST request to https://mstdn.party/users/staff/inbox failed: {"error":"Request not signed"}
10:40 am
[Discourse Activity Pub] https://discuss.privacyguides.net/ap/actor/227cc2ddaa4ded69c2a58214031da3ce failed to deliver to https://mstdn.party/users/staff/inbox --- !ruby/hash:ActiveSupport::HashWithIn
10:40 am
[Discourse Activity Pub] POST request to https://mastodon.neat.computer/users/jonah/inbox failed: {"error":"Request not signed"}
10:40 am
[Discourse Activity Pub] https://discuss.privacyguides.net/ap/actor/227cc2ddaa4ded69c2a58214031da3ce failed to deliver to https://mastodon.neat.computer/users/jonah/inbox --- !ruby/hash:ActiveSupport:
10:40 am
[Discourse Activity Pub] POST request to https://social.lol/users/jonah/inbox failed: {"error":"Request not signed"}
10:40 am
[Discourse Activity Pub] https://discuss.privacyguides.net/ap/actor/227cc2ddaa4ded69c2a58214031da3ce failed to deliver to https://social.lol/users/jonah/inbox --- !ruby/hash:ActiveSupport::HashWithInd
```
(I’ll note social.lol is not behind Cloudflare nor is the forum)
Edit: if you want to follow `@videos@discuss.privacyguides.net` from a Mastodon account you know works let me know and I can resend a post from the forum.
---
### Author:  [@angus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/angus)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2025, 5:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/local-activitypub-actors-are-being-created-without-keypairs/356834/11 "2025-03-11T17:55:08Z")
Ok, please create a new post with that actor.
---
### Author:  [@JonahAragon1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JonahAragon1)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2025, 6:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/local-activitypub-actors-are-being-created-without-keypairs/356834/12 "2025-03-11T18:03:21Z")
Did you receive the posts correctly? Seems like you might’ve.
```plaintext
2
[Discourse Activity Pub] POST request to https://angus.ngrok.io/ap/actor/0eafb34c67153d61db44234de294a98d/inbox failed: {"errors":["Request not signed"]}
10:56 am
2
[Discourse Activity Pub] https://discuss.privacyguides.net/ap/actor/227cc2ddaa4ded69c2a58214031da3ce failed to deliver to https://angus.ngrok.io/ap/actor/0eafb34c67153d61db44234de294a98d/inbox --- !ru
10:56 am
[Discourse Activity Pub] https://discuss.privacyguides.net/ap/actor/705b7513d0446e001d7f750115e6395f successfully delivered to https://mstdn.party/users/staff/inbox --- !ruby/hash:ActiveSupport::HashW
11:00 am
[Discourse Activity Pub] https://discuss.privacyguides.net/ap/actor/705b7513d0446e001d7f750115e6395f successfully delivered to https://social.lol/users/jonah/inbox --- !ruby/hash:ActiveSupport::HashWi
11:00 am
[Discourse Activity Pub] https://discuss.privacyguides.net/ap/actor/705b7513d0446e001d7f750115e6395f successfully delivered to https://mastodon.neat.computer/users/jonah/inbox --- !ruby/hash:ActiveSup
11:00 am
3
[Discourse Activity Pub] https://discuss.privacyguides.net/ap/actor/227cc2ddaa4ded69c2a58214031da3ce failed to deliver to https://mstdn.party/users/staff/inbox --- !ruby/hash:ActiveSupport::HashWithIn
11:01 am
3
[Discourse Activity Pub] https://discuss.privacyguides.net/ap/actor/227cc2ddaa4ded69c2a58214031da3ce failed to deliver to https://social.lol/users/jonah/inbox --- !ruby/hash:ActiveSupport::HashWithInd
11:01 am
3
[Discourse Activity Pub] https://discuss.privacyguides.net/ap/actor/227cc2ddaa4ded69c2a58214031da3ce failed to deliver to https://mastodon.neat.computer/users/jonah/inbox --- !ruby/hash:ActiveSupport:
11:01 am
2
[Discourse Activity Pub] https://discuss.privacyguides.net/ap/actor/227cc2ddaa4ded69c2a58214031da3ce failed to deliver to https://mstdn.party/users/staff/inbox --- !ruby/hash:ActiveSupport::HashWithIn
11:01 am
2
[Discourse Activity Pub] https://discuss.privacyguides.net/ap/actor/227cc2ddaa4ded69c2a58214031da3ce failed to deliver to https://mastodon.neat.computer/users/jonah/inbox --- !ruby/hash:ActiveSupport:
11:01 am
2
[Discourse Activity Pub] https://discuss.privacyguides.net/ap/actor/227cc2ddaa4ded69c2a58214031da3ce failed to deliver to https://social.lol/users/jonah/inbox --- !ruby/hash:ActiveSupport::HashWithInd
11:01 am
[Discourse Activity Pub] https://discuss.privacyguides.net/ap/actor/227cc2ddaa4ded69c2a58214031da3ce successfully delivered to https://angus.ngrok.io/ap/actor/0eafb34c67153d61db44234de294a98d/inbox --
11:01 am
[Discourse Activity Pub] https://discuss.privacyguides.net/ap/actor/227cc2ddaa4ded69c2a58214031da3ce successfully delivered to https://angus.ngrok.io/ap/actor/0eafb34c67153d61db44234de294a98d/inbox --
11:01 am
[Discourse Activity Pub] https://discuss.privacyguides.net/ap/actor/705b7513d0446e001d7f750115e6395f successfully delivered to https://angus.ngrok.io/ap/actor/0eafb34c67153d61db44234de294a98d/inbox --
11:01 am
[Discourse Activity Pub] https://discuss.privacyguides.net/ap/actor/a93549c3c7883784eda700f30de0c96b successfully delivered to https://angus.ngrok.io/ap/actor/0eafb34c67153d61db44234de294a98d/inbox --
11:02 am
2
[Discourse Activity Pub] https://discuss.privacyguides.net/ap/actor/a93549c3c7883784eda700f30de0c96b failed to deliver to https://mstdn.party/users/staff/inbox --- !ruby/hash:ActiveSupport::HashWithIn
11:02 am
2
[Discourse Activity Pub] https://discuss.privacyguides.net/ap/actor/a93549c3c7883784eda700f30de0c96b failed to deliver to https://mastodon.neat.computer/users/jonah/inbox --- !ruby/hash:ActiveSupport:
11:02 am
2
[Discourse Activity Pub] https://discuss.privacyguides.net/ap/actor/a93549c3c7883784eda700f30de0c96b failed to deliver to https://social.lol/users/jonah/inbox --- !ruby/hash:ActiveSupport::HashWithInd
11:02 am
15
[Discourse Activity Pub] POST request to https://mastodon.neat.computer/users/jonah/inbox failed: {"error":"Request not signed"}
11:02 am
12
[Discourse Activity Pub] POST request to https://social.lol/users/jonah/inbox failed: {"error":"Request not signed"}
11:02 am
[Discourse Activity Pub] https://discuss.privacyguides.net/ap/actor/227cc2ddaa4ded69c2a58214031da3ce failed to deliver to https://mastodon.neat.computer/users/jonah/inbox --- !ruby/hash:ActiveSupport:
11:02 am
[Discourse Activity Pub] https://discuss.privacyguides.net/ap/actor/227cc2ddaa4ded69c2a58214031da3ce failed to deliver to https://social.lol/users/jonah/inbox --- !ruby/hash:ActiveSupport::HashWithInd
11:02 am
[Discourse Activity Pub] POST request to https://angus.ngrok.io/ap/actor/0eafb34c67153d61db44234de294a98d/inbox failed: The endpoint angus.ngrok.io is offline. ERR_NGROK_3200
11:02 am
[Discourse Activity Pub] https://discuss.privacyguides.net/ap/actor/227cc2ddaa4ded69c2a58214031da3ce failed to deliver to https://angus.ngrok.io/ap/actor/0eafb34c67153d61db44234de294a98d/inbox --- !ru
11:02 am
16
[Discourse Activity Pub] POST request to https://mstdn.party/users/staff/inbox failed: {"error":"Request not signed"}
11:02 am
2
[Discourse Activity Pub] https://discuss.privacyguides.net/ap/actor/227cc2ddaa4ded69c2a58214031da3ce failed to deliver to https://mstdn.party/users/staff/inbox --- !ruby/hash:ActiveSupport::HashWithIn
11:02 am
```
---
### Author:  [@angus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/angus)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2025, 6:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/local-activitypub-actors-are-being-created-without-keypairs/356834/13 "2025-03-11T18:45:48Z")
Note that @JonahAragon1 and I discussed this via chat and the issue is that local User Actors are somehow being created without keypairs.
>
@JonahAragon1 I will test a few things and get back to you.
---
### Author:  [@angus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/angus)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2025, 8:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/local-activitypub-actors-are-being-created-without-keypairs/356834/14 "2025-03-11T20:19:46Z")
Hey @JonahAragon1,
Are there any differences between these users on your forum, anything that comes to mind
Keys were created for the actors for `Shampoo` and `Bhaelros` but not `basenote` and `jonah`. Are there any common differences between those two groups of users on your site?
---
### Author:  [@JonahAragon1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JonahAragon1)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2025, 8:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/local-activitypub-actors-are-being-created-without-keypairs/356834/15 "2025-03-11T20:37:16Z")
Hm, no. I can’t think of any reason for this. While `jonah` is an admin the rest are normal users.
> **misc.**
>
> `Bhaelros` and `basenote` are both Trust Level 3 Regulars so they should be the same.
>
> Weird that `Shampoo` also has inbox/outbox generated while `basenote` and `jonah` did not, so neither `ensure_keys` nor `ensure_inbox_and_outbox` are working?:
>
> `GET https://discuss.privacyguides.net/ap/actor/310a0986b6bf613b61ca5e85a8521ecb`
>
> ```plaintext
> {
> "id": "https://discuss.privacyguides.net/ap/actor/310a0986b6bf613b61ca5e85a8521ecb",
> "type": "Person",
> "updated": "2025-03-11T17:58:08Z",
> "url": "https://discuss.privacyguides.net/u/Shampoo",
> "inbox": "https://discuss.privacyguides.net/ap/actor/310a0986b6bf613b61ca5e85a8521ecb/inbox",
> "outbox": "https://discuss.privacyguides.net/ap/actor/310a0986b6bf613b61ca5e85a8521ecb/outbox",
> "sharedInbox": "https://discuss.privacyguides.net/ap/users/inbox",
> "followers": "https://discuss.privacyguides.net/ap/actor/310a0986b6bf613b61ca5e85a8521ecb/followers",
> "preferredUsername": "Shampoo",
> "publicKey": {
> "id": "https://discuss.privacyguides.net/ap/actor/310a0986b6bf613b61ca5e85a8521ecb#main-key",
> "owner": "https://discuss.privacyguides.net/ap/actor/310a0986b6bf613b61ca5e85a8521ecb",
> "publicKeyPem": "-----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-----\nMIIBIjANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAAOCAQ8AMIIBCgKCAQEAleqeCRZW1utTN/L5GjkY\n+2Baron4FnSKRMKW70IWfqI4rs8dfh2xhKW5qXxaBPhXf13FAOJvQvFhQ90eqRrn\nKkuMsntZN0dfpDUZ3E0iIp8fuUEVk2PmquLziiy9+zu8n5ak65lJKDYnKVtFth5G\nFJyUt6GYicY8UlUh6dPxafJ/gw6YTlvT3hO0X0H0L+hYwqHJpppl6niSDi6WQzME\nWM1hyBpv2Y2NspEexrkSVh+SIR3nJ8J1R+o+2bLJ4Hl34nYhtNyTy9AOddoQYDMw\nICZAkCLQDweid50fGakWmRB5EXfL6s2EdzEh8MOE7cyCOXgFrxTJYUTwg5TiLEQY\npQIDAQAB\n-----END PUBLIC KEY-----\n"
> },
> "icon": {
> "type": "Image",
> "mediaType": "image/png",
> "url": "https://forum-cdn.privacyguides.net/user_avatar/discuss.privacyguides.net/shampoo/96/4073_2.png"
> },
> "@context": "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams"
> }
>
> ```
>
> `GET https://discuss.privacyguides.net/ap/actor/a93549c3c7883784eda700f30de0c96b`
>
> ```plaintext
> {
> "id": "https://discuss.privacyguides.net/ap/actor/a93549c3c7883784eda700f30de0c96b",
> "type": "Person",
> "updated": "2025-03-08T06:34:19Z",
> "url": "https://discuss.privacyguides.net/u/basenote",
> "inbox": null,
> "outbox": null,
> "sharedInbox": "https://discuss.privacyguides.net/ap/users/inbox",
> "followers": "https://discuss.privacyguides.net/ap/actor/a93549c3c7883784eda700f30de0c96b/followers",
> "preferredUsername": "basenote",
> "icon": {
> "type": "Image",
> "mediaType": "image/png",
> "url": "https://forum-cdn.privacyguides.net/user_avatar/discuss.privacyguides.net/basenote/96/15_2.png"
> },
> "@context": "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams"
> }
>
> ```
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### Author:  [@angus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/angus)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2025, 10:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/local-activitypub-actors-are-being-created-without-keypairs/356834/16 "2025-03-11T22:11:41Z")
I’m still not sure how these actors ended up in this state. It is specific to your site. As a general matter, actor key and inbox/outbox creation works as expected. Nevertheless, this update should ensure such a situation is resolved as needed:
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse-activity-pub/pull/188](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-activity-pub/pull/188)
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### Author:  [@angus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/angus)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2025, 2:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/local-activitypub-actors-are-being-created-without-keypairs/356834/17 "2025-03-12T14:32:10Z")
@JonahAragon1 The PR is merged. Could you try updating and let me know how you go?
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### Author:  [@JonahAragon1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JonahAragon1)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2025, 11:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/local-activitypub-actors-are-being-created-without-keypairs/356834/18 "2025-03-14T23:01:39Z")
This specific issue seems to have been fixed, although I still seem to be running into general issues getting posts to show up on Mastodon.
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### Author:  [@angus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/angus)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2025, 8:15am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/local-activitypub-actors-are-being-created-without-keypairs/356834/19 "2025-03-17T08:15:18Z")
Could you share some more details?
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### Author:  [@JonahAragon1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JonahAragon1)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2025, 3:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/local-activitypub-actors-are-being-created-without-keypairs/356834/20 "2025-03-17T15:59:50Z")
Yeah, I’ll reply or make a new post later this week, I’m just away at the moment.
The main issues I’m seeing are posts not showing up as boosts by the category actor (_sometimes_ I can find them on Mastodon by manually searching for the user actor), and forum posts just not being published to AP in the first place. I am also having trouble following new category actors now, which wasn’t an issue before. If I look [here](https://discuss.privacyguides.net/ap/local/actor/70/followers) it says no results found under followers.
I have noticed a lot of posts here on Meta in AP-enabled categories show up with indicators that they aren’t published to AP too (like this post), so maybe I just don’t understand how this is supposed to work…
I’m not getting obvious errors in logs for any of this, you would _think_ everything is working fine based on the successful log notifications. It’s all stuff I just will have to look into further when I have more time.
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