A post whose author cannot be shown is left out of a list, never a 500

The v1.19.0 deploy's tests failed where build.yml's passed. A test stored a public remote post with no author id, and when the public timeline test ran after it, MastodonMapper.Statuses looked that null up in its accounts and answered 500. The mapper now skips such a post, and the test stores a real author. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01ELjqpznMFMNrJoJUj6K5p2
Everything on, phase 2 completed: SecureMode on in production, checked by the deploy
2026-10-04 03:46:48 +02:00 · 2026-10-04 03:34:48 +02:00 · 2026-10-04 03:16:59 +02:00 · 2026-10-04 03:01:14 +02:00 · 2026-10-04 02:37:38 +02:00 · 2026-10-03 15:35:14 +02:00
86 changed files with 2825 additions and 459 deletions
@@ -90,13 +90,16 @@ jobs:
          fi

      - name: Verify what is being served
-        env:
-          SMOKE_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.PRIVAPUB_SMOKE_TOKEN }}
        run: |
          served=$(curl -fsS "$PUBLIC_URL/build.json" | python3 -c "import json,sys; print(json.load(sys.stdin).get('commit',''))")
          [ "$served" = "$BUILD_COMMIT" ] || { echo "::error::served build is '$served', expected '$BUILD_COMMIT'"; exit 1; }
          code=$(curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' -H 'Accept: application/activity+json' "$PUBLIC_URL/peasants/privapub")
          [ "$code" = "200" ] || { echo "::error::the instance actor answered $code"; exit 1; }
+          # SecureMode (owner decision 2026-10-04): an unsigned reader gets 401 from a persona, a browser the public page
+          code=$(curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' -H 'Accept: application/activity+json' "$PUBLIC_URL/peasants/thepra")
+          [ "$code" = "401" ] || { echo "::error::an unsigned GET of a persona answered $code, not 401: SecureMode is off"; exit 1; }
+          code=$(curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' -H 'Accept: text/html' "$PUBLIC_URL/peasants/thepra")
+          [ "$code" = "302" ] || { echo "::error::a browser asking for a persona got $code, not a redirect"; exit 1; }
          code=$(curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' "$PUBLIC_URL/.well-known/nodeinfo")
          [ "$code" = "200" ] || { echo "::error::nodeinfo answered $code"; exit 1; }
          code=$(curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' "$PUBLIC_URL/swagger/index.html")
@@ -106,6 +109,39 @@ jobs:
          code=$(curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/activity+json' \
            --data '{"type":"Follow","actor":"https://example.org/users/x","object":"'"$PUBLIC_URL"'/peasants/privapub"}' "$PUBLIC_URL/human-centipede")
          [ "$code" = "401" ] || { echo "::error::an unsigned inbox POST answered $code"; exit 1; }
-          tools/smoke/mastodon-api.sh "$PUBLIC_URL" "$SMOKE_TOKEN"
-          [ -n "$SMOKE_TOKEN" ] || echo "::warning::PRIVAPUB_SMOKE_TOKEN is not set, so the signed-in API was not checked"
+          tools/smoke/mastodon-api.sh "$PUBLIC_URL"
+          open=$(curl -fsS "$PUBLIC_URL/nodeinfo/2.1" | python3 -c "import json,sys; print(json.load(sys.stdin)['openRegistrations'])")
+          enabled=$(curl -fsS "$PUBLIC_URL/api/v2/instance" | python3 -c "import json,sys; print(json.load(sys.stdin)['registrations']['enabled'])")
+          [ "$open" = "$enabled" ] || { echo "::error::NodeInfo says registrations are $open, the instance API $enabled"; exit 1; }
+          curl -fsS "$PUBLIC_URL/stargazing" | grep -q 'The crawler is <strong>on</strong>' \
+            || { echo "::error::/stargazing does not say the crawler is on"; exit 1; }
          echo "::notice::serving $served"
+
+      # @thepra is the deploy's own persona (owner decision, 2026-10-04): the server's CLI makes or keeps it, undiscoverable,
+      # and gives its root a new password on every deploy, so no secret is stored and nobody has to create anything.
+      - name: Sign in as @thepra and check the signed-in API
+        run: |
+          creds=$(cd "$WEB_ROOT" && ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT=Production ./PrivaPub admin smoke thepra | grep -E '^deploy-smoke [^ ]+$' | tail -1)
+          [ -n "$creds" ] || { echo "::error::the smoke persona could not be prepared"; exit 1; }
+          read -r login password <<< "$creds"
+          echo "::add-mask::$password"
+          read -r token cid cs <<< "$(tools/smoke/oauth.sh "$PUBLIC_URL" "$login" "$password" thepra read)"
+          echo "::add-mask::$token"
+          tools/smoke/mastodon-api.sh "$PUBLIC_URL" "$token"
+          discoverable=$(curl -fsS -H "Authorization: Bearer $token" "$PUBLIC_URL/api/v1/accounts/verify_credentials" | python3 -c "import json,sys; print(json.load(sys.stdin).get('discoverable'))")
+          [ "$discoverable" = "False" ] || { echo "::error::@thepra is discoverable"; exit 1; }
+          curl -fsS -o /dev/null -X POST "$PUBLIC_URL/oauth/revoke" --data-urlencode "token=$token" \
+            --data-urlencode "client_id=$cid" --data-urlencode "client_secret=$cs"
+          echo "::notice::signed in as @thepra"
+
+      # The server fetches DB-IP Lite itself (GeoUpdater) about 30 s after it starts and then daily; the deploy only checks.
+      - name: Geolocation databases are current
+        run: |
+          for kind in city asn; do
+            db="/var/lib/privapub/geo/dbip-$kind-lite.mmdb"
+            for i in $(seq 1 60); do [ -s "$db" ] && break; sleep 10; done
+            [ -s "$db" ] || { echo "::error::$db is missing: the server has not fetched DB-IP Lite"; exit 1; }
+            days=$(( ($(date +%s) - $(stat -c %Y "$db")) / 86400 ))
+            [ "$days" -le 40 ] || { echo "::error::$db was installed $days days ago"; exit 1; }
+          done
+          curl -fsS "$PUBLIC_URL/stargazing" | grep -o 'DB-IP Lite [0-9-]*' | head -1 | sed 's/^/::notice::locating with /'
@@ -136,18 +136,27 @@ curl-able. Outbound fetches only go to https DNS names resolving to public addre
 `Federation__AllowPrivateNetworks=true`, `Federation__AllowPlainHttp=true` and `Federation__AcceptAnyCertificate=true`,
 which startup refuses in Production.

-Promoting an admin on the box (signing up as "admin" grants nothing):
+The admin CLI runs with every service built but nothing started (no Kestrel, no hosted services), so it can run next to
+the live service. Sign-up is closed in production (invitations only), so the first login is made here; promoting is how
+an admin is made (signing up as "admin" grants nothing):

 ```bash
-cd /var/www/privapub.thepra.dev && sudo -u www-data ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT=Production ./PrivaPub admin promote <root>
+cd /var/www/privapub.thepra.dev
+echo '<password>' | ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT=Production ./PrivaPub admin create-root <login> --admin   # password on stdin
+ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT=Production ./PrivaPub admin promote|demote <root>
+ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT=Production ./PrivaPub admin smoke <persona>     # the deploy's: prints "deploy-smoke <new password>"
 ```

+The deploy runs them as `build-runner`, which owns the published files, reads `appsettings.Production.json` through
+group www-data and reaches the private mongod; `sudo -u www-data` works too.
+
 ## Federation invariants

 1. **Every outbound request goes through `IFederationHttp`.** Its handler resolves the name itself and connects only
   to public addresses; redirects are followed by hand (three at most, each re-checked); bodies are capped at 1 MB;
   only JSON media types are read; a refused URL is not asked again for five minutes. Never create another
-   `HttpClient` for federation.
+   `HttpClient` for federation. The only other outbound traffic is SMTP and `GeoUpdater`'s monthly DB-IP Lite download
+   (its own `geo` client, a fixed HTTPS host, size-capped, the file checked before it is swapped in).
 2. **Every fetch is signed by the instance actor** (`privapub`), never by a persona; deliveries are signed by the acting
   avatar or group. Both are draft-cavage rsa-sha256 over `(request-target) host date` (+ `digest` on bodies).
 3. **A remote document is believed only from its own address.** `RemoteActorService.FetchObject` requires the
@@ -173,8 +182,17 @@ cd /var/www/privapub.thepra.dev && sudo -u www-data ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT=Produ
   `ContentFormat` says what `Text` holds. Remote names are plain text.
 8. **Circles federate to members only.** A circle is an undiscoverable Group actor that takes follow requests (the owner
   approves); its posts are addressed to the circle and its `/flock`, delivered to members' personal inboxes, never
-   announced, and served only to a signed request from a member or a member's instance actor
-   (`SignedFetchAuthorizer`), 404 otherwise. Circles never appear in search, lookups, mentions or profile pages.
+   announced. Each member's copy also names that member in `cc` (`OutboxPublisher.Naming`, owner decision
+   2026-10-04), because Mastodon and GoToSocial keep a post only when it names one of their accounts; Create, every
+   Update and the Delete all go through `OutboxPublisher.Publish` for that. A reply to a circle post stays in the circle,
+   and a circle post never asks a non-member for a quote. Circles never appear in search, lookups, mentions or profile
+   pages.
+   **A post that is not public is served only to a signed request from someone it was for** (`SignedFetchAuthorizer.MayRead`):
+   a follower or an addressed account for followers-only, an addressed account for a DM, a member for a circle, or the
+   instance actor of a server where one of them lives; 404 to anyone else, 410 to them once it is deleted. A circle
+   refetch names the requesting member, or the members on the requesting server. A DM's `context`
+   (`/peasants/{name}/whispers/{id}`) lists the conversation's posts for its participants. Mastodon deletes its copy
+   when a refetch answers 404, which is why this matters.
   **Communities** are FEP-1b12 groups: `GroupDistributor` announces the whole activity (plus the object for new posts,
   for Mastodon), top-level posts are `Page`s with a `name`, posting follows `Group.PostingPolicy`.
   Located posts (`LocalGeo`) are the only local-only posts.
@@ -234,6 +252,16 @@ cd /var/www/privapub.thepra.dev && sudo -u www-data ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT=Produ

 - **No root id in federation output, NodeInfo or logs, no IP next to an identity in logs, and no `ex.Message` to a
  client** ("Something went wrong." instead).
+- **Sign-in and recovery never tell which logins or addresses exist** (owner decision 2026-10-04): every failed sign-in
+  gets "That username and password do not match." after the same hashing (`RootUsersService.Decoy`, a constant-time
+  comparison), and only a correct password learns of a ban. Every recovery request answers the same sentence and
+  queues a `SendRecovery` job, found or not; `RecoveryJob` sends the email and keeps only a SHA-256 of the code, for an
+  hour. A recovered password ends every session of the root (`RootSessions`: `CredentialsChangedAt` for `/clientapi`
+  JWTs, OpenIddict revocation for each persona).
+- **Deleting a root deletes everything public it had** (`RootRemoval`, from the admin route or `/clientapi/user/delete`
+  with the password): its sessions end, each persona and each group it owns sends `Delete{Actor}` to followers, members
+  and the accounts it follows, the personas' posts are emptied, and `/peasants/{name}`, its inbox and WebFinger answer
+  410 (`LocalActorService.Gone`) while the names stay reserved. The root keeps only a `deleted-{id}` name.
 - **Never derive a public name from the root username.** Invitation sign-up takes `AvatarUserName` and refuses one
  equal to the login.
 - **One username space:** personas, groups and the instance reserve their name in `ReservedName` (unique index) before
@@ -281,13 +309,15 @@ cd /var/www/privapub.thepra.dev && sudo -u www-data ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT=Produ
  array; Markdown `content`; missing `mediaType`s inferred; thumbnails from any of their five places; and the typed
  `Link`, `Video`, `Audio` and `Event` details. A Mastodon API card is built from those, never by fetching the linked page
  (that fetch is the owner's decision 1, for P6).
- **An `Update` is an edit only when its `updated` is newer than ours** (`RemoteEdits.IsEdit`; plain and community-wrapped
+- **An `Update` is an edit only when its `updated` is newer than ours**, or for a first edit no older and with the text
+  actually changed, since GoToSocial's whole-second timestamps make a quick edit carry `updated == published` (`RemoteEdits.IsEdit`; plain and community-wrapped
  Updates both go through `RemoteEdits.Apply`, and deletes through `RemoteDeletes.Remove`). Otherwise it refreshes
  the poll, video, audio and event details and nothing else, and leaves no revision: Mastodon and Misskey refresh poll
  counts with bare Updates.
 - **A poll vote is a `Note` with a `name`, an `inReplyTo` that is a poll we hold, and no content.** `CreateHandler`
  hands it to `PollService.Receive` before anything else, so it never becomes a reply. Our votes on other servers' polls
-  go only to the poll's author, without `published` (PieFed counts a vote only then).
+  go only to the poll's author, without `published` (PieFed counts a vote only then). A `closed` in the future is the
+  poll's end, not its closing: Akkoma sends an open poll's end only there (`ObjectShapes`).
 - **Link previews follow owner decision 1** (`Domain/Content/LinkPreviews.cs`): only public posts, queued on arrival with
  0–60 s of jitter, one cached `LinkPreview` per address for the whole server, never fetched when someone reads.
  `LinkPreviews.Wanted` is called where posts are saved (`CreateHandler`, `StoreContext`, `StatusService.Publish`).
@@ -401,14 +431,41 @@ tools/pasture/run.sh down                                            # removes e
    delete is checked as a 404 on `/api/v1/statuses/{id}`.
  - It creates its accounts locked, so the scenario approves alice's request through `/api/v1/follow_requests`, which
    also checks our pending (`requested`) state and the manual Accept.
-  - 37 checks: discovery and follows both ways; posts and CW; a reply and its notification; likes and boosts both
+  - 55 checks: discovery and follows both ways; posts and CW; a reply and its notification; likes and boosts both
    ways; DMs both ways and off public timelines; polls both ways; quote policy; link cards; edits and deletes both
-    ways; unfollow; block and unblock; statistics.
+    ways; communities and circles; locked personas; unfollow; block and unblock; statistics.
+  - It files a circle post as a direct message and shows it only to the accounts it mentions, so like a DM it is
+    checked in the member's `/api/v1/conversations`, never by URI.
 - **Mastodon (4.7.3):** web and sidekiq on the shared Postgres and Redis, `ALLOWED_PRIVATE_ADDRESSES` for the network.
  Its token comes from `rails runner` (no password grant). Without Elasticsearch its status search finds nothing, so
  deliveries are checked through `/api/v1/accounts/:id/statuses` of the sender as Mastodon knows them, or
  `Status.exists?` through `rails runner`. Its actors are numbered (`/ap/users/<id>`), so look URIs up rather than
-  build them. 49 checks; circle posts are an expected failure (see `docs/INTEROP.md`, Mastodon).
+  build them. Circle posts and a followers-only post survive its signed refetch (`ActivityPub::FetchRemoteStatusService`
+  through `rails runner`). Inbound Block is the one expected failure until P7.
+- **Misskey (2026.10.0):** one container on the shared Postgres and Redis. A new Misskey federates with nobody
+  (`federation: none`) until `admin/update-meta` says `all`, which `misskey_up` does. Its API is `POST /api/<endpoint>`
+  with the token as `i` (`mk` in the scenario); `users/relation` answers a list, `users/notes` leaves replies out unless
+  asked, and a user has one reaction per note. Never verify a delivery with `ap/show`: it fetches. 35 checks.
+- **Sharkey (2025.4.7):** `peers/sharkey.sh` is the Misskey peer under another name, image, database, Redis db and
+  home (`/sharkey/.config`); `scenarios/sharkey.sh` runs Misskey's scenario with `MISSKEY_NAME=sharkey`, then follows
+  again (Misskey's ends unfollowed and blocked) and checks edits both ways and the FEP-e232 quote tag. 40 checks.
+- **Akkoma (3.20.1):** no official image, so `images/akkoma` installs the OTP release (pinned by checksum; the "stable"
+  zip moves, and a moved one fails the build) and `akkoma_up` builds it once. Its HTTP clients read the CA bundles
+  shipped in the release (CAStore, certifi), so the entrypoint appends Caddy's CA there. `pleroma_ctl` passes its
+  arguments on unquoted: no value may contain a space. Its Linkify never takes `@user@host.test` for a mention, so the
+  scenario addresses alice with Pleroma's `to[]`; its API never reports a remote blocker as `blocked_by`, so the block is
+  read from its `user_relationships`. 44 checks.
+- **Lemmy (1.0.0-beta.2):** the backend alone on the shared Postgres, its admin made by `setup` in the generated
+  `config.hjson`. It trusts Caddy's CA through `SSL_CERT_FILE` and reaches the network through
+  `DANGER_FEDERATION_ALLOW_LOCAL_IP=1`; 0.19 cannot join (its rustls trusts only its bundled roots). Its API is
+  `/api/v4/<path>` with a bearer token (`lm` in the scenario), and `sort` values are lowercase. It logs no refused
+  activity at `warn` (`LEMMY_LOG` sets `RUST_LOG`); the reason is in the 400's body. It answers our community's echo of
+  its own activity and every bare `Announce{object}` 400 by design, and the echo is still needed (see
+  `docs/INTEROP.md`, Lemmy). A new Lemmy never sends what it queued for a server before its send worker for that
+  server started, so the scenario waits for that worker (`lm_worker`) before its first follow. 20 checks; relayed votes and a moderator's removal are expected failures (P7).
+- **SecureMode:** `PRIVAPUB_ENV="Federation__SecureMode=true" run.sh up …`, as production runs. A check of what an
+  unsigned reader sees uses `unserved` and `gone_unsigned` (`lib/interop.sh`), which expect 401 when SecureMode is on and
+  404 or 410 when it is off.
 - **Crawler:** `PRIVAPUB_ENV="Statistics__Crawler__Enabled=true Statistics__Crawler__Seeds__0=mastodon.test"
  run.sh up mastodon`, then `interop.sh crawler`. `PRIVAPUB_ENV` passes any setting to the PrivaPub container.
 - `run.sh up` replaces every container, Mongo included, so each run starts clean. To keep the data, republish into
@@ -423,10 +480,17 @@ the owner's GoToSocial account.**
  `deploy.yml`: tests, self-contained linux-x64 publish, snapshot and `mongodump` to `/var/backups/privapub.thepra.dev`,
  stop → rsync → start, a `127.0.0.1:6970/build.json` health loop with rollback, then public checks (actor, NodeInfo,
  Swagger 404, inbox junk 400, unsigned 401) and `tools/smoke/mastodon-api.sh` (app registration, client credentials,
-  discovery, instance, public timeline; pass a persona token as a second argument to check the signed-in side).
+  discovery, instance, public timeline). Then it checks that what production should be running is running:
+  - NodeInfo and the instance API agree on registrations (closed, invitations only);
+  - `/stargazing` says the crawler is on;
+  - **@thepra signs in**: `PrivaPub admin smoke thepra` gives the root `deploy-smoke` a new password, `tools/smoke/oauth.sh`
+    runs the real OAuth flow (the pasture's `privapub_token` uses the same script), the signed-in API is checked, the
+    persona must be undiscoverable, and the token is revoked;
+  - the DB-IP Lite databases, which the server fetches itself (`GeoUpdater`), exist and are at most 40 days old.
 - **The box:** Max (`nuvola.xyz`). Unit `privapub` runs as www-data from `/var/www/privapub.thepra.dev` with
  `ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT=Production`.
- **One-time root setup:** `deploy/max/setup.sh`, run through `../arasaka.software/tools/max/run.sh`.
+- **One-time root setup:** `deploy/max/setup.sh`, run through `../arasaka.software/tools/max/run.sh` (directories, the
+  runner's sudoers line, the units, nginx and the certificate). Nothing that runs later needs it again.
 - **Config:** `appsettings.Production.json` is committed and deployed, **secrets included, by the owner's convention**
  (the same as arasaka.software). A hand edit on the box is lost at the next deploy.
 - **Secrets drift:** `AppConfigurationService` copies `AppConfiguration` into Mongo on first boot and reads the stored
@@ -73,8 +73,10 @@ A group is either a **community** or a **circle**.
  top-level post is a `Page` with a `name`. Members are counted at `/flock`; moderators are listed at `/wardens`, which
  the actor's `attributedTo` points to, with `postingRestrictedToMods` as Lemmy expects. A mention of a community posts into it.
 - A **circle** is private. Its actor is not discoverable and every follow is a request. Its posts are addressed to the
-  circle and its members collection, delivered to each member's own inbox and never announced. They are served only
-  to a signed request from a member, or from the instance actor of a member's server; anyone else gets 404. A
+  circle and its members collection, delivered to each member's own inbox and never announced. Each member's copy also
+  names that member in `cc`, so servers that keep only posts naming one of their accounts (Mastodon, GoToSocial) keep
+  it; it names no other member. The posts are served only to a signed request from a member, or from the instance actor
+  of a member's server, and that copy names the member (or the members on that server); anyone else gets 404. A
  Mastodon member's replies reach only the people they mention.
 - Announces from **remote** groups (Lemmy communities) are followed through to the activity: the object is fetched
  from its own origin, never taken from the announce.
@@ -162,6 +164,22 @@ The page's OpenGraph and Twitter tags give the title, description and image; the
 days and shared by every account on the server. Images are served to clients only through PrivaPub's media proxy.
 `Federation:FetchLinkPreviews=false` turns page fetching off.

+## Server descriptions and the crawler
+
+PrivaPub keeps statistics about servers, never about accounts (see `/stargazing` on the server).
+- **Describing a server:** a server it exchanges activities with is described at most once a week, from:
+  - `/.well-known/nodeinfo` and the NodeInfo document it links;
+  - `/api/v2/instance`, falling back to `/api/v1/instance`.
+
+  These requests are unsigned, because they are not ActivityPub documents.
+- **The crawler** is on at privapub.thepra.dev. It identifies as
+  `PrivaPub-Stargazer/<version> (+https://privapub.thepra.dev/stargazing)`.
+  - **What it reads:** `/robots.txt`, then the documents above and `/api/v1/instance/peers`, and nothing else: no
+    accounts, posts or directories.
+  - **How often:** one server a minute, each at most weekly.
+  - **Opting out:** in robots.txt, the crawler obeys the group `PrivaPub-Stargazer`, then `PrivaPub`, then `*`. A
+    robots.txt that answers with a server error or times out also keeps it out, as do this server's domain blocks.
+
 ## Local-only posts

 Posts with a location (shown to nearby users of this server) never leave the server, in any form.
@@ -176,6 +194,13 @@ Posts with a location (shown to nearby users of this server) never leave the ser
  deletes, must be on its actor's origin. An embedded object from another origin is fetched from that origin.
 - **Fetching.** All fetches are signed by the instance actor. They go only to public addresses, follow at most three
  redirects and read at most 1 MB.
+- **Reading our documents (SecureMode).** privapub.thepra.dev answers ActivityPub GETs only when they are signed, like
+  Mastodon's authorized fetch; the instance actor `/peasants/privapub` is the exception, since its key is needed first.
+  A browser asking for HTML is redirected to the public page instead.
+- **Posts that are not public** (followers-only, direct, circle) are served to a signed request from someone they were
+  for, or from the instance actor of a server where someone they were for lives, and to nobody else (404). Once deleted
+  they answer those same readers 410. A direct message's `context`, `/peasants/{name}/whispers/{id}`, is an
+  `OrderedCollection` of the conversation's posts for its participants.
 - **HTML.** Received HTML is sanitised to Mastodon's allowlist.
 - **Keys we cannot fetch for now.** When a sender's key cannot be fetched because its server timed out or answered
  5xx, the inbox answers 503 with `Retry-After: 300` rather than 401.
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+using PrivaPub.ClientModels.Resources;
+
+using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations;
+
+namespace PrivaPub.ClientModels.User
+{
+	// Deleting one's own login, and with it every persona and group it owns, asks for the password again.
+	public class RemoveSelfForm
+	{
+		[Required(ErrorMessageResourceName = "Required", ErrorMessageResourceType = typeof(ErrorsResource)),
+			Display(Name = "Password", ResourceType = typeof(FieldsNameResource))]
+		public string Password { get; set; }
+	}
+}
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Tests.Domain
 		{
 			public string BaseAddress => Base;

+			public Task<GoneActor> Gone(string userName, CancellationToken token) => Task.FromResult<GoneActor>(default);
 			public Task<LocalActor> FindByUserName(string userName, CancellationToken token) =>
 				Task.FromResult(userName.Equals("alice", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase)
 					? new LocalActor { Id = "a1", UserName = "alice", BaseAddress = Base, Kind = LocalActorKind.Person }
@@ -65,6 +65,8 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Tests.Domain
 			var sent = await _harness.Outgoing(follower.SharedInbox);
 			Assert.Equal(new[] { "Create", "Update", "Delete" }, sent.Select(a => a["type"]!.GetValue<string>()));
 			Assert.DoesNotContain(sent[0]["to"]!.AsArray(), n => n!.GetValue<string>().EndsWith("#Public"));
+			// Pleroma reads an empty cc without a "/followers" address as a direct message
+			Assert.Contains(sent[0]["object"]!["cc"]!.AsArray(), n => n!.GetValue<string>() == alice.Followers);
 			Assert.Equal("cw", sent[1]["object"]!["summary"]!.GetValue<string>());
 			Assert.NotNull(sent[1]["object"]!["updated"]);
 			Assert.Equal(sent[0]["to"]!.ToJsonString(), sent[2]["to"]!.ToJsonString());
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ using PrivaPub.Models.Federation;
 using PrivaPub.Models.Group;
 using PrivaPub.Models.Post;
 using PrivaPub.Models.Social;
+using PrivaPub.StaticServices;
 using PrivaPub.Tests.Support;

 using System.Text.Json.Nodes;
@@ -138,21 +139,86 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Tests.Federation
 			Assert.Equal(PostVisibility.Circle, outcome.Post.Visibility);
 			var create = Assert.Single(await _harness.Outgoing(member.Id + "/inbox"));
 			Assert.Equal(new[] { circle.Uri, circle.Flock }, create["object"]!["to"]!.AsArray().Select(t => t!.GetValue<string>()));
+			// the member's copy names the member, so Mastodon and GoToSocial keep it, and names nobody else
+			Assert.Equal(new[] { member.Id }, create["cc"]!.AsArray().Select(t => t!.GetValue<string>()));
+			Assert.Equal(new[] { member.Id }, create["object"]!["cc"]!.AsArray().Select(t => t!.GetValue<string>()));
+			Assert.Contains(create["object"]!["tag"]!.AsArray(), t => t!["type"]!.GetValue<string>() == "Mention" && t["href"]!.GetValue<string>() == member.Id);
 			Assert.DoesNotContain(Addressing.Public, create.ToJsonString());
 			Assert.Empty(await _harness.Outgoing(follower.SharedInbox));
 			Assert.Empty((await _harness.Outgoing(member.SharedInbox)).Where(a => a["type"]!.GetValue<string>() == "Announce"));

-			var authorizer = new SignedFetchAuthorizer(_harness.Remote);
+			var authorizer = new SignedFetchAuthorizer(_harness.Remote, new DbEntities());
 			var path = new Uri(outcome.Post.ObjectURI).AbsolutePath;
 			var asMember = await authorizer.Requester(member.Get(Harness.Host, path), token);
 			var asOutsider = await authorizer.Requester(outsider.Get(Harness.Host, path), token);
 			Assert.True(SignedFetchAuthorizer.MayReadCircle(circleEntity, asMember));
 			Assert.False(SignedFetchAuthorizer.MayReadCircle(circleEntity, asOutsider));
 			Assert.False(SignedFetchAuthorizer.MayReadCircle(circleEntity, default));
+			Assert.True(await authorizer.MayRead(outcome.Post, asMember, token));
+			Assert.False(await authorizer.MayRead(outcome.Post, asOutsider, token));
+			Assert.Equal(new[] { member.Id }, SignedFetchAuthorizer.CircleReaders(circleEntity, asMember));
 			Assert.True(circle.IsCircle);
 			Assert.False(circle.Discoverable);
 		}

+		[Fact]
+		public async Task A_circle_posts_edit_and_delete_reach_each_member_naming_only_that_member()
+		{
+			var token = TestContext.Current.CancellationToken;
+			var (_, alice) = await _harness.Persona("alice");
+			var first = new RemoteActor(_harness.Peer, "first");
+			var second = new RemoteActor(_harness.Peer, "second", _harness.Peer.B);
+			var (_, circle) = await Group(GroupKind.Circle, PostingPolicy.Followers, alice.Id, first.Id, second.Id);
+			await _harness.Remote.GetActor(first.Id, refresh: false, token);
+			await _harness.Remote.GetActor(second.Id, refresh: false, token);
+
+			var outcome = await _harness.Statuses.Publish(alice, new StatusDraft { Text = "just us", GroupId = circle.Id }, token);
+			await _harness.Statuses.Edit(alice, outcome.Post.ID, new StatusDraft { Text = "just us, edited" }, token);
+			await _harness.Statuses.Remove(alice, outcome.Post.ID, token);
+
+			foreach (var (member, other) in new[] { (first, second), (second, first) })
+			{
+				var sent = await _harness.Outgoing(member.Id + "/inbox");
+				Assert.Equal(new[] { "Create", "Update", "Delete" }, sent.Select(a => a["type"]!.GetValue<string>()));
+				Assert.All(sent, a => Assert.Contains(member.Id, a["cc"]!.AsArray().Select(c => c!.GetValue<string>())));
+				Assert.All(sent, a => Assert.DoesNotContain(other.Id, a.ToJsonString()));
+			}
+		}
+
+		[Fact]
+		public async Task A_reply_to_a_circle_post_stays_in_it_and_a_circle_post_asks_nobody_outside_for_a_quote()
+		{
+			var token = TestContext.Current.CancellationToken;
+			var (_, alice) = await _harness.Persona("alice");
+			var (_, bob) = await _harness.Persona("bob");
+			var (entity, circle) = await Group(GroupKind.Circle, PostingPolicy.Followers, alice.Id);
+			entity.Members.Add(new GroupMember { AvatarId = bob.Id });
+			await DB.Default.SaveAsync(entity, token);
+			var outsider = new RemoteActor(_harness.Peer, "asked");
+			var outsiderAccount = await _harness.Remote.GetActor(outsider.Id, refresh: false, token);
+			var asksFirst = new Post
+			{
+				ObjectURI = $"{Origin(outsider)}/notes/{Guid.NewGuid():N}",
+				ActorURI = outsider.Id,
+				GroupUserId = outsiderAccount.ID,
+				AuthorAccountId = outsiderAccount.ID,
+				IsFederatedCopy = true,
+				Visibility = PostVisibility.Public,
+				ContentHtml = "<p>ask me first</p>",
+				QuotePolicy = new InteractionRule { Manual = new() { Addressing.Public } }
+			};
+			await DB.Default.SaveAsync(asksFirst, token);
+
+			var root = await _harness.Statuses.Publish(alice, new StatusDraft { Text = "just us", GroupId = circle.Id }, token);
+			var reply = await _harness.Statuses.Publish(bob, new StatusDraft { Text = "still just us", InReplyTo = root.Post.ID }, token);
+			var quote = await _harness.Statuses.Publish(alice, new StatusDraft { Text = "look", GroupId = circle.Id, QuotedStatusId = asksFirst.ID }, token);
+
+			Assert.Equal(PostVisibility.Circle, reply.Post.Visibility);
+			Assert.Equal(circle.Id, reply.Post.GroupId);
+			Assert.Equal(422, quote.Status);
+			Assert.Empty(await _harness.Outgoing(outsider.Id + "/inbox"));
+		}
+
 		[Fact]
 		public async Task Only_circle_members_can_post_into_a_circle()
 		{
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Tests.Federation
 		}

 		[Fact]
-		public void Reads_polls_from_mastodon_misskey_and_closed_ones()
+		public void Reads_polls_from_mastodon_misskey_akkoma_and_closed_ones()
 		{
 			var mastodon = Parse("""
 				{ "id": "https://m.example/q/1", "type": "Question", "attributedTo": "https://m.example/u", "content": "?", "endTime": "2026-10-02T00:00:00Z", "votersCount": 7,
@@ -204,6 +204,10 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Tests.Federation
 				{ "id": "https://g.example/q/1", "type": "Question", "attributedTo": "https://g.example/u", "content": "?", "closed": "2026-09-30T12:00:00Z",
 					"oneOf": [{ "type": "Note", "name": "p" }, { "type": "Note", "name": "q" }] }
 				""");
+			var akkoma = Parse("""
+				{ "id": "https://a.example/objects/1", "type": "Question", "attributedTo": "https://a.example/users/u", "content": "?", "closed": "2099-01-01T00:00:00.000000Z",
+					"oneOf": [{ "type": "Note", "name": "p" }, { "type": "Note", "name": "q" }] }
+				""");

 			Assert.False(mastodon.Poll.Multiple);
 			Assert.Equal(new[] { 4, 3 }, mastodon.Poll.Options.Select(o => o.Votes));
@@ -212,6 +216,8 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Tests.Federation
 			Assert.Equal(new[] { 2, 5 }, misskey.Poll.Options.Select(o => o.Votes));
 			Assert.Null(misskey.Poll.VotersCount);
 			Assert.Equal(new DateTime(2026, 9, 30, 12, 0, 0, DateTimeKind.Utc), closed.Poll.ClosedAt);
+			Assert.Null(akkoma.Poll.ClosedAt);
+			Assert.Equal(new DateTime(2099, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, DateTimeKind.Utc), akkoma.Poll.ExpiresAt);
 		}

 		[Fact]
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+using PrivaPub.Federation.Inbox;
+using PrivaPub.Federation.Objects;
+using PrivaPub.Models.Post;
+
+namespace PrivaPub.Tests.Federation
+{
+	public class RemoteEditsTests
+	{
+		static readonly DateTime Published = new(2026, 10, 3, 10, 40, 1, DateTimeKind.Utc);
+
+		static Post Stored(DateTime? editedAt = default) => new() { CreationDate = Published, EditedAt = editedAt, ContentHtml = "<p>before</p>" };
+
+		[Fact]
+		public void A_newer_update_is_an_edit_and_an_update_without_a_date_is_a_refresh()
+		{
+			Assert.True(RemoteEdits.IsEdit(new NoteDocument { Updated = Published.AddSeconds(1), ContentHtml = "<p>before</p>" }, Stored()));
+			Assert.False(RemoteEdits.IsEdit(new NoteDocument { ContentHtml = "<p>after</p>" }, Stored()));
+			Assert.False(RemoteEdits.IsEdit(new NoteDocument { Updated = Published.AddSeconds(-1), ContentHtml = "<p>after</p>" }, Stored()));
+		}
+
+		[Fact]
+		public void An_edit_in_the_second_the_post_was_published_counts_when_the_text_changed()
+		{
+			Assert.True(RemoteEdits.IsEdit(new NoteDocument { Updated = Published, ContentHtml = "<p>after</p>" }, Stored()));
+			Assert.True(RemoteEdits.IsEdit(new NoteDocument { Updated = Published, ContentHtml = "<p>before</p>", SpoilerText = "now with a warning" }, Stored()));
+			Assert.False(RemoteEdits.IsEdit(new NoteDocument { Updated = Published, ContentHtml = "<p>before</p>" }, Stored()));
+		}
+
+		[Fact]
+		public void After_a_first_edit_only_a_newer_one_counts()
+		{
+			var edited = Published.AddMinutes(1);
+
+			Assert.False(RemoteEdits.IsEdit(new NoteDocument { Updated = edited, ContentHtml = "<p>again</p>" }, Stored(edited)));
+			Assert.True(RemoteEdits.IsEdit(new NoteDocument { Updated = edited.AddSeconds(1), ContentHtml = "<p>again</p>" }, Stored(edited)));
+		}
+	}
+}
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ using MongoDB.Entities;
 using PrivaPub.ClientModels;
 using PrivaPub.Models.Group;
 using PrivaPub.Models.User;
+using PrivaPub.Services;
+using PrivaPub.Models.Jobs;
 using PrivaPub.Tests.Support;
 using PrivaPub.Tests.Support.Host;

@@ -136,9 +138,11 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Tests.Http

 			Assert.Equal(HttpStatusCode.OK, ok.StatusCode);
 			Assert.Equal(root.Id, (await ok.JsonBody())["userId"]!.GetValue<string>());
+			// a wrong password and an unknown login get the same answer, so sign-in tells nobody which logins exist
 			Assert.Equal(HttpStatusCode.BadRequest, wrong.StatusCode);
-			Assert.Equal("Wrong password.", await Message(wrong));
+			Assert.Equal(RootUsersService.NoMatch, await Message(wrong));
 			Assert.Equal(HttpStatusCode.BadRequest, unknown.StatusCode);
+			Assert.Equal(await Message(wrong), await Message(unknown));
 			Assert.Equal(HttpStatusCode.OK, logout.StatusCode);
 			Assert.Equal(HttpStatusCode.Unauthorized, anonymousLogout.StatusCode);
 		}
@@ -290,42 +294,59 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Tests.Http
 		}

 		[Fact]
-		public async Task Recovery_without_an_email_is_refused()
+		public async Task Recovery_answers_the_same_whoever_asks_and_queues_the_work()
 		{
-			var root = await _host.SignUp("noemail");
+			var token = TestContext.Current.CancellationToken;
+			var since = DateTime.UtcNow.AddSeconds(-1);
+			var withEmail = await _host.SignUp("withemail");
+			var withoutEmail = await _host.SignUp("noemail");
+			var email = $"{Guid.NewGuid():N}@example.test";
+			using (var signedIn = _host.As(withEmail.Jwt))
+				Assert.Equal(HttpStatusCode.OK, (await signedIn.PostJson("/clientapi/user/update", new { email })).StatusCode);
 			using var client = _host.Client();

-			var response = await client.PostJson("/clientapi/user/recover/password", new { userName = root.UserName });
-			var unknown = await client.PostJson("/clientapi/user/recover/password", new { userName = Name("nobody") });
-			var neither = await client.PostJson("/clientapi/user/recover/password", new { });
+			var answers = new[]
+			{
+				await client.PostJson("/clientapi/user/recover/password", new { userName = withEmail.UserName }),
+				await client.PostJson("/clientapi/user/recover/password", new { email }),
+				await client.PostJson("/clientapi/user/recover/password", new { userName = withoutEmail.UserName }),
+				await client.PostJson("/clientapi/user/recover/password", new { userName = Name("nobody") }),
+				await client.PostJson("/clientapi/user/recover/password", new { email = $"{Guid.NewGuid():N}@example.test" })
+			};
+			var bodies = new List<string>();
+			foreach (var answer in answers)
+			{
+				Assert.Equal(HttpStatusCode.OK, answer.StatusCode);
+				bodies.Add(await answer.Content.ReadAsStringAsync(token));
+			}

-			Assert.Equal(HttpStatusCode.Locked, response.StatusCode);
-			Assert.Contains("doesn't have an email", await Message(response));
-			Assert.False(await DB.Default.Find<EmailRecovery>().Match(r => r.RootUserId == root.Id).ExecuteAnyAsync(TestContext.Current.CancellationToken));
-			Assert.Equal(HttpStatusCode.NotFound, unknown.StatusCode);
-			Assert.Equal(HttpStatusCode.BadRequest, neither.StatusCode);
+			Assert.Single(bodies.Distinct());
+			Assert.Contains("recovery link is on its way", bodies[0]);
+			var queued = await DB.Default.Find<Job>().Match(j => j.Kind == JobKind.SendRecovery && j.CreatedAt >= since).ExecuteAsync(token);
+			Assert.True(queued.Count >= answers.Length);
+			Assert.Contains(queued, j => j.Payload.Contains(withEmail.Id));
+			Assert.Equal(HttpStatusCode.BadRequest, (await client.PostJson("/clientapi/user/recover/password", new { })).StatusCode);
 		}

 		[Fact]
-		public async Task Recovery_through_an_unreachable_mail_server_says_so_and_nothing_more()
+		public async Task The_recovery_job_keeps_only_a_hash_and_an_unreachable_mail_server_says_nothing_to_anyone()
 		{
+			var token = TestContext.Current.CancellationToken;
 			var root = await _host.SignUp("smtp");
 			var email = $"{Guid.NewGuid():N}@example.test";
 			using (var signedIn = _host.As(root.Jwt))
 				Assert.Equal(HttpStatusCode.OK, (await signedIn.PostJson("/clientapi/user/update", new { email })).StatusCode);
 			using var client = _host.Client();

-			var byName = await client.PostJson("/clientapi/user/recover/password", new { userName = root.UserName });
-			var byEmail = await client.PostJson("/clientapi/user/recover/password", new { email });
+			var answer = await client.PostJson("/clientapi/user/recover/password", new { userName = root.UserName });
+			await _host.Run(j => j.Kind == JobKind.SendRecovery && j.Payload.Contains(root.Id), token);

-			foreach (var response in new[] { byName, byEmail })
-			{
-				var body = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync(TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
-				Assert.Equal(HttpStatusCode.ServiceUnavailable, response.StatusCode);
-				Assert.Equal("Failed to send email.", JsonNode.Parse(body)!["errorMessage"]!.GetValue<string>());
-				foreach (var leak in new[] { "xception", "efused", "ocket", "127.0.0.1", "smtp", "SMTP", "  at " })
-					Assert.DoesNotContain(leak, body);
-			}
+			Assert.Equal(HttpStatusCode.OK, answer.StatusCode);
+			var recovery = await DB.Default.Find<EmailRecovery>().Match(r => r.RootUserId == root.Id).ExecuteFirstAsync(token);
+			Assert.NotNull(recovery);
+			Assert.Null(recovery.RecoveryCode);
+			Assert.Equal(64, recovery.CodeHash.Length);
+			Assert.InRange(recovery.ExpiresAt, DateTime.UtcNow.AddMinutes(50), DateTime.UtcNow.AddMinutes(61));
 		}

 		[Fact]
@@ -348,7 +369,10 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Tests.Http
 		{
 			var root = await _host.SignUp("recover");
 			var code = Guid.NewGuid().ToString("N") + Guid.NewGuid().ToString("N");
-			await DB.Default.SaveAsync(new EmailRecovery { RootUserId = root.Id, RecoveryCode = code }, TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+			await DB.Default.SaveAsync(new EmailRecovery { RootUserId = root.Id, CodeHash = RecoveryJob.Hash(code), ExpiresAt = DateTime.UtcNow.AddHours(1) },
+				TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+			var persona = await _host.Persona(root, "recovered");
+			var apiToken = await _host.MastodonToken(persona);
 			using var client = _host.Client();

 			var valid = await client.PostAsync("/clientapi/user/recover/valid", new StringContent($"\"{code}\"", Encoding.UTF8, "application/json"), TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
@@ -361,6 +385,29 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Tests.Http
 			Assert.Equal(HttpStatusCode.BadRequest, (await LogIn(root.UserName, root.Password)).StatusCode);
 			Assert.Equal(HttpStatusCode.OK, (await LogIn(root.UserName, NewPassword)).StatusCode);
 			Assert.False(await DB.Default.Find<EmailRecovery>().Match(r => r.RootUserId == root.Id).ExecuteAnyAsync(TestContext.Current.CancellationToken));
+			// whoever held the old sessions may be why the password was recovered: they end
+			using (var oldSession = _host.As(root.Jwt))
+				Assert.Equal(HttpStatusCode.Unauthorized, (await oldSession.GetAsync("/clientapi/user/sniff/again", TestContext.Current.CancellationToken)).StatusCode);
+			using (var oldApp = _host.Client())
+			{
+				oldApp.DefaultRequestHeaders.Authorization = new("Bearer", apiToken);
+				Assert.Equal(HttpStatusCode.Unauthorized, (await oldApp.GetAsync("/api/v1/accounts/verify_credentials", TestContext.Current.CancellationToken)).StatusCode);
+			}
+		}
+
+		[Fact]
+		public async Task An_expired_recovery_code_changes_nothing()
+		{
+			var root = await _host.SignUp("expired");
+			var code = Guid.NewGuid().ToString("N") + Guid.NewGuid().ToString("N");
+			await DB.Default.SaveAsync(new EmailRecovery { RootUserId = root.Id, CodeHash = RecoveryJob.Hash(code), ExpiresAt = DateTime.UtcNow.AddMinutes(-1) },
+				TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+			using var client = _host.Client();
+
+			var change = await client.PostJson("/clientapi/user/recover/update/password", new { newPassword = NewPassword, repeatedPassword = NewPassword, recoveryCode = code });
+
+			Assert.Equal(HttpStatusCode.NotFound, change.StatusCode);
+			Assert.Equal(HttpStatusCode.OK, (await LogIn(root.UserName, root.Password)).StatusCode);
 		}

 		[Fact]
@@ -154,6 +154,34 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Tests.Http
 			Assert.DoesNotContain(persona.Root.UserName, update.ToJsonString());
 		}

+		[Fact]
+		public async Task A_theme_change_here_keeps_what_the_mastodon_api_set()
+		{
+			var persona = await _host.Persona(await _host.SignUp("keep"), "keep");
+			await DB.Default.Update<Avatar>().MatchID(persona.Id)
+				.Modify(a => a.Settings.IsDiscoverable, false)
+				.Modify(a => a.Settings.IsLocked, true)
+				.Modify(a => a.Settings.QuotePolicy, QuotePolicies.Nobody)
+				.ExecuteAsync(TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+			using var client = _host.As(persona.Root.Jwt);
+
+			var response = await client.PostJson("/clientapi/avatar/private/update", new
+			{
+				avatarId = persona.Id,
+				name = "Kept",
+				biography = "same settings",
+				settings = new { isDefault = false, darkThemeIndexColour = 100, themeIsDarkMode = true }
+			});
+
+			Assert.Equal(HttpStatusCode.OK, response.StatusCode);
+			var settings = (await DB.Default.Find<Avatar>().MatchID(persona.Id).ExecuteFirstAsync(TestContext.Current.CancellationToken)).Settings;
+			Assert.True(settings.ThemeIsDarkMode);
+			Assert.Equal(100, settings.DarkThemeIndexColour);
+			Assert.False(settings.IsDiscoverable);
+			Assert.True(settings.IsLocked);
+			Assert.Equal(QuotePolicies.Nobody, settings.QuotePolicy);
+		}
+
 		[Fact]
 		public async Task Updating_another_roots_persona_is_refused()
 		{
@@ -322,11 +322,66 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Tests.Http
 			Assert.Equal(new[] { circle.Uri, circle.Uri + "/flock" }, Strings(asMember.Json["to"]));
 			Assert.DoesNotContain(ActivityPubRenderer.Public, asMember.Text);
 			Assert.Equal(HttpStatusCode.OK, asMemberServer.Status);
+			// a refetch names the member, as the member's copy did; the instance actor sees the members on its server only
+			Assert.Equal(new[] { member.Id }, Strings(asMember.Json["cc"]));
+			Assert.Equal(new[] { member.Id }, Strings(asMemberServer.Json["cc"]));
 			Assert.Equal(HttpStatusCode.NotFound, (await _client.Fetch(path)).Status);
 			Assert.Equal(HttpStatusCode.NotFound, (await _client.Fetch(path, Browser)).Status);
 			foreach (var outsider in new[] { neighbour, stranger, strangerServer })
 				Assert.Equal(HttpStatusCode.NotFound, (await _client.Fetch(outsider.SignedGet(path))).Status);
-			Assert.Equal(HttpStatusCode.NotFound, (await _client.Fetch($"/peasants/{owner.UserName}/grunts/create-{post.ID}")).Status);
+			var create = $"/peasants/{owner.UserName}/grunts/create-{post.ID}";
+			Assert.Equal(HttpStatusCode.NotFound, (await _client.Fetch(create)).Status);
+			var createAsMember = await _client.Fetch(member.SignedGet(create));
+			Assert.Equal(HttpStatusCode.OK, createAsMember.Status);
+			Assert.Equal(post.ObjectURI, createAsMember.Json["object"]!["id"]!.GetValue<string>());
+			Assert.Equal(new[] { member.Id }, Strings(createAsMember.Json["object"]!["cc"]));
+		}
+
+		[Fact]
+		public async Task Followers_only_and_direct_posts_are_served_to_signed_fetches_from_those_they_were_for()
+		{
+			var token = TestContext.Current.CancellationToken;
+			var owner = await _host.Persona(await _host.SignUp(), "private");
+			var follower = new RemoteActor(_peer, "follower");
+			var followerServer = new RemoteActor(_peer, "instance", type: "Application");
+			var recipient = new RemoteActor(_peer, "recipient");
+			var stranger = new RemoteActor(_peer, "stranger", _peer.B);
+			_peer.WebFinger(recipient);
+			await DB.Default.SaveAsync(new Follower
+			{
+				LocalActorId = owner.Id,
+				LocalActorKind = LocalActorKind.Person,
+				ActorURI = follower.Id,
+				InboxURL = follower.Id + "/inbox"
+			}, token);
+			var quiet = await _host.Publish(owner, "for followers", PostVisibility.FollowersOnly);
+			var direct = await _host.Publish(owner, new StatusDraft { Text = $"@{recipient.Handle()} just you", PlainText = true, Visibility = PostVisibility.Direct });
+			var quietPath = $"/peasants/{owner.UserName}/scribbles/{quiet.ID}";
+			var directPath = $"/peasants/{owner.UserName}/scribbles/{direct.ID}";
+
+			Assert.Equal(HttpStatusCode.OK, (await _client.Fetch(follower.SignedGet(quietPath))).Status);
+			Assert.Equal(HttpStatusCode.OK, (await _client.Fetch(followerServer.SignedGet(quietPath))).Status);
+			Assert.Equal(HttpStatusCode.NotFound, (await _client.Fetch(stranger.SignedGet(quietPath))).Status);
+			Assert.Equal(HttpStatusCode.NotFound, (await _client.Fetch(quietPath)).Status);
+			var asRecipient = await _client.Fetch(recipient.SignedGet(directPath));
+			Assert.Equal(HttpStatusCode.OK, asRecipient.Status);
+			Assert.Contains(recipient.Id, Strings(asRecipient.Json["to"]));
+			Assert.Equal(HttpStatusCode.NotFound, (await _client.Fetch(follower.SignedGet(directPath))).Status);
+			Assert.Equal(HttpStatusCode.NotFound, (await _client.Fetch(directPath)).Status);
+
+			// the DM's context is the conversation, for its participants only
+			var context = PathOf(asRecipient.Json["context"]!.GetValue<string>());
+			var conversation = await _client.Fetch(recipient.SignedGet(context));
+			Assert.Equal(HttpStatusCode.OK, conversation.Status);
+			Assert.Equal(new[] { direct.ObjectURI }, Strings(conversation.Json["orderedItems"]));
+			Assert.Equal(HttpStatusCode.NotFound, (await _client.Fetch(stranger.SignedGet(context))).Status);
+			Assert.Equal(HttpStatusCode.NotFound, (await _client.Fetch(context)).Status);
+
+			// once deleted, those it was for learn it is gone; everyone else still learns nothing
+			await _host.Remove(owner, quiet);
+			Assert.Equal(HttpStatusCode.Gone, (await _client.Fetch(follower.SignedGet(quietPath))).Status);
+			Assert.Equal(HttpStatusCode.NotFound, (await _client.Fetch(stranger.SignedGet(quietPath))).Status);
+			Assert.Equal(HttpStatusCode.NotFound, (await _client.Fetch(quietPath)).Status);
 		}

 		[Fact]
@@ -463,6 +518,10 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Tests.Http
 			Assert.Equal("Application", instance.Json["type"]!.GetValue<string>());
 			foreach (var path in paths[..^1])
 				Assert.True((await client.Fetch(reader.SignedGet(path))).Status == HttpStatusCode.OK, $"{path} refused a signed GET");
+			// a browser is not asked for a signature: it is only sent to the public pages
+			var browser = await client.Fetch($"/peasants/{persona.UserName}", Browser);
+			Assert.Equal(HttpStatusCode.Redirect, browser.Status);
+			Assert.Equal(HttpStatusCode.Redirect, (await client.Fetch($"/peasants/{persona.UserName}/scribbles/{post.ID}", Browser)).Status);
 		}
 	}
 }
@@ -28,7 +28,8 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Tests.Http
 			Assert.Equal("4.2.0 (compatible; PrivaPub)", v1.Body.Text("version"));
 			Assert.Equal(InstanceController.Version, v1.Body.Text("version"));
 			Assert.Equal(PrivaPubHost.Host, v1.Body.Text("uri"));
-			Assert.False(v1.Body.Flag("registrations"));
+			Assert.True(v1.Body.Flag("registrations"));
+			Assert.True(v1.Body.Flag("invites_enabled"));
 			Assert.True(v1.Body["stats"].Number("user_count") >= 0);
 			Assert.Equal(5000, v1.Body["configuration"]!["statuses"].Number("max_characters"));
 			Assert.Equal(4, v1.Body["configuration"]!["polls"].Number("max_options"));
@@ -41,7 +42,8 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Tests.Http
 			Assert.Equal(InstanceController.Version, v2.Body.Text("version"));
 			Assert.Equal(PrivaPubHost.Host, v2.Body.Text("domain"));
 			Assert.Equal($"wss://{PrivaPubHost.Host}", v2.Body["configuration"]!["urls"].Text("streaming"));
-			Assert.False(v2.Body["registrations"].Flag("enabled"));
+			Assert.True(v2.Body["registrations"].Flag("enabled"));
+			Assert.True((await anonymous.Get("/nodeinfo/2.1")).Ok().Body.Flag("openRegistrations"));
 			Assert.False(v2.Body["configuration"]!["translation"].Flag("enabled"));
 			Assert.Equal(7, v2.Body["api_versions"].Number("mastodon"));

@@ -60,7 +60,8 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Tests.Http
 			Assert.Equal(new[] { MastodonHelpers.Public }, Strings(unlistedNote["cc"]));
 			var quietNote = creates[quiet.Text("uri")]["object"];
 			Assert.Equal(new[] { followers }, Strings(quietNote["to"]));
-			Assert.Empty(quietNote["cc"]!.AsArray());
+			// named again in cc: Pleroma and Akkoma read an empty cc without a "/followers" address as a direct message
+			Assert.Equal(new[] { followers }, Strings(quietNote["cc"]));
 			var whisper = Assert.Single(await carol.Delivered(since));
 			Assert.Equal(direct.Text("uri"), whisper["object"].Text("id"));
 			Assert.Equal(new[] { carol.Id }, Strings(whisper["object"]!["to"]));
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting;
+using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Testing;
+
+using PrivaPub.Infrastructure;
+using PrivaPub.Tests.Support;
+using PrivaPub.Tests.Support.Host;
+
+using System.Net;
+
+namespace PrivaPub.Tests.Http
+{
+	[Trait("Category", "Integration")]
+	public sealed class RegistrationsTests : IAsyncLifetime
+	{
+		WebApplicationFactory<Program> _closed;
+
+		public async ValueTask InitializeAsync()
+		{
+			Assert.SkipUnless(MongoFixture.Enabled, MongoFixture.Skip);
+			var shared = await PrivaPubHost.Shared();
+			_closed = shared.WithWebHostBuilder(builder => builder.UseSetting("Registrations:Mode", nameof(RegistrationMode.Invitations)));
+		}
+
+		public async ValueTask DisposeAsync()
+		{
+			if (_closed != default)
+				await _closed.DisposeAsync();
+		}
+
+		[Fact]
+		public async Task Invitations_only_refuses_sign_up_and_every_document_says_closed()
+		{
+			using var client = _closed.CreateClient(new WebApplicationFactoryClientOptions { BaseAddress = new Uri(PrivaPubHost.Base + "/"), AllowAutoRedirect = false });
+			client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add(PrivaPubHost.ClientHeader, $"10.9.{Random.Shared.Next(256)}.{Random.Shared.Next(1, 255)}");
+
+			var signUp = await client.PostJson("/clientapi/user/signup", new { userName = $"closed{Guid.NewGuid():N}"[..20], password = "Closed-Door-Pass-1" });
+			var nodeInfo = (await client.Get("/nodeinfo/2.1")).Ok().Body;
+			var v1 = (await client.Get("/api/v1/instance")).Ok().Body;
+			var v2 = (await client.Get("/api/v2/instance")).Ok().Body;
+
+			Assert.Equal(HttpStatusCode.Forbidden, signUp.StatusCode);
+			Assert.Contains("invitation", await signUp.Content.ReadAsStringAsync(TestContext.Current.CancellationToken));
+			Assert.False(nodeInfo.Flag("openRegistrations"));
+			Assert.False(v1.Flag("registrations"));
+			Assert.True(v1.Flag("invites_enabled"));
+			Assert.False(v2["registrations"].Flag("enabled"));
+			Assert.Equal(RegistrationOptions.ClosedMessage, v2["registrations"].Text("message"));
+		}
+	}
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,118 @@
+using MongoDB.Entities;
+
+using PrivaPub.Models.Federation;
+using PrivaPub.Models.User;
+using PrivaPub.Tests.Support;
+using PrivaPub.Tests.Support.Host;
+
+using System.Net;
+using System.Net.Http.Json;
+
+using GroupEntity = PrivaPub.Models.Group.Group;
+using PostEntity = PrivaPub.Models.Post.Post;
+
+namespace PrivaPub.Tests.Http
+{
+	// Deleting a root deletes its personas and their groups everywhere (owner decision 2026-10-04).
+	[Trait("Category", "Integration")]
+	public sealed class RootRemovalTests : IAsyncLifetime
+	{
+		PrivaPubHost _host;
+		HttpClient _client;
+		Peer _peer;
+
+		public async ValueTask InitializeAsync()
+		{
+			Assert.SkipUnless(MongoFixture.Enabled, MongoFixture.Skip);
+			_host = await PrivaPubHost.Shared();
+			_client = _host.Client();
+			_peer = await Peer.Start();
+		}
+
+		public async ValueTask DisposeAsync()
+		{
+			_client?.Dispose();
+			if (_peer != default)
+				await _peer.DisposeAsync();
+		}
+
+		async Task<HttpResponseMessage> AdminRemoves(params string[] rootIds)
+		{
+			var admin = await _host.Admin();
+			using var client = _host.As(admin.Jwt);
+			using var request = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Delete, "/clientapi/admin/remove/users") { Content = JsonContent.Create(new { userIdList = rootIds }) };
+			return await client.SendAsync(request, TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+		}
+
+		[Fact]
+		public async Task A_removed_roots_personas_and_groups_are_deleted_everywhere_and_say_so()
+		{
+			var token = TestContext.Current.CancellationToken;
+			var root = await _host.SignUp("leaving");
+			var persona = await _host.Persona(root, "leaving");
+			var follower = new RemoteActor(_peer, "fan");
+			var member = new RemoteActor(_peer, "member");
+			await DB.Default.SaveAsync(new Follower { LocalActorId = persona.Id, LocalActorKind = LocalActorKind.Person, ActorURI = follower.Id, InboxURL = follower.Id + "/inbox" }, token);
+			var group = await _host.Group(persona, community: true);
+			var groupId = group["id"]!.GetValue<string>();
+			await DB.Default.SaveAsync(new Follower { LocalActorId = groupId, LocalActorKind = LocalActorKind.Group, ActorURI = member.Id, InboxURL = member.Id + "/inbox" }, token);
+			var post = await _host.Publish(persona, "goodbye soon");
+			var apiToken = await _host.MastodonToken(persona);
+			var since = DateTime.UtcNow.AddSeconds(-1);
+
+			Assert.Equal(HttpStatusCode.OK, (await AdminRemoves(root.Id)).StatusCode);
+
+			var toFollower = Assert.Single(await Jobs.Deliveries(follower.Id + "/inbox", since, token), d => d["type"]!.GetValue<string>() == "Delete");
+			Assert.Equal(persona.ActorUri(), toFollower["object"]!.GetValue<string>());
+			Assert.Equal(persona.ActorUri(), toFollower["actor"]!.GetValue<string>());
+			var groupName = group["userName"]!.GetValue<string>();
+			Assert.Contains(await Jobs.Deliveries(member.Id + "/inbox", since, token),
+				d => d["type"]!.GetValue<string>() == "Delete" && d["object"]!.GetValue<string>() == $"{PrivaPubHost.Base}/peasants/{groupName}");
+			var gone = await _client.Fetch($"/peasants/{persona.UserName}");
+			Assert.Equal(HttpStatusCode.Gone, gone.Status);
+			Assert.Equal("Person", gone.Json["formerType"]!.GetValue<string>());
+			Assert.Equal(HttpStatusCode.Gone, (await _client.Fetch($"/peasants/{groupName}")).Status);
+			Assert.Equal(HttpStatusCode.Gone, (await _client.GetAsync($"/.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct:{persona.UserName}@{PrivaPubHost.Host}", token)).StatusCode);
+			var stored = await DB.Default.Find<PostEntity>().MatchID(post.ID).ExecuteFirstAsync(token);
+			Assert.NotNull(stored.DeletedAt);
+			Assert.Null(stored.ContentHtml);
+			Assert.NotNull((await DB.Default.Find<GroupEntity>().MatchID(groupId).ExecuteFirstAsync(token)).DeletionAt);
+			var removed = await DB.Default.Find<RootUser>().MatchID(root.Id).ExecuteFirstAsync(token);
+			Assert.Equal($"deleted-{root.Id}", removed.UserName);
+			Assert.Null(removed.HashedPassword);
+			using var app = _host.Client();
+			app.DefaultRequestHeaders.Authorization = new("Bearer", apiToken);
+			Assert.Equal(HttpStatusCode.Unauthorized, (await app.GetAsync("/api/v1/accounts/verify_credentials", token)).StatusCode);
+		}
+
+		[Fact]
+		public async Task A_second_removal_does_not_collide_with_the_first()
+		{
+			var first = await _host.SignUp("first");
+			var second = await _host.SignUp("second");
+
+			Assert.Equal(HttpStatusCode.OK, (await AdminRemoves(first.Id)).StatusCode);
+			Assert.Equal(HttpStatusCode.OK, (await AdminRemoves(second.Id)).StatusCode);
+
+			Assert.NotNull((await DB.Default.Find<RootUser>().MatchID(second.Id).ExecuteFirstAsync(TestContext.Current.CancellationToken)).DeletedAt);
+		}
+
+		[Fact]
+		public async Task A_root_deletes_itself_only_with_its_password()
+		{
+			var token = TestContext.Current.CancellationToken;
+			var root = await _host.SignUp("self");
+			var persona = await _host.Persona(root, "self");
+			using var client = _host.As(root.Jwt);
+
+			var refused = await client.PostJson("/clientapi/user/delete", new { password = "Not-The-Password-1" });
+			Assert.Equal(HttpStatusCode.Forbidden, refused.StatusCode);
+			Assert.Null((await DB.Default.Find<Avatar>().MatchID(persona.Id).ExecuteFirstAsync(token)).DeletionAt);
+
+			var accepted = await client.PostJson("/clientapi/user/delete", new { password = root.Password });
+			Assert.Equal(HttpStatusCode.OK, accepted.StatusCode);
+			Assert.NotNull((await DB.Default.Find<Avatar>().MatchID(persona.Id).ExecuteFirstAsync(token)).DeletionAt);
+			Assert.Equal(HttpStatusCode.Unauthorized, (await client.GetAsync("/clientapi/user/sniff/again", token)).StatusCode);
+		}
+	}
+}
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+using Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection;
+
 using MongoDB.Entities;

 using PrivaPub.ClientModels;
@@ -37,8 +39,8 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Tests.Infrastructure
 		{
 			var root = await _host.SignUp("promote");

-			Assert.Equal(0, await AdminCommands.Run(new[] { "promote", root.UserName.ToUpperInvariant() }));
-			Assert.Equal(0, await AdminCommands.Run(new[] { "promote", root.UserName }));
+			Assert.Equal(0, await AdminCommands.Run(new[] { "promote", root.UserName.ToUpperInvariant() }, _host.Services));
+			Assert.Equal(0, await AdminCommands.Run(new[] { "promote", root.UserName }, _host.Services));

 			Assert.Equal(new[] { Policies.IsAdmin, Policies.IsModerator, Policies.IsUser }.Order(), await StoredPolicies(root));
 		}
@@ -47,10 +49,10 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Tests.Infrastructure
 		public async Task Demote_leaves_a_plain_user()
 		{
 			var root = await _host.SignUp("demote");
-			Assert.Equal(0, await AdminCommands.Run(new[] { "promote", root.UserName }));
+			Assert.Equal(0, await AdminCommands.Run(new[] { "promote", root.UserName }, _host.Services));

-			Assert.Equal(0, await AdminCommands.Run(new[] { "demote", root.UserName }));
-			Assert.Equal(0, await AdminCommands.Run(new[] { "demote", root.UserName }));
+			Assert.Equal(0, await AdminCommands.Run(new[] { "demote", root.UserName }, _host.Services));
+			Assert.Equal(0, await AdminCommands.Run(new[] { "demote", root.UserName }, _host.Services));

 			Assert.Equal(new[] { Policies.IsUser }, await StoredPolicies(root));
 		}
@@ -58,8 +60,8 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Tests.Infrastructure
 		[Fact]
 		public async Task An_unknown_root_exits_1()
 		{
-			Assert.Equal(1, await AdminCommands.Run(new[] { "promote", $"nobody{Guid.NewGuid():N}" }));
-			Assert.Equal(1, await AdminCommands.Run(new[] { "demote", $"nobody{Guid.NewGuid():N}" }));
+			Assert.Equal(1, await AdminCommands.Run(new[] { "promote", $"nobody{Guid.NewGuid():N}" }, _host.Services));
+			Assert.Equal(1, await AdminCommands.Run(new[] { "demote", $"nobody{Guid.NewGuid():N}" }, _host.Services));
 		}

 		public static TheoryData<string[]> Misuses() => new()
@@ -75,7 +77,7 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Tests.Infrastructure
 		[MemberData(nameof(Misuses))]
 		public async Task Misuse_exits_2(string[] args)
 		{
-			Assert.Equal(2, await AdminCommands.Run(args));
+			Assert.Equal(2, await AdminCommands.Run(args, _host.Services));
 		}

 		[Fact]
@@ -84,7 +86,7 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Tests.Infrastructure
 			var root = await _host.SignUp("policies");
 			Assert.Equal(HttpStatusCode.Forbidden, await AdminRoute(root));

-			Assert.Equal(0, await AdminCommands.Run(new[] { "promote", root.UserName }));
+			Assert.Equal(0, await AdminCommands.Run(new[] { "promote", root.UserName }, _host.Services));
 			Assert.Equal(HttpStatusCode.OK, await AdminRoute(root));
 			using (var client = _host.As(root.Jwt))
 			{
@@ -92,8 +94,54 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Tests.Infrastructure
 				Assert.Contains(Policies.IsAdmin, refreshed["policies"]!.AsArray().Select(p => p!.GetValue<string>()));
 			}

-			Assert.Equal(0, await AdminCommands.Run(new[] { "demote", root.UserName }));
+			Assert.Equal(0, await AdminCommands.Run(new[] { "demote", root.UserName }, _host.Services));
 			Assert.Equal(HttpStatusCode.Forbidden, await AdminRoute(root));
 		}
+
+		async Task<HttpStatusCode> LogIn(string login, string password)
+		{
+			using var client = _host.Client();
+			return (await client.PostJson("/clientapi/user/login", new { userName = login, password })).StatusCode;
+		}
+
+		[Fact]
+		public async Task Create_root_makes_a_login_from_a_password_on_standard_input()
+		{
+			using var scope = _host.Services.CreateScope();
+			var login = $"made{Guid.NewGuid():N}"[..20];
+			var output = new StringWriter();
+
+			Assert.Equal(0, await AdminCommands.Run(new[] { "create-root", login, "--admin" }, scope.ServiceProvider, new StringReader("Typed-On-Stdin-1\n"), output));
+			Assert.Equal(1, await AdminCommands.Run(new[] { "create-root", login }, scope.ServiceProvider, new StringReader("Typed-On-Stdin-2\n"), new StringWriter()));
+			Assert.Equal(1, await AdminCommands.Run(new[] { "create-root", $"weak{Guid.NewGuid():N}"[..20] }, scope.ServiceProvider, new StringReader("short\n"), new StringWriter()));
+			Assert.Equal(2, await AdminCommands.Run(new[] { "create-root", login, "--root" }, scope.ServiceProvider, new StringReader("Typed-On-Stdin-3\n"), new StringWriter()));
+
+			Assert.Equal(HttpStatusCode.OK, await LogIn(login, "Typed-On-Stdin-1"));
+			var stored = await DB.Default.Find<RootUser>().Match(u => u.UserName == login).ExecuteFirstAsync(TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+			Assert.Contains(Policies.IsAdmin, stored.Policies);
+		}
+
+		[Fact]
+		public async Task Smoke_keeps_one_undiscoverable_persona_and_a_new_password_each_run()
+		{
+			using var scope = _host.Services.CreateScope();
+			var persona = $"smoke{Guid.NewGuid():N}"[..20];
+			var first = new StringWriter();
+			var second = new StringWriter();
+
+			Assert.Equal(0, await AdminCommands.Run(new[] { "smoke", persona }, scope.ServiceProvider, output: first));
+			Assert.Equal(0, await AdminCommands.Run(new[] { "smoke", persona }, scope.ServiceProvider, output: second));
+
+			var (login, oldPassword) = (first.ToString().Trim().Split(' ')[0], first.ToString().Trim().Split(' ')[1]);
+			var newPassword = second.ToString().Trim().Split(' ')[1];
+			Assert.Equal(AdminCommands.SmokeLogin, login);
+			Assert.NotEqual(oldPassword, newPassword);
+			Assert.Equal(HttpStatusCode.OK, await LogIn(login, newPassword));
+			Assert.NotEqual(HttpStatusCode.OK, await LogIn(login, oldPassword));
+			var avatars = await DB.Default.Find<Avatar>().Match(a => a.UserName == persona).ExecuteAsync(TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+			var avatar = Assert.Single(avatars);
+			Assert.False(avatar.Settings.IsDiscoverable);
+			Assert.False(avatar.Settings.IsIndexable);
+		}
 	}
 }
@@ -0,0 +1,125 @@
+using MaxMind.Db;
+
+using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Abstractions;
+
+using PrivaPub.Infrastructure.Geo;
+using PrivaPub.Infrastructure.Statistics;
+using PrivaPub.Tests.Support;
+
+using System.IO.Compression;
+
+namespace PrivaPub.Tests.Infrastructure
+{
+	public sealed class GeoUpdaterTests : IAsyncLifetime
+	{
+		static readonly DateTime Now = new(2026, 10, 4, 12, 0, 0, DateTimeKind.Utc);
+		static readonly DateTime LastMonth = new(2026, 9, 2, 0, 0, 0, DateTimeKind.Utc);
+
+		readonly string _directory = Path.Combine(Path.GetTempPath(), $"privapub-geo-{Guid.NewGuid():N}");
+		Peer _peer;
+		GeoUpdater _updater;
+		DbIpLocator _locator;
+
+		public async ValueTask InitializeAsync()
+		{
+			_peer = await Peer.Start();
+			var options = new StaticOptions<StatisticsOptions>(new StatisticsOptions
+			{
+				GeoDirectory = _directory,
+				Geo = new GeoOptions { DownloadBase = $"{_peer.A}/free" }
+			});
+			_locator = new DbIpLocator(options, NullLogger<DbIpLocator>.Instance);
+			_updater = new GeoUpdater(new Clients(), options, _locator, NullLogger<GeoUpdater>.Instance);
+		}
+
+		public async ValueTask DisposeAsync()
+		{
+			_locator?.Dispose();
+			await _peer.DisposeAsync();
+			if (Directory.Exists(_directory))
+				Directory.Delete(_directory, recursive: true);
+		}
+
+		sealed class Clients : IHttpClientFactory
+		{
+			public HttpClient CreateClient(string name) => new();
+		}
+
+		static byte[] Gzip(byte[] bytes)
+		{
+			using var output = new MemoryStream();
+			using (var gzip = new GZipStream(output, CompressionLevel.Fastest))
+				gzip.Write(bytes);
+			return output.ToArray();
+		}
+
+		void Publish(string kind, DateTime month, byte[] database) =>
+			_peer.ServeFile($"/free/dbip-{kind}-lite-{month:yyyy-MM}.mmdb.gz", Gzip(database), "application/gzip");
+
+		static byte[] City(DateTime built) => MiniMmdb.Build("DBIP-City-Lite", built);
+		static byte[] Asn(DateTime built) => MiniMmdb.Build("DBIP-ASN-Lite (compat=GeoLite2-ASN)", built);
+
+		DateTime Built(string kind)
+		{
+			using var reader = new Reader(Path.Combine(_directory, GeoUpdater.FileOf(kind)));
+			return reader.Metadata.BuildDate;
+		}
+
+		[Fact]
+		public async Task Missing_databases_are_fetched_checked_and_read_at_once()
+		{
+			Publish("city", Now, City(Now));
+			Publish("asn", Now, Asn(Now));
+
+			Assert.Equal(2, await _updater.Update(Now, TestContext.Current.CancellationToken));
+
+			Assert.Equal(Now.Date, Built("city").Date);
+			Assert.Equal(Now.Date, Built("asn").Date);
+			Assert.Equal("DB-IP Lite 2026-10", _locator.Source);
+			Assert.Empty(Directory.GetFiles(_directory).Where(f => f.EndsWith(".part") || f.EndsWith(".new")));
+		}
+
+		[Fact]
+		public async Task Early_in_the_month_last_months_database_is_used_and_not_fetched_again()
+		{
+			Publish("city", LastMonth, City(LastMonth));
+			Publish("asn", LastMonth, Asn(LastMonth));
+
+			Assert.Equal(2, await _updater.Update(Now, TestContext.Current.CancellationToken));
+			var asked = _peer.Requests.Count;
+			Assert.Equal(0, await _updater.Update(Now, TestContext.Current.CancellationToken));
+
+			Assert.Equal(LastMonth.Date, Built("city").Date);
+			Assert.DoesNotContain(_peer.Requests.Skip(asked), r => r.Path.Contains("2026-09"));
+		}
+
+		[Fact]
+		public async Task A_current_database_asks_nothing()
+		{
+			Publish("city", Now, City(Now));
+			Publish("asn", Now, Asn(Now));
+			await _updater.Update(Now, TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+			var asked = _peer.Requests.Count;
+
+			Assert.Equal(0, await _updater.Update(Now.AddDays(1), TestContext.Current.CancellationToken));
+
+			Assert.Equal(asked, _peer.Requests.Count);
+		}
+
+		[Fact]
+		public async Task A_broken_or_wrong_database_is_refused_and_the_old_one_kept()
+		{
+			Publish("city", LastMonth, City(LastMonth));
+			Publish("asn", LastMonth, Asn(LastMonth));
+			await _updater.Update(LastMonth.AddDays(1), TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+			Publish("city", Now, "not a database at all"u8.ToArray());
+			Publish("asn", Now, City(Now));
+
+			Assert.Equal(0, await _updater.Update(Now, TestContext.Current.CancellationToken));
+
+			Assert.Equal(LastMonth.Date, Built("city").Date);
+			Assert.Equal(LastMonth.Date, Built("asn").Date);
+			Assert.Empty(Directory.GetFiles(_directory).Where(f => f.EndsWith(".part") || f.EndsWith(".new")));
+		}
+	}
+}
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Tests.Support.Host
 		public static async Task<Root> Admin(this PrivaPubHost host)
 		{
 			var root = await host.SignUp("admin");
-			Assert.Equal(0, await AdminCommands.Run(new[] { "promote", root.UserName }));
+			Assert.Equal(0, await AdminCommands.Run(new[] { "promote", root.UserName }, host.Services));
 			return await host.LogIn(root);
 		}

@@ -73,6 +73,8 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Tests.Support.Host
 			["Federation:AllowPrivateNetworks"] = "true",
 			["Federation:AllowPlainHttp"] = "true",
 			["Federation:FetchLinkPreviews"] = "false",
+			["Registrations:Mode"] = "Open",
+			["Statistics:Geo:AutoUpdate"] = "false",
 			["Media:Root"] = _mediaRoot,
 			["Logging:LogLevel:Default"] = "Warning",
 			["Serilog:MinimumLevel:Default"] = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("PRIVAPUB_TEST_LOGS") == "1" ? "Information" : "Fatal"
@@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
+using System.Text;
+
+namespace PrivaPub.Tests.Support
+{
+	// The smallest MaxMind DB the reader accepts (https://maxmind.github.io/MaxMind-DB/): an IPv4 search tree of one node
+	// whose two records both mean "no data", an empty data section, and the metadata map, which is all a test of the updater
+	// needs to tell a city database from an ASN one and to read its build date.
+	public static class MiniMmdb
+	{
+		public static byte[] Build(string databaseType, DateTime built)
+		{
+			using var output = new MemoryStream();
+			const uint nodeCount = 1;
+			for (var record = 0; record < 2; record++)
+				output.Write(new byte[] { 0, 0, (byte)nodeCount });//24-bit records equal to node_count: not found
+			output.Write(new byte[16]);//data section separator; the data section itself is empty
+			output.Write(new byte[] { 0xAB, 0xCD, 0xEF });
+			output.Write(Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("MaxMind.com"));
+			Map(output,
+				("binary_format_major_version", w => UInt16(w, 2)),
+				("binary_format_minor_version", w => UInt16(w, 0)),
+				("build_epoch", w => UInt64(w, (ulong)new DateTimeOffset(built).ToUnixTimeSeconds())),
+				("database_type", w => Text(w, databaseType)),
+				("description", w => Map(w, ("en", x => Text(x, "a test database")))),
+				("ip_version", w => UInt16(w, 4)),
+				("languages", w => Array(w, x => Text(x, "en"))),
+				("node_count", w => UInt32(w, nodeCount)),
+				("record_size", w => UInt16(w, 24)));
+			return output.ToArray();
+		}
+
+		// type in the top three bits (0 and an extra byte for the extended types), size below 29 in the low five, or 29 and the
+		// rest in one more byte (names longer than 28 characters need it)
+		static void Control(Stream output, int type, int size)
+		{
+			var low = size < 29 ? size : 29;
+			output.WriteByte((byte)((type <= 7 ? type : 0) << 5 | low));
+			if (type > 7)
+				output.WriteByte((byte)(type - 7));
+			if (size >= 29)
+				output.WriteByte((byte)(size - 29));
+		}
+
+		static void Text(Stream output, string value)
+		{
+			var bytes = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(value);
+			Control(output, 2, bytes.Length);
+			output.Write(bytes);
+		}
+
+		static void Unsigned(Stream output, int type, ulong value)
+		{
+			var bytes = BitConverter.GetBytes(value).Reverse().SkipWhile(b => b == 0).ToArray();
+			Control(output, type, bytes.Length);
+			output.Write(bytes);
+		}
+
+		static void UInt16(Stream output, ushort value) => Unsigned(output, 5, value);
+		static void UInt32(Stream output, uint value) => Unsigned(output, 6, value);
+		static void UInt64(Stream output, ulong value) => Unsigned(output, 9, value);
+
+		static void Map(Stream output, params (string Key, Action<Stream> Value)[] entries)
+		{
+			Control(output, 7, entries.Length);
+			foreach (var (key, value) in entries)
+			{
+				Text(output, key);
+				value(output);
+			}
+		}
+
+		static void Array(Stream output, params Action<Stream>[] items)
+		{
+			Control(output, 11, items.Length);
+			foreach (var item in items)
+				item(output);
+		}
+	}
+}
@@ -1,11 +1,13 @@
 using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Authorization;
 using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc;
+using Microsoft.Extensions.Options;

 using MongoDB.Entities;

 using PrivaPub.Api.Mastodon.Infrastructure;
 using PrivaPub.Domain.Privacy;
 using PrivaPub.Federation.Actors;
+using PrivaPub.Infrastructure;
 using PrivaPub.Models.User;

 using PostEntity = PrivaPub.Models.Post.Post;
@@ -18,12 +20,16 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Api.Mastodon.Controllers
 		const string Description = "A small ActivityPub server where one private login keeps several unlinkable public personas.";

 		readonly ILocalActorService _localActors;
+		readonly IOptionsMonitor<RegistrationOptions> _registrations;

-		public InstanceController(ILocalActorService localActors)
+		public InstanceController(ILocalActorService localActors, IOptionsMonitor<RegistrationOptions> registrations)
 		{
 			_localActors = localActors;
+			_registrations = registrations;
 		}

+		bool Open => _registrations.CurrentValue.IsOpen;
+
 		string Domain => new Uri(_localActors.BaseAddress).Authority;

 		static object Statuses => new { max_characters = 5000, max_media_attachments = 4, characters_reserved_per_url = 23 };
@@ -58,9 +64,9 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Api.Mastodon.Controllers
 				stats = new { user_count = users, status_count = statuses, domain_count = domains },
 				thumbnail = $"{_localActors.BaseAddress}/media/missing-header.png",
 				languages = new[] { "en" },
-				registrations = false,
+				registrations = Open,
 				approval_required = false,
-				invites_enabled = false,
+				invites_enabled = true,//a group invitation always creates an account
 				configuration = new { accounts = new { max_featured_tags = 0 }, statuses = Statuses, media_attachments = MediaAttachments, polls = Polls },
 				contact_account = default(object),
 				rules = Array.Empty<object>()
@@ -88,7 +94,7 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Api.Mastodon.Controllers
 				polls = Polls,
 				translation = new { enabled = false }
 			},
-			registrations = new { enabled = false, approval_required = false, message = default(string) },
+			registrations = new { enabled = Open, approval_required = false, message = Open ? default : RegistrationOptions.ClosedMessage },
 			contact = new { email = string.Empty, account = default(object) },
 			rules = Array.Empty<object>()
 		});
@@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Api.Mastodon.Controllers
 			await DB.Default.Update<PostEntity>().MatchID(post.ID).Modify(p => p.LocalQuotePolicy, policy).ExecuteAsync(token);
 			post.LocalQuotePolicy = policy;
 			if (!post.IsLocalOnly)
-				await _outbox.Publish(Me, post, ActivityPubRenderer.UpdateOf(post, Me, $"policy-{DateTime.UtcNow.Ticks}"), token);
+				await _outbox.PublishUpdate(Me, post, $"policy-{DateTime.UtcNow.Ticks}", token);
 			return Json(await _mapper.Status(post, MyId, token));
 		}

@@ -202,8 +202,8 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Api.Mastodon.Mappers

 			Status Map(PostEntity post)
 			{
-				if (!accounts.TryGetValue(AuthorOf(post), out var account))
-					return default;
+				if (AuthorOf(post) is not { } author || !accounts.TryGetValue(author, out var account))
+					return default;//a post whose author we cannot show is left out, never a 500
 				var status = new Status
 				{
 					Id = post.ID,
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Controllers.ClientToServer
 		readonly ILocalActorService LocalActors;
 		readonly AuthTokenManager AuthTokenManager;
 		readonly IOptionsMonitor<AppConfiguration> AppConfiguration;
+		readonly IOptionsMonitor<RegistrationOptions> Registrations;
 		readonly ILogger<RootUserController> Logger;
 		readonly IStringLocalizer Localizer;

@@ -43,9 +44,11 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Controllers.ClientToServer
 				ILocalActorService localActors,
 				AuthTokenManager authTokenManager,
 				IOptionsMonitor<AppConfiguration> appConfiguration,
+				IOptionsMonitor<RegistrationOptions> registrations,
 				IStringLocalizer<GenericRes> localizer,
 				ILogger<RootUserController> logger)
 		{
+			Registrations = registrations;
 			UsersService = usersService;
 			GroupUsersService = groupUsersService;
 			AvatarUsersService = avatarUsersService;
@@ -63,6 +66,8 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Controllers.ClientToServer
 		{
 			if (User.Identity?.IsAuthenticated ?? false) return Redirect("/");
 			var result = new WebResult();
+			if (!Registrations.CurrentValue.IsOpen)
+				return StatusCode(StatusCodes.Status403Forbidden, result.Invalidate(Localizer[RegistrationOptions.ClosedMessage], StatusCodes.Status403Forbidden));
 			if (!ModelState.IsValid)
 				return BadRequest(result.Invalidate(Localizer["Invalid model."]));
 			try
@@ -356,7 +361,7 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Controllers.ClientToServer
 				if (!result.IsValid)
 					return StatusCode(result.StatusCode, result);

-				return Ok(result);
+				return Ok(result.Data);//the same sentence for everyone
 			}
 			catch (Exception ex)
 			{
@@ -409,26 +414,23 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Controllers.ClientToServer
 			}
 		}

-		//[HttpDelete, Route("delete"), Authorize(Policy = Policies.IsUser)]
-		//public async Task<IActionResult> RemoveSelf()
-		//{
-		//	var result = new WebResult();
-		//	try
-		//	{
-		//		//result = await UsersService.RemoveUserAsync(User.GetUserId());
-		//		if (!result.IsValid)
-		//			return StatusCode(result.StatusCode, result);
-
-		//		await HttpContext.SignOutAsync();
-
-		//		return Ok();
-		//	}
-		//	catch (Exception ex)
-		//	{
-		//		Logger.LogError(ex, $"{nameof(User)}.{nameof(RemoveSelf)}()");
-		//		return BadRequest(result.Invalidate(Localizer["Something went wrong."]));
-		//	}
-		//}
+		[HttpPost, Route("/clientapi/user/delete"), EnableRateLimiting(RateLimiting.Accounts), Authorize(Policy = Policies.IsUser)]
+		public async Task<IActionResult> RemoveSelf(RemoveSelfForm form)
+		{
+			var result = new WebResult();
+			if (!ModelState.IsValid)
+				return BadRequest(result.Invalidate(Localizer["Invalid model."]));
+			try
+			{
+				result = await UsersService.RemoveSelfAsync(User.GetUserId(), form.Password);
+				return result.IsValid ? Ok() : StatusCode(result.StatusCode, result);
+			}
+			catch (Exception ex)
+			{
+				Logger.LogError(ex, $"{nameof(User)}.{nameof(RemoveSelf)}()");
+				return BadRequest(result.Invalidate(Localizer["Something went wrong."]));
+			}
+		}

 		#endregion User endpoints

@@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Domain.Statuses
 				return JobOutcome.Done;
 			await Closing(post, author, token);
 			if (!post.IsLocalOnly)
-				await _outbox.Publish(author, post, ActivityPubRenderer.UpdateOf(post, author, $"poll-{DateTime.UtcNow.Ticks}"), token);
+				await _outbox.PublishUpdate(author, post, $"poll-{DateTime.UtcNow.Ticks}", token);
 			return JobOutcome.Done;
 		}

@@ -239,7 +239,7 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Domain.Statuses
 				.ExecuteAsync(token);
 			await DB.Default.Update<PostEntity>().MatchID(quoted.ID).Modify(b => b.Inc(p => p.QuotesCount, 1)).ExecuteAsync(token);
 			if (!post.IsLocalOnly)
-				await _outbox.Publish(author, post, ActivityPubRenderer.UpdateOf(post, author, "quote-approved"), token);
+				await _outbox.PublishUpdate(author, post, "quote-approved", token);
 			return true;
 		}

@@ -119,6 +119,11 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Domain.Statuses
 				return StatusOutcome.Fail(StatusCodes.Status404NotFound, "Record not found");
 			if (parent != default && !await VisibilityPolicy.CanSee(parent, author.Id, token))
 				return StatusOutcome.Fail(StatusCodes.Status404NotFound, "Record not found");
+			// a reply in a circle stays in the circle, whichever client wrote it: Mastodon clients know nothing of groups
+			if (group == default && parent is { Visibility: PostVisibility.Circle } && !string.IsNullOrEmpty(parent.GroupId)
+				&& await _dbEntities.Groups.MatchID(parent.GroupId).ExecuteFirstAsync(token) is { DeletionAt: null } parentCircle
+				&& await MayPost(parentCircle, author, token))
+				group = _localActors.FromGroup(parentCircle);

 			PostEntity quoted = default;
 			var quotePermission = QuotePermission.Denied;
@@ -161,6 +166,9 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Domain.Statuses
 			var visibility = located ? PostVisibility.LocalGeo
 				: group is { IsCircle: true } ? PostVisibility.Circle
 				: draft.Visibility is PostVisibility.Circle or PostVisibility.LocalGeo ? PostVisibility.Public : draft.Visibility;
+			// asking a quoted post's author for permission would show them the circle post
+			if (visibility == PostVisibility.Circle && quoted != default && quotePermission != QuotePermission.Granted)
+				return StatusOutcome.Fail(StatusCodes.Status422UnprocessableEntity, "Validation failed: A circle post can only quote a post that needs no permission");
 			var post = new PostEntity
 			{
 				GroupUserId = author.Id,
@@ -340,7 +348,7 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Domain.Statuses
 			{
 				var delete = ActivityPubRenderer.Delete(author, post.ObjectURI, $"delete-{post.ID}",
 					new JsonArray(post.To.Select(t => (JsonNode)t).ToArray()), new JsonArray(post.Cc.Select(c => (JsonNode)c).ToArray()));
-				await _delivery.Enqueue(author, audience, delete, token);
+				await _outbox.Publish(author, post, delete, token);//the post in hand still has its group and mentions
 				var group = string.IsNullOrEmpty(post.GroupId) ? default : await _localActors.FindById(LocalActorKind.Group, post.GroupId, token);
 				if (group is { IsCircle: false })
 					await _groups.Announce(group, delete, post.ObjectURI, isNewPost: false, token);
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Federation.Actors
 	{
 		string BaseAddress { get; }
 		Task<LocalActor> FindByUserName(string userName, CancellationToken token);
+		Task<GoneActor> Gone(string userName, CancellationToken token);
 		Task<LocalActor> FindById(LocalActorKind kind, string id, CancellationToken token);
 		Task<LocalActor> FindByUri(string actorUri, CancellationToken token);
 		Task<LocalActor> GetInstanceActor(CancellationToken token);
@@ -71,6 +72,9 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Federation.Actors
 		LocalActor FromGroup(GroupEntity group);
 	}

+	// a persona or group that was deleted: its name stays reserved, and its documents answer 410 with this
+	public sealed record GoneActor(string Uri, string FormerType, DateTime DeletedAt);
+
 	public class LocalActorService : ILocalActorService
 	{
 		public const string InstanceUserName = "privapub";
@@ -113,6 +117,18 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Federation.Actors
 			return group == default ? default : FromGroup(group);
 		}

+		public async Task<GoneActor> Gone(string userName, CancellationToken token)
+		{
+			if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(userName))
+				return default;
+			userName = userName.ToLowerInvariant();
+			var avatar = await _dbEntities.Avatars.Match(a => a.UserName == userName && a.DeletionAt.HasValue).ExecuteFirstAsync(token);
+			if (avatar != default)
+				return new GoneActor($"{BaseAddress}/peasants/{avatar.UserName}", "Person", avatar.DeletionAt.Value);
+			var group = await _dbEntities.Groups.Match(g => g.UserName == userName && g.DeletionAt.HasValue).ExecuteFirstAsync(token);
+			return group == default ? default : new GoneActor($"{BaseAddress}/peasants/{group.UserName}", "Group", group.DeletionAt.Value);
+		}
+
 		public async Task<LocalActor> FindById(LocalActorKind kind, string id, CancellationToken token)
 		{
 			switch (kind)
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ using PrivaPub.Domain.Privacy;
 using PrivaPub.Federation.Actors;
 using PrivaPub.Federation.Rendering;
 using PrivaPub.Federation.Inbox;
+using PrivaPub.Federation.Outbox;
 using PrivaPub.Federation.Signing;
 using PrivaPub.Infrastructure.Http;
 using PrivaPub.Models.Group;
@@ -52,6 +53,20 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Federation.Controllers
 		public async Task<IActionResult> GetActor(string actor, CancellationToken token)
 		{
 			var local = await _localActors.FindByUserName(actor, token);
+			if (local == default && await _localActors.Gone(actor, token) is { } gone)
+				return new ContentResult
+				{
+					Content = new JsonObject
+					{
+						["@context"] = ActivityPubRenderer.ActivityStreams,
+						["id"] = gone.Uri,
+						["type"] = "Tombstone",
+						["formerType"] = gone.FormerType,
+						["deleted"] = ActivityPubRenderer.Timestamp(gone.DeletedAt)
+					}.ToJsonString(),
+					ContentType = ActivityContentType,
+					StatusCode = StatusCodes.Status410Gone
+				};
 			if (local is not { IsFederated: true })
 				return NotFound();
 			if (WantsHtml() && local.Kind != LocalActorKind.Application)
@@ -185,11 +200,13 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Federation.Controllers
 		public async Task<IActionResult> Post(string actor, string postId, CancellationToken token)
 		{
 			var (local, post) = await PublicPost(actor, postId, token);
-			if (post == default && await CirclePost(actor, postId, token) is { } circlePost)
+			if (post == default && await SignedPost(actor, postId, token) is { } signed)
 			{
-				var circleNote = ActivityPubRenderer.Note(circlePost.Post, circlePost.Author, circlePost.Circle, circlePost.Post.InReplyToURI);
-				circleNote["@context"] = ActivityPubRenderer.Context();
-				return Activity(circleNote);
+				if (signed.Post.DeletedAt.HasValue)
+					return TombstoneOf(signed.Author, signed.Post);
+				var signedNote = (JsonObject)signed.Note.DeepClone();
+				signedNote["@context"] = ActivityPubRenderer.Context();
+				return Activity(signedNote);
 			}
 			if (post == default)
 				return await Tombstone(actor, postId, token) ?? NotFound();
@@ -243,13 +260,44 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Federation.Controllers
 			if (!activityId.StartsWith("create-", StringComparison.Ordinal))
 				return NotFound();
 			var (local, post) = await PublicPost(actor, activityId["create-".Length..], token);
-			return post == default ? NotFound() : Activity(await CreateFor(post, local, token));
+			if (post != default)
+				return Activity(await CreateFor(post, local, token));
+			return await SignedPost(actor, activityId["create-".Length..], token) is { Post.DeletedAt: null } signed
+				? Activity(ActivityPubRenderer.Create(signed.Author, (JsonObject)signed.Note.DeepClone(), activityId))
+				: NotFound();
+		}
+
+		// A DM's `context`: the conversation's posts, for its participants (or their servers' instance actors) only.
+		[HttpGet, Route("{actor}/whispers/{conversationId}")]
+		public async Task<IActionResult> Whispers(string actor, string conversationId, CancellationToken token)
+		{
+			var local = await _localActors.FindByUserName(actor, token);
+			if (local is not { IsFederated: true, Kind: LocalActorKind.Person })
+				return NotFound();
+			var uri = local.ConversationUri(conversationId);
+			var conversation = await _dbEntities.DmGroups.Match(g => g.ID == conversationId && g.ConversationURI == uri && !g.DeletionAt.HasValue).ExecuteFirstAsync(token);
+			if (conversation == default || !SignedFetchAuthorizer.MayReadConversation(conversation, await _fetches.Requester(Request, token)))
+				return NotFound();
+			var posts = await _dbEntities.Posts
+				.Match(p => p.ConversationId == conversationId && p.Visibility == PostVisibility.Direct && !p.DeletedAt.HasValue)
+				.Sort(p => p.CreationDate, Order.Ascending)
+				.ExecuteAsync(token);
+			return Activity(new JsonObject
+			{
+				["@context"] = ActivityPubRenderer.ActivityStreams,
+				["id"] = uri,
+				["type"] = "OrderedCollection",
+				["totalItems"] = posts.Count,
+				["orderedItems"] = new JsonArray(posts.Select(p => (JsonNode)p.ObjectURI).ToArray())
+			});
 		}

 		[HttpPost, Route("{actor}/mouth"), EnableRateLimiting(RateLimiting.Inbox)]
 		public async Task<IActionResult> Inbox(string actor, CancellationToken token)
 		{
 			var local = await _localActors.FindByUserName(actor, token);
+			if (local == default && await _localActors.Gone(actor, token) != default)
+				return StatusCode(StatusCodes.Status410Gone);
 			if (local is not { IsFederated: true })
 				return Answer(_inbox.NoSuchRecipient(Request));
 			return Answer(await _inbox.Receive(Request, local, token));
@@ -275,18 +323,37 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Federation.Controllers
 			return (local, post);
 		}

-		async Task<(LocalActor Author, LocalActor Circle, PostEntity Post)?> CirclePost(string actor, string postId, CancellationToken token)
+		// A followers-only, direct or circle post (deleted ones included), for a signed request from someone it was for
+		// (SignedFetchAuthorizer.MayRead). It is rendered as it was delivered: a circle post also names, in cc, the requesting
+		// member, or the members on the requesting instance actor's server.
+		async Task<(LocalActor Author, PostEntity Post, JsonObject Note)?> SignedPost(string actor, string postId, CancellationToken token)
 		{
 			var local = await _localActors.FindByUserName(actor, token);
-			if (local is not { Kind: LocalActorKind.Person })
+			if (local is not { IsFederated: true, Kind: LocalActorKind.Person })
 				return default;
 			var post = await _dbEntities.Posts
-				.Match(p => p.ID == postId && p.GroupUserId == local.Id && !p.IsFederatedCopy && !p.DeletedAt.HasValue && p.Visibility == PostVisibility.Circle)
+				.Match(p => p.ID == postId && p.GroupUserId == local.Id && !p.IsFederatedCopy && p.ReblogOfPostId == null
+					&& (p.Visibility == PostVisibility.FollowersOnly || p.Visibility == PostVisibility.Direct || p.Visibility == PostVisibility.Circle))
 				.ExecuteFirstAsync(token);
-			var circle = post == default ? default : await _dbEntities.Groups.MatchID(post.GroupId).ExecuteFirstAsync(token);
-			if (circle == default || !SignedFetchAuthorizer.MayReadCircle(circle, await _fetches.Requester(Request, token)))
+			if (post == default)
 				return default;
-			return (local, _localActors.FromGroup(circle), post);
+			var requester = await _fetches.Requester(Request, token);
+			if (!await _fetches.MayRead(post, requester, token))
+				return default;
+			if (post.Visibility == PostVisibility.Circle)
+			{
+				var circle = await _dbEntities.Groups.MatchID(post.GroupId).ExecuteFirstAsync(token);
+				var note = ActivityPubRenderer.Note(post, local, _localActors.FromGroup(circle), post.InReplyToURI);
+				var readers = SignedFetchAuthorizer.CircleReaders(circle, requester);
+				var named = readers.Count == 0 ? new List<Models.User.ForeignAvatar>() : await _dbEntities.ForeignAvatars.Match(a => readers.Contains(a.ActorURI)).ExecuteAsync(token);
+				return (local, post, OutboxPublisher.Naming(note, named));
+			}
+			var rendered = post.Visibility == PostVisibility.Direct
+				? ActivityPubRenderer.DirectNote(post, local, Array.Empty<(string, string)>(), post.ContextURI)
+				: ActivityPubRenderer.Note(post, local, default, post.InReplyToURI);
+			rendered["to"] = new JsonArray(post.To.Select(t => (JsonNode)t).ToArray());
+			rendered["cc"] = new JsonArray(post.Cc.Select(c => (JsonNode)c).ToArray());
+			return (local, post, rendered);
 		}

 		async Task<IActionResult> Tombstone(string actor, string postId, CancellationToken token)
@@ -298,8 +365,11 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Federation.Controllers
 				.Match(p => p.ID == postId && p.GroupUserId == local.Id && !p.IsFederatedCopy && p.DeletedAt.HasValue
 					&& (p.Visibility == PostVisibility.Public || p.Visibility == PostVisibility.Unlisted))
 				.ExecuteFirstAsync(token);
-			if (deleted == default)
-				return default;
+			return deleted == default ? default : TombstoneOf(local, deleted);
+		}
+
+		ContentResult TombstoneOf(LocalActor local, PostEntity deleted)
+		{
 			var tombstone = new JsonObject
 			{
 				["@context"] = ActivityPubRenderer.ActivityStreams,
@@ -349,7 +419,9 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Federation.Controllers
 		{
 			if (HttpMethods.IsGet(Request.Method))
 				Response.Headers.Vary = "Accept";
-			if (_federation.CurrentValue.SecureMode && HttpMethods.IsGet(Request.Method)
+			// SecureMode asks every reader of ActivityPub documents for a signature, except for the instance actor, whose key
+			// peers need first, and except for browsers, which only get redirected to the public pages
+			if (_federation.CurrentValue.SecureMode && HttpMethods.IsGet(Request.Method) && !WantsHtml()
 				&& !string.Equals(context.RouteData.Values["actor"] as string, LocalActorService.InstanceUserName, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase)
 				&& await _fetches.Requester(Request, HttpContext.RequestAborted) == default)
 			{
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc;
+using Microsoft.Extensions.Options;

 using MongoDB.Entities;

@@ -12,6 +13,7 @@ using System.Text.Json.Nodes;
 using PostEntity = PrivaPub.Models.Post.Post;
 using PrivaPub.Domain.Privacy;
 using PrivaPub.Federation.Actors;
+using PrivaPub.Infrastructure;

 namespace PrivaPub.Federation.Controllers
 {
@@ -20,9 +22,11 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Federation.Controllers
 	{
 		readonly ILocalActorService _localActors;
 		readonly DbEntities _dbEntities;
+		readonly IOptionsMonitor<RegistrationOptions> _registrations;

-		public WellKnownController(ILocalActorService localActors, DbEntities dbEntities)
+		public WellKnownController(ILocalActorService localActors, DbEntities dbEntities, IOptionsMonitor<RegistrationOptions> registrations)
 		{
+			_registrations = registrations;
 			_localActors = localActors;
 			_dbEntities = dbEntities;
 		}
@@ -45,6 +49,8 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Federation.Controllers
 				if (parts.Length != 2 || !parts[1].Equals(domain, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
 					return NotFound();
 				actor = await _localActors.FindByUserName(parts[0], token);
+				if (actor == default && await _localActors.Gone(parts[0], token) != default)
+					return StatusCode(StatusCodes.Status410Gone);
 			}
 			else
 				actor = await _localActors.FindByUri(resource, token);
@@ -102,7 +108,7 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Federation.Controllers
 				["software"] = software,
 				["protocols"] = new JsonArray("activitypub"),
 				["services"] = new JsonObject { ["inbound"] = new JsonArray(), ["outbound"] = new JsonArray() },
-				["openRegistrations"] = true,
+				["openRegistrations"] = _registrations.CurrentValue.IsOpen,
 				["usage"] = new JsonObject
 				{
 					["users"] = new JsonObject { ["total"] = users },
@@ -15,8 +15,15 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Federation.Inbox
 	{
 		public const int MaxRevisions = 20;

+		//newer than what we hold; or, for a first edit, no older and actually different, because GoToSocial's timestamps are
+		//whole seconds and an edit made in the second the post was published carries updated == published
 		public static bool IsEdit(NoteDocument note, PostEntity post) =>
-			note.Updated is { } updated && updated > (post.EditedAt ?? post.CreationDate);
+			note.Updated is { } updated
+			&& (updated > (post.EditedAt ?? post.CreationDate)
+				|| post.EditedAt == default && updated >= post.CreationDate && Changed(note, post));
+
+		static bool Changed(NoteDocument note, PostEntity post) =>
+			note.ContentHtml != post.ContentHtml || note.SpoilerText != post.SpoilerText || note.Title != post.Title || note.Sensitive != post.HasContentWarning;

 		public static async Task<bool> Apply(PostEntity post, NoteDocument note, string activityId, ILocalActorService localActors, IObjectRecords records,
 			IQuoteService quotes, CancellationToken token)
@@ -137,11 +137,18 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Federation.Objects
 				JsonValue value when value.TryGetValue<string>(out var at) => Moment(at),
 				_ => default
 			};
+			var expiresAt = Moment(Value(note, "endTime"));
+			// Pleroma and Akkoma put an open poll's end in `closed`, often without `endTime`: it is closed once that has passed
+			if (closedAt > DateTime.UtcNow)
+			{
+				expiresAt ??= closedAt;
+				closedAt = default;
+			}
 			return new PostPoll
 			{
 				Options = options,
 				Multiple = multiple,
-				ExpiresAt = Moment(Value(note, "endTime")),
+				ExpiresAt = expiresAt,
 				ClosedAt = closedAt,
 				VotersCount = Int(note, "votersCount")
 			};
@@ -40,6 +40,8 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Federation.Outbox
 				["audience"] = group.Uri,
 				["object"] = embedded
 			};
+			// Every follower, the author's own server included: Lemmy 1.0 keeps its user's post pending until the community
+			// announces it back, and clears that before it answers the echo 400 ("Object is not remote").
 			await _delivery.EnqueueToFollowers(group, announce, token);
 			if (isNewPost && !string.IsNullOrEmpty(objectUri))
 				await _delivery.EnqueueToFollowers(group, ActivityPubRenderer.Announce(group, objectUri, $"announce-object-{key}"), token);
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ using PrivaPub.Federation.Actors;
 using PrivaPub.Federation.Rendering;
 using PrivaPub.Models.Federation;
 using PrivaPub.Models.Post;
+using PrivaPub.Models.User;
 using PrivaPub.StaticServices;

 using System.Text.Json.Nodes;
@@ -14,6 +15,7 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Federation.Outbox
 	{
 		Task<IReadOnlyList<string>> Audience(LocalActor author, PostEntity post, CancellationToken token);
 		Task Publish(LocalActor author, PostEntity post, JsonObject activity, CancellationToken token);
+		Task PublishUpdate(LocalActor author, PostEntity post, string reason, CancellationToken token);
 		Task PublishProfile(LocalActor actor, CancellationToken token);
 	}

@@ -73,25 +75,79 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Federation.Outbox
 			return inboxes.Where(i => !string.IsNullOrEmpty(i)).Distinct(StringComparer.Ordinal).ToList();
 		}

-		async Task<IReadOnlyList<string>> CircleMembers(string groupId, CancellationToken token)
+		async Task<IReadOnlyList<string>> CircleMembers(string groupId, CancellationToken token) =>
+			(await CircleRecipients(groupId, token)).Select(r => r.InboxURL).Distinct(StringComparer.Ordinal).ToList();
+
+		async Task<IReadOnlyList<ForeignAvatar>> CircleRecipients(string groupId, CancellationToken token)
 		{
 			var circle = string.IsNullOrEmpty(groupId) ? default : await _dbEntities.Groups.MatchID(groupId).ExecuteFirstAsync(token);
 			if (circle == default)
-				return Array.Empty<string>();
+				return Array.Empty<ForeignAvatar>();
 			var remote = circle.Members.Where(m => m.IsForeign).Select(m => m.AvatarId).ToList();
 			if (remote.Count == 0)
-				return Array.Empty<string>();
+				return Array.Empty<ForeignAvatar>();
 			return (await _dbEntities.ForeignAvatars.Match(a => remote.Contains(a.ActorURI)).ExecuteAsync(token))
-				.Select(a => a.InboxURL).Where(i => !string.IsNullOrEmpty(i)).Distinct(StringComparer.Ordinal).ToList();
+				.Where(a => !string.IsNullOrEmpty(a.InboxURL))
+				.ToList();
 		}

 		public async Task Publish(LocalActor author, PostEntity post, JsonObject activity, CancellationToken token)
 		{
+			if (post.Visibility == PostVisibility.Circle)
+			{
+				foreach (var member in await CircleRecipients(post.GroupId, token))
+					await _delivery.Enqueue(author, new[] { member.InboxURL }, Naming(activity, new[] { member }), token);
+				return;
+			}
 			var inboxes = await Audience(author, post, token);
 			if (inboxes.Count > 0)
 				await _delivery.Enqueue(author, inboxes, activity, token);
 		}

+		public async Task PublishUpdate(LocalActor author, PostEntity post, string reason, CancellationToken token)
+		{
+			var group = string.IsNullOrEmpty(post.GroupId) ? default : await _localActors.FindById(LocalActorKind.Group, post.GroupId, token);
+			await Publish(author, post, ActivityPubRenderer.UpdateOf(post, author, group, reason), token);
+		}
+
+		// Mastodon keeps a post only when it names one of its own accounts, and GoToSocial shows a post that is neither
+		// public nor for followers only to the accounts it mentions; a circle post names only the circle. So each member's
+		// copy, or a member's refetch, also names that member in cc and mentions them, silently, in its tags (owner decision
+		// 2026-10-04): it tells each member nothing but that they are in the circle.
+		public static JsonObject Naming(JsonObject activityOrObject, IEnumerable<ForeignAvatar> members)
+		{
+			var named = members.ToList();
+			var copy = (JsonObject)activityOrObject.DeepClone();
+			if (copy["object"] is JsonObject inner)
+			{
+				Name(copy, named, mention: false);
+				if (inner.ContainsKey("to"))
+					Name(inner, named, mention: true);
+			}
+			else
+				Name(copy, named, mention: copy.ContainsKey("attributedTo"));
+			return copy;
+		}
+
+		static void Name(JsonObject node, IReadOnlyList<ForeignAvatar> members, bool mention)
+		{
+			var cc = node["cc"] as JsonArray ?? new JsonArray();
+			var tags = node["tag"] as JsonArray ?? new JsonArray();
+			foreach (var member in members)
+			{
+				if (!cc.Any(c => c?.GetValue<string>() == member.ActorURI))
+					cc.Add(member.ActorURI);
+				if (mention && !tags.Any(t => t?["href"]?.GetValue<string>() == member.ActorURI))
+					tags.Add(new JsonObject { ["type"] = "Mention", ["href"] = member.ActorURI, ["name"] = Handle(member) });
+			}
+			node["cc"] = cc;
+			if (mention)
+				node["tag"] = tags;
+		}
+
+		static string Handle(ForeignAvatar member) =>
+			string.IsNullOrEmpty(member.UserName) ? member.ActorURI : $"@{member.UserName}@{new Uri(member.ActorURI).Authority}";
+
 		public async Task PublishProfile(LocalActor actor, CancellationToken token)
 		{
 			var document = ActivityPubRenderer.Actor(actor);
@@ -138,7 +138,9 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Federation.Rendering
 			{
 				PostVisibility.Circle when group != default => (new JsonArray(group.Uri, group.Flock), new JsonArray(mentions)),
 				PostVisibility.Unlisted => (new JsonArray(author.Followers), new JsonArray(mentions.Prepend(Public).ToArray())),
-				PostVisibility.FollowersOnly => (new JsonArray(author.Followers), new JsonArray(mentions)),
+				// Pleroma and Akkoma call a post private only if a `to` contains "/followers" or its cc is not empty, and ours
+				// are /groupies: with an empty cc every followers-only post would be a DM there. Naming them again says nothing new.
+				PostVisibility.FollowersOnly => (new JsonArray(author.Followers), new JsonArray(mentions.Append(author.Followers).ToArray())),
 				PostVisibility.Direct => (new JsonArray(mentions), new JsonArray()),
 				_ => (new JsonArray(Public), new JsonArray(mentions.Prepend(author.Followers).ToArray()))
 			};
@@ -176,11 +178,11 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Federation.Rendering
 			return note;
 		}

-		public static JsonObject UpdateOf(PostEntity post, LocalActor author, string reason)
+		public static JsonObject UpdateOf(PostEntity post, LocalActor author, LocalActor group, string reason)
 		{
 			var note = post.Visibility == PostVisibility.Direct
 				? DirectNote(post, author, Array.Empty<(string, string)>(), post.ContextURI)
-				: Note(post, author, default, post.InReplyToURI);
+				: Note(post, author, group, post.InReplyToURI);
 			note["to"] = new JsonArray(post.To.Select(t => (JsonNode)t).ToArray());
 			note["cc"] = new JsonArray(post.Cc.Select(c => (JsonNode)c).ToArray());
 			return new JsonObject
@@ -1,23 +1,34 @@
 using PrivaPub.Federation.Actors;
 using PrivaPub.Federation.Objects;
+using PrivaPub.Models.Federation;
+using PrivaPub.Models.Post;
 using PrivaPub.Models.User;
+using PrivaPub.StaticServices;

 using GroupEntity = PrivaPub.Models.Group.Group;
+using PostEntity = PrivaPub.Models.Post.Post;

 namespace PrivaPub.Federation.Signing
 {
 	public interface ISignedFetchAuthorizer
 	{
 		Task<ForeignAvatar> Requester(HttpRequest request, CancellationToken token);
+		Task<bool> MayRead(PostEntity post, ForeignAvatar requester, CancellationToken token);
 	}

+	// Who may refetch a post that is not public (owner decision 2026-10-04). A server that received a followers-only post,
+	// a DM or a circle post refetches it, signed by the account it was for or by its instance actor, and Mastodon deletes its
+	// copy when the refetch answers 404. So the post is served to a signed request from someone it was for, or from the
+	// instance actor of a server where someone it was for lives; everyone else still gets 404.
 	public class SignedFetchAuthorizer : ISignedFetchAuthorizer
 	{
 		readonly IRemoteActorService _remoteActors;
+		readonly DbEntities _dbEntities;

-		public SignedFetchAuthorizer(IRemoteActorService remoteActors)
+		public SignedFetchAuthorizer(IRemoteActorService remoteActors, DbEntities dbEntities)
 		{
 			_remoteActors = remoteActors;
+			_dbEntities = dbEntities;
 		}

 		public async Task<ForeignAvatar> Requester(HttpRequest request, CancellationToken token)
@@ -33,8 +44,48 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Federation.Signing
 			return actor != default && HttpSignatures.Verify(actor.PublicKey, signingString, parameters.Signature) ? actor : default;
 		}

+		public async Task<bool> MayRead(PostEntity post, ForeignAvatar requester, CancellationToken token)
+		{
+			if (post == default || requester == default)
+				return false;
+			switch (post.Visibility)
+			{
+				case PostVisibility.Public or PostVisibility.Unlisted:
+					return true;
+				case PostVisibility.Circle:
+					var circle = string.IsNullOrEmpty(post.GroupId) ? default : await _dbEntities.Groups.MatchID(post.GroupId).ExecuteFirstAsync(token);
+					return circle != default && MayReadCircle(circle, requester);
+				case PostVisibility.Direct:
+					return Addressed(post).Any(uri => Is(requester, uri));
+				case PostVisibility.FollowersOnly:
+					if (Addressed(post).Any(uri => Is(requester, uri)))
+						return true;
+					var followers = await _dbEntities.Followers
+						.Match(f => f.LocalActorId == post.GroupUserId && f.LocalActorKind == LocalActorKind.Person && f.IsAccepted)
+						.ExecuteAsync(token);
+					return followers.Any(f => Is(requester, f.ActorURI));
+				default:
+					return false;
+			}
+		}
+
+		static IEnumerable<string> Addressed(PostEntity post) =>
+			post.To.Concat(post.Cc).Concat(post.Mentions.Select(m => m.ActorURI)).Where(uri => !string.IsNullOrEmpty(uri));
+
+		// the account itself, or the instance actor of the server it lives on
+		static bool Is(ForeignAvatar requester, string actorUri) =>
+			actorUri == requester.ActorURI || requester.AvatarType == AvatarType.Application && Origin.Same(actorUri, requester.ActorURI);
+
 		public static bool MayReadCircle(GroupEntity circle, ForeignAvatar requester) =>
-			requester != default && circle.Members.Any(m => m.IsForeign
-				&& (m.AvatarId == requester.ActorURI || requester.AvatarType == AvatarType.Application && Origin.Same(m.AvatarId, requester.ActorURI)));
+			requester != default && circle.Members.Any(m => m.IsForeign && Is(requester, m.AvatarId));
+
+		public static bool MayReadConversation(Models.Group.DmGroup conversation, ForeignAvatar requester) =>
+			requester != default && conversation.Members.Any(m => m.IsForeign && Is(requester, m.AvatarId));
+
+		// the members a refetch names in cc: the requesting member, or the members on an instance actor's server
+		public static IReadOnlyList<string> CircleReaders(GroupEntity circle, ForeignAvatar requester) =>
+			requester == default
+				? Array.Empty<string>()
+				: circle.Members.Where(m => m.IsForeign && Is(requester, m.AvatarId)).Select(m => m.AvatarId).ToList();
 	}
 }
@@ -1,22 +1,49 @@
 using MongoDB.Entities;

 using PrivaPub.ClientModels;
+using PrivaPub.ClientModels.User;
+using PrivaPub.ClientModels.User.Avatar;
 using PrivaPub.Models.User;
+using PrivaPub.Services;
+using PrivaPub.Services.ClientToServer.Private;
+using PrivaPub.StaticServices;
+
+using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations;
+using System.Security.Cryptography;

 namespace PrivaPub.Infrastructure.Cli
 {
+	// `PrivaPub admin ...` runs with the whole server built but not started: no Kestrel, no hosted services.
 	public static class AdminCommands
 	{
-		const string Usage = "usage: PrivaPub admin promote|demote <root username>";
+		public const string SmokeLogin = "deploy-smoke";

-		public static async Task<int> Run(string[] args)
+		const string Usage = """
+			usage: PrivaPub admin promote|demote <root>
+			       PrivaPub admin create-root <login> [--admin]   the password is read from standard input
+			       PrivaPub admin smoke <persona>                 prints "<login> <password>" for the deploy's signed-in check
+			""";
+
+		public static async Task<int> Run(string[] args, IServiceProvider services, TextReader input = default, TextWriter output = default)
 		{
-			if (args is not [("promote" or "demote") and var verb, var userName])
+			input ??= Console.In;
+			output ??= Console.Out;
+			switch (args)
 			{
+				case [("promote" or "demote") and var verb, var userName]:
+					return await Promote(verb == "promote", userName, output);
+				case ["create-root", var login, .. var flags] when flags.All(f => f == "--admin"):
+					return await CreateRoot(services, login, input.ReadLine(), flags.Contains("--admin"), output);
+				case ["smoke", var persona]:
+					return await Smoke(services, persona, output);
+				default:
 					Console.Error.WriteLine(Usage);
 					return 2;
 			}
+		}

+		static async Task<int> Promote(bool promote, string userName, TextWriter output)
+		{
 			userName = userName.ToLowerInvariant();
 			var user = await DB.Default.Find<RootUser>().Match(u => u.UserName == userName).ExecuteFirstAsync();
 			if (user == default)
@@ -26,14 +53,94 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Infrastructure.Cli
 			}

 			user.Policies.RemoveAll(p => p is Policies.IsAdmin or Policies.IsModerator);
-			if (verb == "promote")
+			if (promote)
 				user.Policies.AddRange(new[] { Policies.IsAdmin, Policies.IsModerator });
 			if (!user.Policies.Contains(Policies.IsUser))
 				user.Policies.Add(Policies.IsUser);
 			user.UpdatedAt = DateTime.UtcNow;
 			await DB.Default.SaveAsync(user);

-			Console.WriteLine($"{userName}: {string.Join(", ", user.Policies)}");
+			output.WriteLine($"{userName}: {string.Join(", ", user.Policies)}");
+			return 0;
+		}
+
+		// With sign-up closed this is how the first root is made; group invitations make the rest.
+		static async Task<int> CreateRoot(IServiceProvider services, string login, string password, bool admin, TextWriter output)
+		{
+			var form = new LoginForm { UserName = login, Password = password?.Trim() };
+			var problems = new List<ValidationResult>();
+			if (!Validator.TryValidateObject(form, new ValidationContext(form), problems, validateAllProperties: true))
+			{
+				Console.Error.WriteLine(string.Join(Environment.NewLine, problems.Select(p => p.ErrorMessage)));
+				return 1;
+			}
+			var created = await services.GetRequiredService<IRootUsersService>().SignUpAsync(form);
+			if (!created.IsValid)
+			{
+				Console.Error.WriteLine(created.ErrorMessage);
+				return 1;
+			}
+			return admin ? await Promote(true, login, output) : await Report(login, output);
+		}
+
+		static Task<int> Report(string login, TextWriter output)
+		{
+			output.WriteLine($"{login.ToLowerInvariant()}: created");
+			return Task.FromResult(0);
+		}
+
+		// The deploy's signed-in smoke check: a root nobody signs in to by hand, owning one undiscoverable persona. Every run
+		// sets a new password and prints it, so no secret is kept anywhere and nothing waits on a person.
+		static async Task<int> Smoke(IServiceProvider services, string personaName, TextWriter output)
+		{
+			personaName = personaName.ToLowerInvariant();
+			var password = "Smoke-x" + Convert.ToHexStringLower(RandomNumberGenerator.GetBytes(24));
+			var root = await DB.Default.Find<RootUser>().Match(u => u.UserName == SmokeLogin).ExecuteFirstAsync();
+			if (root == default)
+			{
+				var created = await services.GetRequiredService<IRootUsersService>().SignUpAsync(new LoginForm { UserName = SmokeLogin, Password = password });
+				if (!created.IsValid)
+				{
+					Console.Error.WriteLine(created.ErrorMessage);
+					return 1;
+				}
+				root = await DB.Default.Find<RootUser>().Match(u => u.UserName == SmokeLogin).ExecuteFirstAsync();
+			}
+			else if (root.DeletedAt.HasValue || root.IsBanned)
+			{
+				Console.Error.WriteLine($"the root '{SmokeLogin}' is deleted or banned");
+				return 1;
+			}
+			else
+				await DB.Default.Update<RootUser>().MatchID(root.ID)
+					.Modify(u => u.HashedPassword, services.GetRequiredService<IPasswordHasher>().Hash(password))
+					.Modify(u => u.UpdatedAt, DateTime.UtcNow)
+					.ExecuteAsync();
+
+			var owned = (await DB.Default.Find<RootToAvatar>().Match(ra => ra.RootId == root.ID).ExecuteAsync()).Select(ra => ra.AvatarId).ToList();
+			var persona = await DB.Default.Find<Avatar>().Match(a => owned.Contains(a.ID) && a.UserName == personaName && !a.DeletionAt.HasValue).ExecuteFirstAsync();
+			if (persona == default)
+			{
+				var inserted = await services.GetRequiredService<IPrivateAvatarUsersService>().InsertAvatar(new InsertAvatarForm
+				{
+					RootId = root.ID,
+					UserName = personaName,
+					Name = personaName,
+					Biography = "The deploy signs in here to check that the Mastodon API works for a signed-in persona."
+				});
+				if (!inserted.IsValid)
+				{
+					Console.Error.WriteLine(inserted.ErrorMessage);
+					return 1;
+				}
+				persona = await DB.Default.Find<Avatar>().MatchID(((ViewAvatar)inserted.Data).Id).ExecuteFirstAsync();
+			}
+			await DB.Default.Update<Avatar>().MatchID(persona.ID)
+				.Modify(a => a.Settings.IsDiscoverable, false)
+				.Modify(a => a.Settings.IsIndexable, false)
+				.ExecuteAsync();
+
+			output.WriteLine($"{SmokeLogin} {password}");
 			return 0;
 		}
 	}
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+using MongoDB.Entities;
+
+using PrivaPub.Models.User;
+
+namespace PrivaPub.Infrastructure.Data.Migrations
+{
+	// Recovery codes were stored in plain text and never expired; from now on only a hash with a one-hour expiry is kept.
+	// The old codes are dropped: anyone mid-recovery asks again.
+	public class _011_recovery_codes_are_hashed : IMigration
+	{
+		public async Task UpgradeAsync() =>
+			await DB.Default.DeleteAsync<EmailRecovery>(r => r.CodeHash == null);
+	}
+}
@@ -25,8 +25,8 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Infrastructure.Geo

 	public sealed class DbIpLocator : IGeoLocator, IDisposable
 	{
-		public const string CityFile = "dbip-city-lite.mmdb";
-		public const string AsnFile = "dbip-asn-lite.mmdb";
+		public static readonly string CityFile = GeoUpdater.FileOf("city");
+		public static readonly string AsnFile = GeoUpdater.FileOf("asn");
 		static readonly TimeSpan CheckInterval = TimeSpan.FromMinutes(10);

 		readonly IOptionsMonitor<StatisticsOptions> _options;
@@ -60,18 +60,17 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Infrastructure.Geo
 			if (address == default || !IpRangeGuard.IsPublic(address))
 				return default;
 			Refresh();
-			Reader city, asn;
-			lock (_lock)
-			{
-				city = _city;
-				asn = _asn;
-			}
-			if (city == default && asn == default)
-				return default;
+			Dictionary<string, object> place, network;
 			try
 			{
-				var place = city?.Find<Dictionary<string, object>>(address);
-				var network = asn?.Find<Dictionary<string, object>>(address);
+				// under the lock, so a reload cannot dispose a reader in the middle of a lookup; lookups are rare
+				lock (_lock)
+				{
+					if (_city == default && _asn == default)
+						return default;
+					place = _city?.Find<Dictionary<string, object>>(address);
+					network = _asn?.Find<Dictionary<string, object>>(address);
+				}
 				var location = Section(place, "location");
 				return new GeoFix(
 					Text(Section(place, "country"), "iso_code"),
@@ -88,6 +87,14 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Infrastructure.Geo
 			}
 		}

+		// Looks at the files again now instead of within the next ten minutes: GeoUpdater has just replaced one.
+		public void Reload()
+		{
+			lock (_lock)
+				_checkedAt = DateTime.MinValue;
+			Refresh();
+		}
+
 		void Refresh()
 		{
 			if (DateTime.UtcNow - _checkedAt < CheckInterval)
@@ -0,0 +1,163 @@
+using MaxMind.Db;
+
+using Microsoft.Extensions.Options;
+
+using PrivaPub.Infrastructure.Statistics;
+
+using System.IO.Compression;
+using System.Net;
+
+namespace PrivaPub.Infrastructure.Geo
+{
+	// Keeps the DB-IP Lite databases current by itself, so a deploy needs no timer and no root: once a day it checks
+	// whether each database was built this month and, if not, fetches this month's (or, early in the month, last month's),
+	// checks it opens as the right kind of database and swaps it in. This and SMTP are the server's only traffic that is not
+	// federation, which is why it has its own client instead of IFederationHttp.
+	public sealed class GeoUpdater : BackgroundService
+	{
+		public const string ClientName = "geo";
+		static readonly string[] Kinds = { "city", "asn" };
+		static readonly TimeSpan FirstWait = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(30);
+		static readonly TimeSpan Interval = TimeSpan.FromHours(24);
+
+		readonly IHttpClientFactory _http;
+		readonly IOptionsMonitor<StatisticsOptions> _options;
+		readonly IGeoLocator _locator;
+		readonly ILogger<GeoUpdater> _logger;
+
+		public GeoUpdater(IHttpClientFactory http, IOptionsMonitor<StatisticsOptions> options, IGeoLocator locator, ILogger<GeoUpdater> logger)
+		{
+			_http = http;
+			_options = options;
+			_locator = locator;
+			_logger = logger;
+		}
+
+		public static string FileOf(string kind) => $"dbip-{kind}-lite.mmdb";
+
+		protected override async Task ExecuteAsync(CancellationToken stoppingToken)
+		{
+			try
+			{
+				await Task.Delay(FirstWait, stoppingToken);
+				while (!stoppingToken.IsCancellationRequested)
+				{
+					if (_options.CurrentValue.Geo.AutoUpdate)
+						await Update(DateTime.UtcNow, stoppingToken);
+					await Task.Delay(Interval + TimeSpan.FromMinutes(Random.Shared.Next(60)), stoppingToken);
+				}
+			}
+			catch (OperationCanceledException) when (stoppingToken.IsCancellationRequested)
+			{
+			}
+		}
+
+		// The number of databases replaced. A failure keeps the database already there and is tried again the next day.
+		public async Task<int> Update(DateTime now, CancellationToken token)
+		{
+			var options = _options.CurrentValue;
+			var replaced = 0;
+			try
+			{
+				Directory.CreateDirectory(options.GeoDirectory);
+			}
+			catch (Exception ex) when (ex is IOException or UnauthorizedAccessException)
+			{
+				_logger.LogWarning(ex, "Cannot create {Directory}; servers are not located", options.GeoDirectory);
+				return 0;
+			}
+			foreach (var kind in Kinds)
+			{
+				var path = Path.Combine(options.GeoDirectory, FileOf(kind));
+				var built = BuiltMonth(path);
+				foreach (var month in new[] { Month(now), Month(now).AddMonths(-1) })
+				{
+					if (built >= month)
+						break;
+					try
+					{
+						if (await Install(kind, month, path, options, token))
+						{
+							replaced++;
+							_logger.LogInformation("Installed DB-IP Lite {Kind} {Month:yyyy-MM}", kind, month);
+							break;
+						}
+					}
+					catch (Exception ex) when (ex is HttpRequestException or IOException or InvalidDatabaseException or InvalidDataException
+						or TaskCanceledException && !token.IsCancellationRequested)
+					{
+						_logger.LogWarning(ex, "Could not install DB-IP Lite {Kind} {Month:yyyy-MM}", kind, month);
+						break;
+					}
+				}
+			}
+			if (replaced > 0 && _locator is DbIpLocator locator)
+				locator.Reload();
+			return replaced;
+		}
+
+		static DateTime Month(DateTime at) => new(at.Year, at.Month, 1, 0, 0, 0, DateTimeKind.Utc);
+
+		static DateTime BuiltMonth(string path)
+		{
+			if (!File.Exists(path))
+				return DateTime.MinValue;
+			try
+			{
+				using var reader = new Reader(path, FileAccessMode.MemoryMapped);
+				return Month(reader.Metadata.BuildDate);
+			}
+			catch (Exception ex) when (ex is InvalidDatabaseException or IOException)
+			{
+				return DateTime.MinValue;
+			}
+		}
+
+		// False when that month is not published (yet); throws when it is published but cannot be used.
+		async Task<bool> Install(string kind, DateTime month, string path, StatisticsOptions options, CancellationToken token)
+		{
+			var url = $"{options.Geo.DownloadBase.TrimEnd('/')}/dbip-{kind}-lite-{month:yyyy-MM}.mmdb.gz";
+			var packed = path + ".gz.part";
+			var unpacked = path + ".new";
+			try
+			{
+				using (var response = await _http.CreateClient(ClientName).GetAsync(url, HttpCompletionOption.ResponseHeadersRead, token))
+				{
+					if (response.StatusCode == HttpStatusCode.NotFound)
+						return false;
+					response.EnsureSuccessStatusCode();
+					await using var source = await response.Content.ReadAsStreamAsync(token);
+					await using var target = File.Create(packed);
+					await CopyCapped(source, target, options.Geo.MaxDownloadBytes, token);
+				}
+				await using (var source = new GZipStream(File.OpenRead(packed), CompressionMode.Decompress))
+				await using (var target = File.Create(unpacked))
+					await CopyCapped(source, target, options.Geo.MaxDatabaseBytes, token);
+				using (var reader = new Reader(unpacked, FileAccessMode.MemoryMapped))
+					if (!reader.Metadata.DatabaseType.Contains(kind, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
+						throw new InvalidDatabaseException($"{url} is a {reader.Metadata.DatabaseType} database, not {kind}");
+				File.Move(unpacked, path, overwrite: true);
+				return true;
+			}
+			finally
+			{
+				File.Delete(packed);
+				File.Delete(unpacked);
+			}
+		}
+
+		static async Task CopyCapped(Stream source, Stream target, long limit, CancellationToken token)
+		{
+			var buffer = new byte[81920];
+			long total = 0;
+			int read;
+			while ((read = await source.ReadAsync(buffer, token)) > 0)
+			{
+				total += read;
+				if (total > limit)
+					throw new InvalidDataException($"more than {limit} bytes");
+				await target.WriteAsync(buffer.AsMemory(0, read), token);
+			}
+		}
+	}
+}
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 using Microsoft.AspNetCore.RateLimiting;
+using Microsoft.Extensions.Options;

 using PrivaPub.Federation.Objects;
 using PrivaPub.Federation.Signing;
@@ -9,13 +10,22 @@ using System.Threading.RateLimiting;

 namespace PrivaPub.Infrastructure
 {
+	public class RateLimitOptions
+	{
+		public int AccountsPerMinute { get; set; } = 10;//sign-ups, sign-ins and recoveries per client address
+		public int InboxBurst { get; set; } = 300;//deliveries a sending origin may make at once
+		public int InboxPerTenSeconds { get; set; } = 50;//and the rate it earns them back
+	}
+
 	public static class RateLimiting
 	{
 		public const string Accounts = "accounts";
 		public const string Inbox = "inbox";

-		public static IServiceCollection PrivaPubRateLimiting(this IServiceCollection service) =>
-			service.AddRateLimiter(options =>
+		static RateLimitOptions Limits(HttpContext context) => context.RequestServices.GetRequiredService<IOptions<RateLimitOptions>>().Value;
+
+		public static IServiceCollection PrivaPubRateLimiting(this IServiceCollection service, IConfiguration configuration) =>
+			service.Configure<RateLimitOptions>(configuration.GetSection("RateLimits")).AddRateLimiter(options =>
 			{
 				options.RejectionStatusCode = StatusCodes.Status429TooManyRequests;
 				options.OnRejected = (context, _) =>
@@ -39,13 +49,13 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Infrastructure
 				};
 				options.AddPolicy(Accounts, context => RateLimitPartition.GetFixedWindowLimiter(
 					context.Connection.RemoteIpAddress?.ToString() ?? "unknown",
-					_ => new FixedWindowRateLimiterOptions { PermitLimit = 10, Window = TimeSpan.FromMinutes(1), QueueLimit = 0 }));
+					_ => new FixedWindowRateLimiterOptions { PermitLimit = Limits(context).AccountsPerMinute, Window = TimeSpan.FromMinutes(1), QueueLimit = 0 }));
 				options.AddPolicy(Inbox, context => RateLimitPartition.GetTokenBucketLimiter(
 					SenderOrigin(context.Request) ?? "unsigned:" + context.Connection.RemoteIpAddress,
 					_ => new TokenBucketRateLimiterOptions
 					{
-						TokenLimit = 300,
-						TokensPerPeriod = 50,
+						TokenLimit = Limits(context).InboxBurst,
+						TokensPerPeriod = Limits(context).InboxPerTenSeconds,
 						ReplenishmentPeriod = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10),
 						QueueLimit = 0
 					}));
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+namespace PrivaPub.Infrastructure
+{
+	public enum RegistrationMode
+	{
+		Invitations,
+		Open
+	}
+
+	// Who may make a root login. NodeInfo, both instance API versions and the sign-up endpoint read this one switch, so they
+	// cannot disagree. A group invitation always creates an account, whatever the mode.
+	public class RegistrationOptions
+	{
+		public RegistrationMode Mode { get; set; } = RegistrationMode.Invitations;//owner decision (2026-10-04): invitations only
+
+		public bool IsOpen => Mode == RegistrationMode.Open;
+
+		public const string ClosedMessage = "Sign-up is by invitation only: ask someone here for a group invitation.";
+	}
+}
@@ -6,9 +6,19 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Infrastructure.Statistics
 		public string GeoDirectory { get; set; } = "/var/lib/privapub/geo";
 		public int PublicCityMinUsers { get; set; } = 10;
 		public CrawlerOptions Crawler { get; set; } = new();
+		public GeoOptions Geo { get; set; } = new();
 	}

-	//owner decision: off by default; when on, one server a minute, each at most weekly, at most MaxHosts servers
+	//owner decision (2026-10-04): the server keeps its DB-IP Lite databases current by itself
+	public class GeoOptions
+	{
+		public bool AutoUpdate { get; set; } = true;
+		public string DownloadBase { get; set; } = "https://download.db-ip.com/free";
+		public long MaxDownloadBytes { get; set; } = 300L * 1024 * 1024;
+		public long MaxDatabaseBytes { get; set; } = 1024L * 1024 * 1024;
+	}
+
+	//owner decision: off by default (on in production since 2026-10-04); when on, one server a minute, each at most weekly, at most MaxHosts servers
 	public class CrawlerOptions
 	{
 		public bool Enabled { get; set; }
@@ -41,7 +41,8 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Middleware
 		{
 			return service
 				.Configure<MongoSettings>(configuration.GetSection(nameof(MongoSettings)))
-				.Configure<AppConfiguration>(configuration.GetSection(nameof(AppConfiguration)));
+				.Configure<AppConfiguration>(configuration.GetSection(nameof(AppConfiguration)))
+				.Configure<PrivaPub.Infrastructure.RegistrationOptions>(configuration.GetSection("Registrations"));
 		}
 		public static IServiceCollection PrivaPubWorkersConfiguration(this IServiceCollection service)
 		{
@@ -98,6 +99,7 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Middleware
 				.AddSingleton<IPollService, PollService>()
 				.AddSingleton<IQuoteService, QuoteService>()
 				.AddSingleton<IJobHandler, PollRefreshJob>()
+				.AddSingleton<IJobHandler, RecoveryJob>()
 				.AddSingleton<IJobHandler, PollCloseJob>()
 				.AddSingleton<InstanceDescriber>()
 				.AddSingleton<IJobHandler>(services => services.GetRequiredService<InstanceDescriber>())
@@ -107,8 +109,16 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Middleware
 				.AddSingleton<IJobHandler, DeliveryJobHandler>()
 				.AddHostedService<JobWorker>();
 		}
-		public static IServiceCollection PrivaPubStatisticsConfiguration(this IServiceCollection service, IConfiguration configuration) =>
-			service
+		public static IServiceCollection PrivaPubStatisticsConfiguration(this IServiceCollection service, IConfiguration configuration)
+		{
+			// not federation: the DB-IP download only (GeoUpdater), plain HTTPS to a fixed host
+			service.AddHttpClient(GeoUpdater.ClientName, (provider, client) =>
+			{
+				var baseAddress = provider.GetRequiredService<IOptionsMonitor<AppConfiguration>>().CurrentValue.BackendBaseAddress?.TrimEnd('/');
+				client.Timeout = TimeSpan.FromMinutes(15);
+				client.DefaultRequestHeaders.UserAgent.ParseAdd($"PrivaPub/{BuildInfo.Ref} (+{baseAddress}/)");
+			});
+			return service
 				.Configure<StatisticsOptions>(configuration.GetSection("Statistics"))
 				.AddSingleton<InteractionSalts>()
 				.AddSingleton<InteractionLedger>()
@@ -116,10 +126,12 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Middleware
 				.AddHostedService(services => services.GetRequiredService<InteractionLedger>())
 				.AddSingleton<IJobHandler, RollupJob>()
 				.AddSingleton<IGeoLocator, DbIpLocator>()
+				.AddHostedService<GeoUpdater>()
 				.AddSingleton<Domain.Statistics.StatisticsQueries>()
 				.AddSingleton<IJobHandler, Federation.Crawler.CrawlPlanner>()
 				.AddSingleton<IJobHandler, Federation.Crawler.InstanceCrawler>()
 				.AddHostedService<StatisticsSchedule>();
+		}

 		public static IServiceCollection PrivaPubAuthServicesConfiguration(this IServiceCollection service, IConfiguration configuration)
 		{
@@ -171,6 +183,8 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Middleware
 			return service
 				.AddTransient<IDataService, DataService>()
 				.AddTransient<IRootUsersService, RootUsersService>()
+				.AddScoped<IRootSessions, RootSessions>()
+				.AddScoped<IRootRemoval, RootRemoval>()
 				.AddTransient<IPublicAvatarUsersService, PublicAvatarUsersService>()
 				.AddTransient<IPrivateAvatarUsersService, PrivateAvatarUsersService>()
 				.AddTransient<IGroupUsersService, GroupUsersService>()
@@ -29,7 +29,8 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Models.Jobs
 		FetchPreview,
 		RollupDay,
 		CrawlPlan,
-		CrawlInstance
+		CrawlInstance,
+		SendRecovery
 	}

 	public enum JobState
@@ -5,7 +5,9 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Models.User
 	public class EmailRecovery : Entity
 	{
 		public string RootUserId { get; set; }
-		public string RecoveryCode { get; set; }
+		public string RecoveryCode { get; set; }//plaintext codes before 2026-10-04; migration _011 removed them, never written now
+		public string CodeHash { get; set; }//sha-256 of the code, hex; the code itself exists only in the email
+		public DateTime ExpiresAt { get; set; }
 		public string RequestIP { get; set; }
 		public DateTime CreationDate { get; set; } = DateTime.UtcNow;
 	}
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Models.User
 		public DateTime CreatedAt { get; set; } = DateTime.UtcNow;
 		public DateTime UpdatedAt { get; set; } = DateTime.UtcNow;
 		public DateTime? DeletedAt { get; set; }
+		public DateTime? CredentialsChangedAt { get; set; }//a /clientapi token issued before this is refused (JwtEvents)
 	}

 	public class ContactItem
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ try
 			.PrivaPubFederationConfiguration(builder.Configuration)
 			.PrivaPubStatisticsConfiguration(builder.Configuration)
 			.PrivaPubCORSConfiguration()
-			.PrivaPubRateLimiting()
+			.PrivaPubRateLimiting(builder.Configuration)
 			.PrivaPubOAuth(builder.Environment)
 			.AddScoped<PrivaPub.Api.Mastodon.Mappers.MastodonMapper>()
 			.AddScoped<PrivaPub.Api.Mastodon.Mappers.AccountSearch>()
@@ -87,12 +87,6 @@ try
 		EntityMaps.Warm();
 		await DB.Default.MigrateAsync<Program>();
 		await Indexes.Create();
-
-		if (args is ["admin", ..])
-		{
-			Environment.ExitCode = await AdminCommands.Run(args[1..]);
-			return;
-		}
 	}
 	catch (Exception ex)
 	{
@@ -111,6 +105,15 @@ try
 		throw;
 	}

+	// Commands get every service but start nothing: no Kestrel, no hosted services, no media directory. The deploy runs
+	// them as its own user, which can read the configuration and reach the private mongod but owns no www-data directory.
+	if (args is ["admin", ..])
+	{
+		using var scope = app.Services.CreateScope();
+		Environment.ExitCode = await AdminCommands.Run(args[1..], scope.ServiceProvider);
+		return;
+	}
+
 	try
 	{
 		var localizationService = app.Services.GetService<RequestLocalizationOptionsService>();
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Services.ClientToServer.Private
 				if (!await _localActors.TryReserveUserName(userName, LocalActorKind.Person, newAvatar.ID, default))
 					return result.Invalidate(_localizer["The username '{0}' is already take.", userName]);
 				if (form.Settings is { IsDefault: false })
-					newAvatar.Settings = ToSettings(form.Settings);
+					Apply(newAvatar.Settings, form.Settings);

 				var actor = _localActors.FromAvatar(newAvatar);
 				newAvatar.Url = actor.Uri;
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Services.ClientToServer.Private
 				avatar.Fields = form.Fields ?? new();
 				avatar.PersonalNote = form.PersonalNote;
 				if (form.Settings != default)
-					avatar.Settings = ToSettings(form.Settings);
+					Apply(avatar.Settings ??= new(), form.Settings);
 				avatar.UpdatedAt = DateTime.UtcNow;
 				await DB.Default.SaveAsync(avatar);
 				await _outbox.PublishProfile(_localActors.FromAvatar(avatar), default);
@@ -158,18 +158,20 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Services.ClientToServer.Private
 				.Match(ru => !ru.DeletedAt.HasValue && !ru.IsBanned)
 				.ExecuteAnyAsync();

-		static AvatarSettings ToSettings(ViewAvatarSettings settings) => new()
+		// The client API carries only the theme; the rest (discoverable, locked, quote policy…) is set through the Mastodon API
+		// and must survive an edit made here.
+		static void Apply(AvatarSettings target, ViewAvatarSettings settings)
 		{
-			IsDefault = settings.IsDefault,
-			DarkThemeIndexColour = settings.DarkThemeIndexColour,
-			IconsThemeIndexColour = settings.IconsThemeIndexColour,
-			LanguageCode = settings.LanguageCode,
-			LightThemeIndexColour = settings.LightThemeIndexColour,
-			PreferSystemTheming = settings.PreferSystemTheming,
-			ThemeIsDarkGray = settings.ThemeIsDarkGray,
-			ThemeIsDarkMode = settings.ThemeIsDarkMode,
-			ThemeIsLightGray = settings.ThemeIsLightGray
-		};
+			target.IsDefault = settings.IsDefault;
+			target.DarkThemeIndexColour = settings.DarkThemeIndexColour;
+			target.IconsThemeIndexColour = settings.IconsThemeIndexColour;
+			target.LanguageCode = settings.LanguageCode;
+			target.LightThemeIndexColour = settings.LightThemeIndexColour;
+			target.PreferSystemTheming = settings.PreferSystemTheming;
+			target.ThemeIsDarkGray = settings.ThemeIsDarkGray;
+			target.ThemeIsDarkMode = settings.ThemeIsDarkMode;
+			target.ThemeIsLightGray = settings.ThemeIsLightGray;
+		}

 		ViewAvatar ToView(Avatar avatar) => new()
 		{
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Services
 		Task<WebResult> UnbanUserAsync(UsersIds usersIds);

 		Task<WebResult> RemoveUserAsync(UsersIds usersIds);
+		Task<WebResult> RemoveSelfAsync(string rootId, string password);

 		Task<WebResult> UpdateUserAsync(UserForm userEmailForm, string userId);

@@ -33,6 +33,12 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Services
 				context.Fail("The account can no longer be used.");
 				return;
 			}
+			// a password recovery ends every session made before it (RootSessions)
+			if (root.CredentialsChangedAt is { } changed && context.SecurityToken.ValidFrom < changed.AddSeconds(-1))
+			{
+				context.Fail("The account's password was changed.");
+				return;
+			}
 			if (context.Principal.Identity is not ClaimsIdentity identity)
 				return;
 			foreach (var policy in PolicyClaims)
@@ -0,0 +1,88 @@
+using MailKit.Net.Smtp;
+
+using Microsoft.Extensions.Localization;
+
+using MimeKit;
+
+using MongoDB.Entities;
+
+using PrivaPub.Infrastructure.Jobs;
+using PrivaPub.Models.Jobs;
+using PrivaPub.Models.User;
+using PrivaPub.Resources;
+
+using System.Security.Cryptography;
+using System.Text;
+using System.Text.Json;
+
+namespace PrivaPub.Services
+{
+	public sealed record RecoveryPayload(string RootUserId, string Host);
+
+	// Sends a password recovery link. Every request queues one of these, for an account that exists or not, so the answer
+	// to the request and its timing say nothing; SMTP's slowness and failures happen here, where nobody waits on them.
+	// The code exists only in the email: the database keeps its hash, for an hour.
+	public class RecoveryJob : IJobHandler
+	{
+		public const string Host = "recovery";
+		public static readonly TimeSpan CodeLifetime = TimeSpan.FromHours(1);
+
+		readonly AppConfigurationService _app;
+		readonly IStringLocalizer<GenericRes> _localizer;
+		readonly ILogger<RecoveryJob> _logger;
+
+		public RecoveryJob(AppConfigurationService app, IStringLocalizer<GenericRes> localizer, ILogger<RecoveryJob> logger)
+		{
+			_app = app;
+			_localizer = localizer;
+			_logger = logger;
+		}
+
+		public JobKind Kind => JobKind.SendRecovery;
+		public int Concurrency => 1;
+		public int MaxAttempts => 3;
+		public int PerHostLimit => 1;
+
+		public static string Hash(string code) => Convert.ToHexStringLower(SHA256.HashData(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(code ?? string.Empty)));
+
+		public async Task<JobOutcome> Handle(Job job, CancellationToken token)
+		{
+			var payload = JsonSerializer.Deserialize<RecoveryPayload>(job.Payload);
+			if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(payload?.RootUserId))
+				return JobOutcome.Done;//asked for an account that does not exist: there is nobody to write to
+			var user = await DB.Default.Find<RootUser>().MatchID(payload.RootUserId).ExecuteFirstAsync(token);
+			if (user is not { DeletedAt: null, IsBanned: false } || string.IsNullOrEmpty(user.Email))
+				return JobOutcome.Done;
+
+			var code = Convert.ToHexStringLower(RandomNumberGenerator.GetBytes(32));
+			await DB.Default.DeleteAsync<EmailRecovery>(r => r.RootUserId == user.ID);
+			await DB.Default.SaveAsync(new EmailRecovery { RootUserId = user.ID, CodeHash = Hash(code), ExpiresAt = DateTime.UtcNow + CodeLifetime }, token);
+
+			var email = _app.AppConfiguration.EmailConfiguration;
+			var message = new MimeMessage();
+			message.From.Add(new MailboxAddress("PrivaPub", email.SmtpUsername));
+			message.To.Add(MailboxAddress.Parse(user.Email));
+			message.Subject = _localizer["PrivaPub - Password recovery link"];
+			message.Body = new TextPart("plain")
+			{
+				Text = string.Format(_localizer[
+					"Hello,\n\nSomeone asked to reset the password of the PrivaPub login {0}. If it was you, open this link within an hour:\n{1}\n\nIf it was not you, ignore this email: nothing changes."],
+					user.UserName, $"{payload.Host}/password-recovery?rc={code}")
+			};
+			try
+			{
+				using var smtp = new SmtpClient();
+				await smtp.ConnectAsync(email.SmtpServer, email.SmtpPort, email.UseSSL, token);
+				await smtp.AuthenticateAsync(email.SmtpUsername, email.SmtpPassword, token);
+				await smtp.SendAsync(message, token);
+				await smtp.DisconnectAsync(quit: true, token);
+				return JobOutcome.Done;
+			}
+			catch (Exception ex) when (ex is not OperationCanceledException || !token.IsCancellationRequested)
+			{
+				_logger.LogWarning(ex, "The recovery email could not be sent");
+				return JobOutcome.Retry("smtp");
+			}
+		}
+	}
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,119 @@
+using MongoDB.Entities;
+
+using PrivaPub.Federation.Actors;
+using PrivaPub.Federation.Outbox;
+using PrivaPub.Federation.Rendering;
+using PrivaPub.Models.Federation;
+using PrivaPub.Models.Social;
+using PrivaPub.Models.User;
+using PrivaPub.StaticServices;
+
+using System.Text.Json.Nodes;
+
+using GroupEntity = PrivaPub.Models.Group.Group;
+using PostEntity = PrivaPub.Models.Post.Post;
+
+namespace PrivaPub.Services
+{
+	public interface IRootRemoval
+	{
+		Task<bool> Remove(string rootId, CancellationToken token);
+	}
+
+	// Deleting a root deletes everything public it had (owner decision 2026-10-04): each persona, and each group a persona
+	// owns, is announced deleted with a Delete of the actor to everyone who follows it, every member and everyone it
+	// follows; their posts are emptied; their names stay reserved, and their documents answer 410 from then on. The root's
+	// sessions end first, so nothing acts as it while it goes.
+	public class RootRemoval : IRootRemoval
+	{
+		readonly DbEntities _dbEntities;
+		readonly ILocalActorService _localActors;
+		readonly IDeliveryService _delivery;
+		readonly IRootSessions _sessions;
+
+		public RootRemoval(DbEntities dbEntities, ILocalActorService localActors, IDeliveryService delivery, IRootSessions sessions)
+		{
+			_dbEntities = dbEntities;
+			_localActors = localActors;
+			_delivery = delivery;
+			_sessions = sessions;
+		}
+
+		public async Task<bool> Remove(string rootId, CancellationToken token)
+		{
+			var root = await _dbEntities.RootUsers.MatchID(rootId).Match(u => u.DeletedAt == null).ExecuteFirstAsync(token);
+			if (root == default)
+				return false;
+			await _sessions.Revoke(root.ID, token);
+			var now = DateTime.UtcNow;
+
+			var avatarIds = (await _dbEntities.RootToAvatars.Match(ra => ra.RootId == root.ID).ExecuteAsync(token)).Select(ra => ra.AvatarId).ToList();
+			var avatars = await _dbEntities.Avatars.Match(a => avatarIds.Contains(a.ID) && !a.DeletionAt.HasValue).ExecuteAsync(token);
+			foreach (var avatar in avatars)
+			{
+				foreach (var group in await _dbEntities.Groups.Match(g => g.OwnerAvatarId == avatar.ID && !g.DeletionAt.HasValue).ExecuteAsync(token))
+				{
+					await Announce(_localActors.FromGroup(group), group.Members.Where(m => m.IsForeign).Select(m => m.AvatarId), token);
+					await DB.Default.Update<GroupEntity>().MatchID(group.ID).Modify(g => g.DeletionAt, now).ExecuteAsync(token);
+				}
+				var persona = _localActors.FromAvatar(avatar);
+				var followed = (await _dbEntities.Followings.Match(f => f.AvatarId == avatar.ID && !f.TargetIsLocal).ExecuteAsync(token))
+					.Select(f => f.TargetActorURI);
+				await Announce(persona, followed, token);
+				await DB.Default.Update<Avatar>().MatchID(avatar.ID).Modify(a => a.DeletionAt, now).ExecuteAsync(token);
+				await Empty(avatar.ID, now, token);
+			}
+
+			await DB.Default.Update<RootUser>().MatchID(root.ID)
+				.Modify(u => u.UserName, $"deleted-{root.ID}")//unique, so a second deletion never collides with the first
+				.Modify(u => u.Email, null)
+				.Modify(u => u.HashedPassword, null)
+				.Modify(u => u.Policies, new List<string>())
+				.Modify(u => u.IsBanned, false)
+				.Modify(u => u.IsEmailValidated, false)
+				.Modify(u => u.DeletedAt, now)
+				.ExecuteAsync(token);
+			await DB.Default.DeleteAsync<EmailRecovery>(r => r.RootUserId == root.ID);
+			return true;
+		}
+
+		// Delete{Actor}: to its followers' (shared) inboxes, and to the inboxes of the other accounts named
+		async Task Announce(LocalActor actor, IEnumerable<string> others, CancellationToken token)
+		{
+			var inboxes = (await _delivery.FollowerInboxes(actor, token)).ToList();
+			var named = others.Where(uri => !string.IsNullOrEmpty(uri)).Distinct().ToList();
+			if (named.Count > 0)
+				inboxes.AddRange((await _dbEntities.ForeignAvatars.Match(a => named.Contains(a.ActorURI)).ExecuteAsync(token))
+					.Select(a => string.IsNullOrEmpty(a.SharedInboxURL) ? a.InboxURL : a.SharedInboxURL));
+			await _delivery.Enqueue(actor, inboxes.Where(i => !string.IsNullOrEmpty(i)).Distinct(), new JsonObject
+			{
+				["@context"] = ActivityPubRenderer.Context(),
+				["id"] = actor.ActivityUri("delete-actor"),
+				["type"] = "Delete",
+				["actor"] = actor.Uri,
+				["object"] = actor.Uri,
+				["to"] = new JsonArray(ActivityPubRenderer.Public),
+				["cc"] = new JsonArray(actor.Followers)
+			}, token);
+		}
+
+		// a persona's posts keep their ids and lose their content, like a single deleted post; a group writes none of its own
+		static async Task Empty(string avatarId, DateTime now, CancellationToken token)
+		{
+			var postIds = (await DB.Default.Find<PostEntity>().Match(p => p.GroupUserId == avatarId && !p.IsFederatedCopy && !p.DeletedAt.HasValue)
+				.Project(p => p.Include(x => x.ID)).ExecuteAsync(token)).Select(p => p.ID).ToList();
+			if (postIds.Count == 0)
+				return;
+			await DB.Default.Update<PostEntity>().Match(p => postIds.Contains(p.ID))
+				.Modify(p => p.DeletedAt, now)
+				.Modify(p => p.Text, null)
+				.Modify(p => p.ContentHtml, null)
+				.Modify(p => p.Title, null)
+				.Modify(p => p.SpoilerText, null)
+				.Modify(p => p.Media, new List<Models.Post.PostMedia>())
+				.Modify(p => p.Revisions, new List<Models.Post.PostRevision>())
+				.ExecuteAsync(token);
+			await DB.Default.DeleteAsync<TimelineEntry>(e => postIds.Contains(e.PostId) || postIds.Contains(e.ReblogOfPostId));
+		}
+	}
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+using MongoDB.Entities;
+
+using OpenIddict.Abstractions;
+
+using PrivaPub.Models.User;
+using PrivaPub.StaticServices;
+
+namespace PrivaPub.Services
+{
+	public interface IRootSessions
+	{
+		Task Revoke(string rootId, CancellationToken token);
+	}
+
+	// Ends everything a root is signed in with: its /clientapi tokens, through CredentialsChangedAt (checked by JwtEvents),
+	// and the Mastodon API tokens and authorizations of each of its personas. Used when its password is recovered and when
+	// it is deleted.
+	public class RootSessions : IRootSessions
+	{
+		readonly DbEntities _dbEntities;
+		readonly IOpenIddictTokenManager _tokens;
+		readonly IOpenIddictAuthorizationManager _authorizations;
+
+		public RootSessions(DbEntities dbEntities, IOpenIddictTokenManager tokens, IOpenIddictAuthorizationManager authorizations)
+		{
+			_dbEntities = dbEntities;
+			_tokens = tokens;
+			_authorizations = authorizations;
+		}
+
+		public async Task Revoke(string rootId, CancellationToken token)
+		{
+			await DB.Default.Update<RootUser>().MatchID(rootId).Modify(u => u.CredentialsChangedAt, DateTime.UtcNow).ExecuteAsync(token);
+			foreach (var link in await _dbEntities.RootToAvatars.Match(ra => ra.RootId == rootId).ExecuteAsync(token))
+			{
+				await _tokens.RevokeBySubjectAsync(link.AvatarId, token);
+				await _authorizations.RevokeBySubjectAsync(link.AvatarId, token);
+			}
+		}
+	}
+}
@@ -14,9 +14,12 @@ using PrivaPub.ClientModels.User;
 using PrivaPub.Models;
 using PrivaPub.Models.User;
 using PrivaPub.Resources;
+using PrivaPub.Infrastructure.Jobs;
+using PrivaPub.Models.Jobs;
 using PrivaPub.StaticServices;

 using System.Globalization;
+using System.Text.Json;

 #pragma warning disable 8603
 #pragma warning disable 8625
@@ -31,8 +34,14 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Services
 		readonly ILogger<RootUsersService> Logger;
 		readonly AppConfigurationService AppConfigurationService;
 		readonly AuthTokenManager AuthTokenManager;
+		readonly IJobQueue Jobs;
+		readonly IRootSessions Sessions;
+		readonly IRootRemoval Removal;

 		public RootUsersService(
+			IJobQueue jobs,
+			IRootSessions sessions,
+			IRootRemoval removal,
 			IStringLocalizer<GenericRes> localizer,
 			ILogger<RootUsersService> logger,
 			IPasswordHasher passwordHasher,
@@ -40,6 +49,9 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Services
 			AppConfigurationService appConfigurationService,
 			AuthTokenManager authTokenManager)
 		{
+			Jobs = jobs;
+			Sessions = sessions;
+			Removal = removal;
 			DbEntities = dbEntities;
 			AuthTokenManager = authTokenManager;
 			PasswordHasher = passwordHasher;
@@ -48,6 +60,12 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Services
 			AppConfigurationService = appConfigurationService;
 		}

+		public const string NoMatch = "That username and password do not match.";
+		static string _decoy;
+
+		// a hash nobody's password matches, so an unknown login costs the same hashing as a wrong password
+		string Decoy => _decoy ??= PasswordHasher.Hash(Convert.ToHexString(System.Security.Cryptography.RandomNumberGenerator.GetBytes(16)));
+
 		public async Task<WebResult> SignUpAsync(LoginForm signUpForm, string invitationCode = default,
 			bool isPasswordRequired = false)
 		{
@@ -114,20 +132,16 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Services
 			var result = new WebResult();
 			try
 			{
+				// One answer, after the same work, whether the login is unknown, deleted or the password wrong: sign-in must not
+				// tell anyone which logins exist. Only someone who knows the password learns the login is banned.
 				loginForm.UserName = loginForm.UserName.ToLower();
-				if (!await DbEntities.RootUsers.Match(u => u.UserName == loginForm.UserName && u.DeletedAt == null)
-							.ExecuteAnyAsync())
-					return result.Invalidate(Localizer["Username '{0}' not found.", loginForm.UserName]);
-
-				var user = await DbEntities.RootUsers.Match(u => u.UserName == loginForm.UserName).ExecuteFirstAsync();
+				var user = await DbEntities.RootUsers.Match(u => u.UserName == loginForm.UserName && u.DeletedAt == null).ExecuteFirstAsync();
+				var (verified, needsUpgrade) = PasswordHasher.Check(user?.HashedPassword ?? Decoy, loginForm.Password);
+				if (user?.HashedPassword == default || !verified)
+					return result.Invalidate(Localizer[NoMatch]);
 				if (user.IsBanned)
 					return result.Invalidate(Localizer["User '{0}' banned.", user.UserName]);

-				var (verified, needsUpgrade) = PasswordHasher.Check(user.HashedPassword, loginForm.Password);
-
-				if (!verified)
-					return result.Invalidate(Localizer["Wrong password."]);
-
 				if (needsUpgrade)
 					result.ErrorMessage = Localizer["Needs upgrade!"];

@@ -261,24 +275,12 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Services
 			var result = new WebResult();
 			try
 			{
-				var users = await DbEntities.RootUsers.Match(u => usersIds.UserIdList.Contains(u.ID) && u.DeletedAt == default).ExecuteAsync();
-				if (users == null || users.Count == 0)
+				var removed = 0;
+				foreach (var id in usersIds.UserIdList.Distinct())
+					if (await Removal.Remove(id, CancellationToken.None))
+						removed++;
+				if (removed == 0)
 					return result.Invalidate(Localizer["User already deleted."]);
-
-				foreach (var user in users)
-				{
-					user.Email = Localizer["Deleted user"];
-					user.HashedPassword = null;
-					user.Policies.Clear();
-					user.IsBanned = false;
-					user.IsEmailValidated = false;
-					//user.TempSecret = null;
-					user.UserName = Localizer["Deleted user"];
-					user.DeletedAt = DateTime.UtcNow;
-
-					await DB.Default.SaveAsync(user);
-				}
-
 				return result;
 			}
 			catch (Exception ex)
@@ -288,6 +290,26 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Services
 			}
 		}

+		// A root deletes itself only with its password, so a stolen session cannot.
+		public async Task<WebResult> RemoveSelfAsync(string rootId, string password)
+		{
+			var result = new WebResult();
+			try
+			{
+				var user = await DbEntities.RootUsers.MatchID(rootId).Match(u => u.DeletedAt == null).ExecuteFirstAsync();
+				var (verified, _) = PasswordHasher.Check(user?.HashedPassword ?? Decoy, password ?? string.Empty);
+				if (user?.HashedPassword == default || !verified)
+					return result.Invalidate(Localizer[NoMatch], StatusCodes.Status403Forbidden);
+				await Removal.Remove(user.ID, CancellationToken.None);
+				return result;
+			}
+			catch (Exception ex)
+			{
+				Logger.LogError(ex, $"{nameof(RootUsersService)}.{nameof(RemoveSelfAsync)}()");
+				return result.Invalidate(Localizer["Something went wrong."], exception: ex);
+			}
+		}
+
 		public async Task<WebResult> BanUserAsync(UsersIds usersIds)
 		{
 			var result = new WebResult();
@@ -354,141 +376,22 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Services
 			}
 		}

+		public const string RecoverySent = "If that account has an email address, a recovery link is on its way. It works for one hour.";
+
+		// The same answer, after the same work, whether the account exists, has an email or can be written to: recovery must
+		// not tell anyone which logins or addresses exist. RecoveryJob does the rest, out of the request.
 		public async Task<WebResult> SetupAndSendRecoveryEmail(PasswordRecoveryForm passwordRecoveryForm, string host)
 		{
 			var result = new WebResult();
 			try
 			{
-				var usernameExists = false;
-				if (passwordRecoveryForm.IsEmailDisabled)
-				{
-					if (!await DbEntities.RootUsers.Match(u => u.UserName == passwordRecoveryForm.UserName && u.DeletedAt == null)
-								.ExecuteAnyAsync())
-						return result.Invalidate(Localizer["Username '{0}' not found.", passwordRecoveryForm.UserName],
-							StatusCodes.Status404NotFound);
-					usernameExists = true;
-				}
-				else
-				{
-					if (!await DbEntities.RootUsers.Match(u => u.Email == passwordRecoveryForm.Email && u.DeletedAt == null)
-								.ExecuteAnyAsync())
-						return result.Invalidate(Localizer["Username '{0}' not found.", passwordRecoveryForm.UserName],
-							StatusCodes.Status404NotFound);
-				}
-
-				var user = default(RootUser);
-				if (usernameExists)
-					user = await DbEntities.RootUsers.Match(u => u.UserName == passwordRecoveryForm.UserName).ExecuteFirstAsync();
-				else
-					user = await DbEntities.RootUsers.Match(u => u.Email == passwordRecoveryForm.Email).ExecuteFirstAsync();
-
-				if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(user.Email))
-					return result.Invalidate(Localizer["This User doesn't have an email, no way to recover."],
-						StatusCodes.Status423Locked);
-
-				var emailRecovery = await DbEntities.EmailRecoveries
-					.Match(er => er.RootUserId == user.ID).ExecuteFirstAsync();
-
-				if (emailRecovery is null)
-				{
-					emailRecovery = new()
-					{
-						RootUserId = user.ID
-					};
-					await DB.Default.SaveAsync(emailRecovery);
-				}
-
-				using var recoveryCodeGenerator = new Password(true, true, true, false, 127);
-				emailRecovery.RecoveryCode = recoveryCodeGenerator.Next();
-				await DB.Default.SaveAsync(emailRecovery);
-
-				using (var smtpClient = new SmtpClient())
-				{
-					try
-					{
-						await smtpClient.ConnectAsync(AppConfigurationService.AppConfiguration.EmailConfiguration.SmtpServer, AppConfigurationService.AppConfiguration.EmailConfiguration.SmtpPort,
-							AppConfigurationService.AppConfiguration.EmailConfiguration.UseSSL);
-						if (!smtpClient.IsConnected)
-						{
-							Logger.LogError($"Failed to connect to the SMTP server({AppConfigurationService.AppConfiguration.EmailConfiguration.SmtpServer}).");
-							return result.Invalidate(Localizer["Failed to send email."], StatusCodes.Status503ServiceUnavailable);
-						}
-					}
-					catch (Exception ex)
-					{
-						Logger.LogError(ex, $"Error at connection to the SMTP server({AppConfigurationService.AppConfiguration.EmailConfiguration.SmtpServer}).");
-						return result.Invalidate(Localizer["Failed to send email."], StatusCodes.Status503ServiceUnavailable, exception: ex);
-					}
-
-					try
-					{
-						await smtpClient.AuthenticateAsync(AppConfigurationService.AppConfiguration.EmailConfiguration.SmtpUsername, AppConfigurationService.AppConfiguration.EmailConfiguration.SmtpPassword);
-						if (!smtpClient.IsAuthenticated)
-						{
-							Logger.LogError($"Failed SMTP authentication of {AppConfigurationService.AppConfiguration.EmailConfiguration.SmtpUsername}.");
-							return result.Invalidate(Localizer["Failed to send email."],
-								StatusCodes.Status503ServiceUnavailable);
-						}
-					}
-					catch (Exception ex)
-					{
-						Logger.LogError(ex, $"Failed SMTP authentication of {AppConfigurationService.AppConfiguration.EmailConfiguration.SmtpUsername}.");
-						return result.Invalidate(Localizer["Failed to send email."],
-							StatusCodes.Status503ServiceUnavailable, exception: ex);
-					}
-
-					try
-					{
-						var toParsed = await smtpClient.VerifyAsync(user.Email);
-						if (toParsed == null)
-							return result.Invalidate(Localizer["Invalid email."], StatusCodes.Status400BadRequest);
-					}
-					catch (OperationCanceledException ex)
-					{
-						Logger.LogWarning(
-							"SMTP operation canceled at email verification: {Error}", ex.Message);
-					}
-					catch (SmtpCommandException ex)
-					{
-						Logger.LogWarning(
-							"SMTP command exception at email verification: {Error}", ex.Message);
-					}
-					catch (SmtpProtocolException ex)
-					{
-						Logger.LogWarning(
-							"SMTP protocol exception at email verification: {Error}", ex.Message);
-					}
-					catch (Exception ex)
-					{
-						Logger.LogWarning("Exception at email verification: {Error}", ex.Message);
-					}
-
-					var message = new MimeMessage();
-					message.From.Add(new MailboxAddress("PrivaPub", AppConfigurationService.AppConfiguration.EmailConfiguration.SmtpUsername));
-					message.To.Add(MailboxAddress.Parse(user.Email));
-					message.Subject = Localizer["PrivaPub - Password recovery link"];
-					message.Body = new TextPart("plain")
-					{
-						Text = string.Format(Localizer[@"Hey {0},
-
-Eugene from collAnon, following is the password recovery link:
-{1}
-
-- Eugene"], user.UserName, $"{host}/password-recovery?rc={emailRecovery.RecoveryCode}")
-					};
-					try
-					{
-						await smtpClient.SendAsync(message);
-					}
-					catch (Exception ex)
-					{
-						Logger.LogError(ex, $"Error at email sending to {user.Email} from {AppConfigurationService.AppConfiguration.EmailConfiguration.SmtpUsername}.");
-						return result.Invalidate(Localizer["Failed to send email."], StatusCodes.Status503ServiceUnavailable, exception: ex);
-					}
-
-					await smtpClient.DisconnectAsync(quit: true);
-				}
-
+				var userName = passwordRecoveryForm.UserName?.ToLowerInvariant();
+				var user = passwordRecoveryForm.IsEmailDisabled
+					? await DbEntities.RootUsers.Match(u => u.UserName == userName && u.DeletedAt == null).ExecuteFirstAsync()
+					: await DbEntities.RootUsers.Match(u => u.Email == passwordRecoveryForm.Email && u.DeletedAt == null).ExecuteFirstAsync();
+				await Jobs.Enqueue(JobKind.SendRecovery, JsonSerializer.Serialize(new RecoveryPayload(user?.ID, host)), RecoveryJob.Host,
+					dedupeKey: default, CancellationToken.None);
+				result.Data = Localizer[RecoverySent].Value;
 				return result;
 			}
 			catch (Exception ex)
@@ -498,16 +401,19 @@ Eugene from collAnon, following is the password recovery link:
 			}
 		}

+		Task<EmailRecovery> LiveRecovery(string recoveryCode)
+		{
+			var hash = RecoveryJob.Hash(recoveryCode);
+			var now = DateTime.UtcNow;
+			return DbEntities.EmailRecoveries.Match(er => er.CodeHash == hash && er.ExpiresAt > now).ExecuteFirstAsync();
+		}
+
 		public async Task<WebResult> IsValidRecoveryCode(string recoveryCode)
 		{
 			var result = new WebResult();
 			try
 			{
-				var isValidRecoveryCode = await DbEntities.EmailRecoveries
-					.Match(er => er.RecoveryCode == recoveryCode).ExecuteAnyAsync();
-
-				result.Data = isValidRecoveryCode;
-
+				result.Data = await LiveRecovery(recoveryCode) != default;
 				return result;
 			}
 			catch (Exception ex)
@@ -516,33 +422,24 @@ Eugene from collAnon, following is the password recovery link:
 			}
 		}

+		// A recovered password ends every session the root had: whoever had them may be why it was recovered.
 		public async Task<WebResult> ChangePassword(NewPasswordForm newPasswordForm)
 		{
 			var result = new WebResult();
 			try
 			{
-				var isValidRecoveryCode = await DbEntities.EmailRecoveries
-					.Match(er => er.RecoveryCode == newPasswordForm.RecoveryCode).ExecuteAnyAsync();
-				if (!isValidRecoveryCode)
+				var recovery = await LiveRecovery(newPasswordForm.RecoveryCode);
+				var user = recovery == default ? default
+					: await DbEntities.RootUsers.MatchID(recovery.RootUserId).Match(u => u.DeletedAt == null && !u.IsBanned).ExecuteFirstAsync();
+				if (user == default)
 					return result.Invalidate(Localizer["Invalid recovery code."], StatusCodes.Status404NotFound);

-				var emailRecovery = await DbEntities.EmailRecoveries
-					.Match(er => er.RecoveryCode == newPasswordForm.RecoveryCode)
-					.Project(er => er.Include(nameof(EmailRecovery.RootUserId)))
-					.ExecuteFirstAsync();
-
-				if (emailRecovery is null || emailRecovery.RootUserId is null)
-					return result.Invalidate(Localizer["User not found."]);
-
-				var newHashedPassword = PasswordHasher.Hash(newPasswordForm.NewPassword);
-
-				_ = await DB.Default.Update<RootUser>()
-					.Match(u => u.ID == emailRecovery.RootUserId && u.DeletedAt == null)
-					.Modify(u => u.HashedPassword, newHashedPassword)
+				await DB.Default.Update<RootUser>().MatchID(user.ID)
+					.Modify(u => u.HashedPassword, PasswordHasher.Hash(newPasswordForm.NewPassword))
+					.Modify(u => u.UpdatedAt, DateTime.UtcNow)
 					.ExecuteAsync();
-
-				_ = await DB.Default.DeleteAsync<EmailRecovery>(er => er.RecoveryCode == newPasswordForm.RecoveryCode);
-
+				await DB.Default.DeleteAsync<EmailRecovery>(er => er.RootUserId == user.ID);
+				await Sessions.Revoke(user.ID, CancellationToken.None);
 				return result;
 			}
 			catch (Exception ex)
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ namespace PrivaPub.StaticServices

 			var token = new JwtSecurityToken(issuer: Configuration["AppConfiguration:Jwt:Issuer"], audience: Configuration["AppConfiguration:Jwt:Audience"],
 					claims: claims,
+					notBefore: DateTime.UtcNow,//its issue time, which JwtEvents compares with RootUser.CredentialsChangedAt
 					expires: expiration,
 					signingCredentials: new(securityKey, SecurityAlgorithms.HmacSha512)
 			);
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ namespace PrivaPub.StaticServices
 			using (var algorithm = new Rfc2898DeriveBytes(password, salt, iterations, HashAlgorithmName.SHA512))
 			{
 				var keyToCheck = algorithm.GetBytes(KeySize);
-				var verified = keyToCheck.SequenceEqual(key);
+				var verified = CryptographicOperations.FixedTimeEquals(keyToCheck, key);
 				return (verified, needsUpgrade);
 			}
 		}
@@ -133,14 +133,18 @@ namespace PrivaPub.Web.Pages
 		readonly Microsoft.Extensions.Options.IOptionsMonitor<Infrastructure.Statistics.StatisticsOptions> _options;
 		readonly Microsoft.Extensions.Options.IOptionsMonitor<Models.AppConfiguration> _app;

+		readonly Infrastructure.Geo.IGeoLocator _geo;
+
 		public StargazingModel(Microsoft.Extensions.Options.IOptionsMonitor<Infrastructure.Statistics.StatisticsOptions> options,
-			Microsoft.Extensions.Options.IOptionsMonitor<Models.AppConfiguration> app)
+			Microsoft.Extensions.Options.IOptionsMonitor<Models.AppConfiguration> app, Infrastructure.Geo.IGeoLocator geo)
 		{
 			_options = options;
 			_app = app;
+			_geo = geo;
 		}

 		public bool CrawlerEnabled => _options.CurrentValue.Crawler.Enabled;
+		public string GeoSource => _geo.Source;
 		public string UserAgent => Federation.Crawler.Stargazer.UserAgent(_app.CurrentValue.BackendBaseAddress);

 		public void OnGet() => Harden();
@@ -15,6 +15,15 @@
 	<p>A server we exchange activities with is described once a week, from its public NodeInfo and, when it has one, its
 	Mastodon instance API. Its location comes from the address we reached, looked up in an offline database: only the
 	country is shown publicly for small servers, and only the CDN for servers behind one.</p>
+	@if (Model.GeoSource is { } geo)
+	{
+		<p>Locations come from <a href="https://db-ip.com" rel="nofollow noopener">@geo</a>, licensed under
+		<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" rel="nofollow noopener">CC BY 4.0</a>.</p>
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		<p>No location database is loaded yet, so servers are not located.</p>
+	}
 </article>
 <article>
 	<h2>The crawler</h2>
@@ -2,6 +2,29 @@
 	"Media": {
 		"Root": "/var/lib/privapub/media"
 	},
+	"Registrations": {
+		"Mode": "Invitations"
+	},
+	"Federation": {
+		"SecureMode": true
+	},
+	"Statistics": {
+		"Crawler": {
+			"Enabled": true,
+			"Seeds": [
+				"mastodon.social",
+				"fosstodon.org",
+				"mas.to",
+				"lemmy.world",
+				"lemmy.ml",
+				"misskey.io",
+				"pixelfed.social",
+				"framatube.org",
+				"piefed.social",
+				"bookwyrm.social"
+			]
+		}
+	},
 	"MongoSettings": {
 		"Database": "PrivaPub",
 		"LogsDatabase": "logs",
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-# Fetches the month's DB-IP Lite city and ASN databases (CC BY 4.0, https://db-ip.com) into the directory PrivaPub reads
-# them from (Statistics:GeoDirectory). The app swaps to new files on its own; a failed download leaves the old ones.
-set -euo pipefail
-dir="${GEO_DIR:-/var/lib/privapub/geo}"
-tmp=$(mktemp -d); trap 'rm -rf "$tmp"' EXIT
-this=$(date -u +%Y-%m)
-last=$(date -u -d "$(date -u +%Y-%m-15) -1 month" +%Y-%m)
-for kind in city asn; do
-	got=""
-	for month in "$this" "$last"; do
-		if curl -fsS --max-time 900 -o "$tmp/$kind.gz" "https://download.db-ip.com/free/dbip-$kind-lite-$month.mmdb.gz"; then
-			got=$month; break
-		fi
-	done
-	[ -n "$got" ] || { echo "no $kind database for $this or $last" >&2; exit 1; }
-	gunzip -t "$tmp/$kind.gz"
-	gunzip -c "$tmp/$kind.gz" > "$tmp/dbip-$kind-lite.mmdb"
-	[ "$(stat -c %s "$tmp/dbip-$kind-lite.mmdb")" -gt 1000000 ] || { echo "the $kind database is too small" >&2; exit 1; }
-	install -m 640 "$tmp/dbip-$kind-lite.mmdb" "$dir/.dbip-$kind-lite.mmdb.new"
-	mv -f "$dir/.dbip-$kind-lite.mmdb.new" "$dir/dbip-$kind-lite.mmdb"
-	echo "$kind: DB-IP Lite $got"
-done
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ ACME=/root/.acme.sh/acme.sh
 echo "== directories"
 install -d -o "$RUNNER" -g www-data -m 755 /var/www/$HOST
 install -d -o "$RUNNER" -g "$RUNNER" -m 750 /var/backups/$HOST
-install -d -o www-data -g www-data -m 750 /var/lib/privapub /var/lib/privapub/mongo /var/lib/privapub/geo
+install -d -o www-data -g www-data -m 750 /var/lib/privapub /var/lib/privapub/mongo

 echo "== sudoers"
 SUDOERS=/etc/sudoers.d/$RUNNER
@@ -23,15 +23,10 @@ visudo -cf "$SUDOERS"
 echo "== units"
 install -m 644 "$SRC/systemd/privapub-mongod.service" /etc/systemd/system/privapub-mongod.service
 install -m 644 "$SRC/systemd/$UNIT.service" /etc/systemd/system/$UNIT.service
-install -m 755 "$SRC/max/geo-update.sh" /usr/local/bin/privapub-geo-update
-install -m 644 "$SRC/systemd/privapub-geo.service" /etc/systemd/system/privapub-geo.service
-install -m 644 "$SRC/systemd/privapub-geo.timer" /etc/systemd/system/privapub-geo.timer
 systemctl daemon-reload
 systemctl enable --now privapub-mongod >/dev/null
 systemctl enable $UNIT >/dev/null
-systemctl enable --now privapub-geo.timer >/dev/null
 systemctl is-active privapub-mongod
-[ -f /var/lib/privapub/geo/dbip-city-lite.mmdb ] || systemctl start privapub-geo.service || echo "geolocation databases not fetched yet; the timer retries"

 echo "== nginx snippet and bootstrap vhost"
 install -m 644 "$SRC/nginx/privapub-headers.conf" /etc/nginx/snippets/privapub-headers.conf
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-[Unit]
-Description=PrivaPub: fetch the DB-IP Lite geolocation databases
-After=network-online.target
-Wants=network-online.target
-
-[Service]
-Type=oneshot
-User=www-data
-Group=www-data
-ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/privapub-geo-update
-NoNewPrivileges=true
-ProtectSystem=strict
-ProtectHome=true
-PrivateTmp=true
-ReadWritePaths=/var/lib/privapub/geo
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-[Unit]
-Description=PrivaPub: refresh the geolocation databases monthly
-
-[Timer]
-OnCalendar=*-*-03 04:00:00
-RandomizedDelaySec=6h
-Persistent=true
-
-[Install]
-WantedBy=timers.target
@@ -169,15 +169,19 @@ Priorities, used throughout:
 Findings:
 - **Mastodon 4.7 names its actors by number**: `https://mastodon.test/ap/users/<id>`, inbox `…/ap/users/<id>/inbox`. Nothing here may assume
  `/users/<name>`.
- **It drops circle posts** (expected failure in the scenario).
+- **It dropped circle posts** until each member's copy named that member (owner decision 2026-10-04, v1.19.0).
  - A post addressed only to `[circle, circle/flock]` parses as `direct` there, and Mastodon keeps a `direct` post
    only if it names a local account or arrived in a known account's inbox (`Create#addresses_local_accounts?`).
  - But `ActivityPub::InboxesController#account_required?` looks only at `params[:account_username]`. A delivery to
    the numeric `/ap/users/:account_id/inbox` it now advertises therefore reaches the worker with no recipient and
    is rejected.
  - DMs are unaffected because they name the recipient.
-  - Fixing it on our side means naming the member (or that server's members) in each copy's `cc`, which changes what a
-    circle reveals: **owner decision pending**. Reporting it upstream is the other half.
+  - Each member's copy now names that member in `cc` and mentions them silently, so Mastodon keeps it, and its signed
+    refetch (`ActivityPub::FetchRemoteStatusService`, by its instance actor) gets the post back naming the members on
+    that server. The same holds for a followers-only post's refetch, which used to answer 404, and a 404 on refetch
+    makes Mastodon delete its copy. Reporting the numeric-inbox recipient loss upstream is still worth doing.
+- **With SecureMode on** (all six peers, 2026-10-04) every federation check passes: Mastodon, GoToSocial, Misskey,
+  Sharkey, Akkoma and Lemmy all sign their fetches, and fetch our instance actor's key unsigned first.
 - Inbound `Block` from Mastodon is not enforced yet (P7).

 ### GoToSocial: 0.22.1 (2026-07-20)
@@ -233,7 +237,10 @@ Findings:

 **Pasture evidence (2026-10-03, GoToSocial 0.22.1, `tools/pasture/scenarios/gts.sh`):** 37 checks pass, three runs in a
 row. That is the original 33 plus four on statistics: described as gotosocial, inbound and outbound traffic counted,
-no account named.
+no account named. Since 2026-10-04 (v1.19.0) circle posts reach a GoToSocial member too. GoToSocial files a post for
+neither the public nor the author's followers as a direct message, like our DMs, and shows it only to the accounts it
+mentions. Being in `cc` stored it but left it invisible, so each member's copy also mentions that member silently.
+Such posts are then found in the member's conversations, never by a search on their URI.

 ### Misskey family: Misskey 2026.10.0, Sharkey 2025.4.7, Iceshrimp.NET 2026.1.2-beta, CherryPick 4.17

@@ -310,6 +317,26 @@ Firefish is dead (its site has answered 410 since February 2025).
 | Per-attachment `sensitive`; `isCat` and other actor extras; enforce `requireSignin…` and `makeNotes…Before` on our public pages | P2 | own `privapub.*` |
 | Quotes: when we send one, send every key (`quote`, `_misskey_quote`, `quoteUrl`, `quoteUri`, a FEP-e232 tag, the `RE:` fallback) | P2 | — |

+**Pasture evidence (2026-10-03, Misskey 2026.10.0, `tools/pasture/scenarios/misskey.sh`):** 35 checks pass:
+- discovery and follows both ways;
+- posts, CW and the MFM `source` kept;
+- replies threading both ways;
+- 👍 and 🎉 reactions both ways, and their withdrawal;
+- a like counting as a reaction;
+- legacy quotes both ways (`_misskey_quote` in, `renoteId` out);
+- polls and votes both ways;
+- `specified` notes as DMs both ways;
+- images with alt text (`comment`) both ways;
+- deletes both ways, unfollow and block;
+- statistics.
+
+A new Misskey 2026 starts with `federation: none`.
+
+**Pasture evidence (2026-10-03, Sharkey 2025.4.7, `tools/pasture/scenarios/sharkey.sh`):** 40 checks pass, the whole
+Misskey scenario under Sharkey's name and then what only Sharkey does:
+- its edits arrive as edits, and ours reach it;
+- its quote carries the FEP-e232 `Link` tag and is understood.
+
 ### Pleroma 2.10.2 and Akkoma 3.20.1

 **Emits**
@@ -321,6 +348,7 @@ Firefish is dead (its site has answered 410 since February 2025).
 - **Edit history:** `formerRepresentations`, an OrderedCollection of earlier versions.
 - **Reactions:** `EmojiReact{content: ":name:", tag:[Emoji]}`, several per user; separate from Like.
 - **Polls:** `votersCount` (Pleroma 2.10.1, Akkoma 3.20). A vote is a `Note{name, inReplyTo, to:[], cc:[owner]}`.
+  An open poll's end is in `closed`, and Akkoma sends no `endTime` (pasture, 3.20.1).
 - **Pleroma only:**
  - `ChatMessage`, sent only to actors with `capabilities.acceptsChatMessages`;
  - `Listen{Audio}`;
@@ -333,6 +361,8 @@ Firefish is dead (its site has answered 410 since February 2025).
 - **Pleroma's inbox guard answers 400 for unknown activity types:** `Move`, `QuoteRequest` and `Bite` are not on its
  list (develop, 2026-09-30). Treat that 4xx as final.
 - **Signatures (Akkoma):** `host` must be signed and match; signatures up to 2 h old and up to 40 min in the future.
+- **Visibility is guessed from addresses:** a post is private only if an address in `to` contains `/followers` or its
+  `cc` is not empty; otherwise it is direct. Our followers-only posts therefore name `/groupies` in `cc` too.
 - **Activity ids** must be at least 8 bytes.
 - **ObjectAgePolicy** (default in both) delists anything older than 7 days, so `published` must be accurate.
 - **Quotes:** Pleroma's InlineQuotePolicy rewrites incoming quotes into "RT: url" text. **Neither reads FEP-044f
@@ -349,6 +379,35 @@ Firefish is dead (its site has answered 410 since February 2025).
 | `ChatMessage` in as a direct message (also needed for Lemmy, Mbin and PieFed); advertise `acceptsChatMessages` only once it is answered | P1 (in), P3 (out) | `visibility: direct`, Conversations |
 | `Listen`, `vcard:bday`, `backgroundUrl` | P3 | own |

+**Pasture evidence (2026-10-03, Akkoma 3.20.1, `tools/pasture/scenarios/akkoma.sh`):** 44 checks pass, three runs in a
+row. Akkoma publishes no image, so `tools/pasture/images/akkoma` installs its OTP release, pinned by checksum. Covered:
+- discovery and follows both ways;
+- posts, CW and followers-only posts;
+- the `published` time kept;
+- replies both ways and their notification;
+- likes and boosts both ways with their undos;
+- `EmojiReact` both ways and its withdrawal;
+- DMs both ways and off public timelines;
+- polls and votes both ways;
+- quotes both ways (`quote_id` out of its API, `quoteUri` in ours);
+- images with alt text both ways;
+- edits with history, and deletes, both ways;
+- unfollow, block and unblock;
+- statistics.
+
+It found two bugs, both fixed:
+- **Followers-only posts arrived as DMs.** Akkoma, like Pleroma, calls a post private only if an address in `to` contains
+  `/followers` or its `cc` is not empty. Ours is `/groupies` and a post mentioning nobody had an empty `cc`. Followers-only
+  posts now name the followers collection in `cc` as well, which tells nobody anything new.
+- **Open polls were shown as ended, and votes refused.** An open Akkoma poll carries its end in `closed`, with no
+  `endTime`. A `closed` in the future is now read as the end.
+
+Seen along the way:
+- Its Linkify never takes `@user@host.test` for a mention, whatever `validate_tld` says, so in the pasture Akkoma
+  addresses us with Pleroma's `to[]`. Real top-level domains are unaffected.
+- It records our `Block` (`user_relationships`) but never reports a remote blocker as `blocked_by`.
+- Its streamer crashes rendering a new DM conversation (`ConversationView`, a nil `last_status`); delivery is unaffected.
+
 ### Lemmy: 0.19.20 live (lemmy.ml); 1.0.0-beta.2 (2026-09-25) in beta since May

 join-lemmy.org's federation page is out of date. Current Lemmy neither sends nor reads `stickied` or `commentsEnabled`
@@ -412,7 +471,7 @@ on a Page: pins live in `featured`, locks in `Lock`.
 | Link posts: keep `Link.href`, the thumbnail `image` and alt text; build the card (Lemmy sends no title or description for the link) | P1 | `Status.card` |
 | `ChatMessage` in and out (out only to Lemmy < 1.0 and Mbin; `Note` to everyone else) | P1 | `visibility: direct` |
 | Outbound shape for Lemmy: both `to` and `cc`; the community in `to`; Public in the object, Create and Announce; votes and comments sent to the community inbox | P1 | — |
-| Communities we host: announce to every follower instance including the author's; pick `Announce(object)` per peer by NodeInfo (as PieFed does) | P1 | — |
+| Communities we host: pick `Announce(object)` per peer by NodeInfo (as PieFed does). Announcing to every follower instance, the author's included, is done and needed (pasture evidence below) | P1 | — |
 | Flags from a `Service`-typed reporter actor with `to: [community]`; the reporter stays anonymous | P2 | — |
 | `Warn` → `moderation_warning` notification; `Resolve{Flag}` | P2 | AccountWarning |
 | Remote communities: `description`, `language[]`, private (`locked`), `discoverable`; post tags | P2 | `Account.locked`, own `privapub.flairs[]` |
@@ -420,6 +479,35 @@ on a Page: pins live in `featured`, locks in `Lock`.
 | `Feed` actors | P2 | group-like account |
 | Read 1.0 `context`, grouped by root post; cross-post detection by URL | P3 | — |

+**Pasture evidence (2026-10-03, Lemmy 1.0.0-beta.2, `tools/pasture/scenarios/lemmy.sh`):** 20 checks pass and 3 are
+expected failures:
+- communities both ways: Lemmy follows ours and alice follows Lemmy's, each Accept arriving;
+- a Lemmy thread in our community arrives with its title, and our titled community post reaches Lemmy;
+- the Lemmy community's Announce brings its thread to alice's home;
+- alice's post mentioning a Lemmy community lands in it, titled from its first line (Lemmy repeats that line in the
+  body);
+- comments both ways, and alice's like counted as an upvote;
+- private messages both ways: 1.0 takes our single-recipient direct `Note`, and sends its own as `Note`s;
+- statistics.
+
+What it showed:
+- **1.0 keeps its user's thread in a remote community `federation_pending` until the community announces it back**, and
+  clears the flag *before* answering that echo 400 (`Object is not remote`). Without the echo the thread stays pending,
+  so `GroupDistributor` sends the `Announce{Create}` to the author's own server on purpose.
+- **Every bare `Announce{object}` is answered 400** (`Failed to parse object`: Lemmy dereferences it expecting an
+  activity), as Lemmy answers the compatibility `Announce(Page)` it sends itself. Both 400s show up as dead deliveries
+  in the statistics.
+- **Votes travel only to the community**, which relays them as `Announce{Like}` and `Announce{Dislike}`. They are
+  dropped as `unsupported` until P7 (expected failures), as is a moderator's removal.
+- Lemmy logs no refused activity at `warn`; the reason is in the 400's body, which our delivery does not keep. The
+  scenario's API notes: `sort` values are lowercase (`new`), private messages and mentions are in
+  `account/notification/list`, and `resolve_object` takes both `!community@host` and `@user@host`.
+- **1.0 sends nothing it queued for a server before it started that server's send worker.** A worker starts, up to a
+  minute after the server is first seen, at the newest activity and skips everything older. On a clean pasture its
+  first Follow of our community was lost, so the scenario waits for the worker (`federation_queue_state`). On the
+  public network the same applies to the first thing a Lemmy sends to a PrivaPub it has just discovered.
+- 0.19 cannot join the pasture: its rustls trusts only its bundled roots, never Caddy's CA.
+
 ### PieFed 1.7.17 and Mbin 1.10.1

 - **PieFed sends Lemmy's set plus:**
@@ -17,7 +17,29 @@ Written 2026-10-01 from the original 2023 code, the decePubClient UI, a federati
  - daily rollups, every touched server described and located, the admin statistics API, the opt-in crawler and `/stargazing`;
  - the pasture as plugins: GoToSocial 37/37, Mastodon 49 plus 2 expected failures.

-  Still open: T10 (GoToSocial gaps), T12 Misskey/Sharkey, T13 Akkoma, T14 Lemmy, and installing the geolocation timer on Max.
+  T10 and T12–T14: v1.17.1, deployed and verified 2026-10-03. The pasture runs all six peers in one pass:
+  - GoToSocial 54 plus 1 expected failure;
+  - Mastodon 49 plus 2;
+  - Misskey 35, Sharkey 40, Akkoma 44;
+  - Lemmy 20 plus 3.
+
+  The expected failures are circle posts on GoToSocial and Mastodon, inbound Block, and Lemmy's relayed votes and
+  removals (P7). It found three bugs, all fixed:
+  - quick GoToSocial edits were lost;
+  - followers-only posts arrived as DMs on Pleroma and Akkoma;
+  - Akkoma's open polls showed as ended and refused votes.
+
+  Both open items were closed without a root step (owner decisions, 2026-10-04): the server fetches its geolocation
+  databases itself, and the deploy makes and signs in as @thepra.
+- [ ] Everything on in production (owner decisions 2026-10-04):
+  - v1.18.0, deployed and verified 2026-10-04: geolocation that updates itself (DB-IP Lite 2026-10 loaded), the deploy
+    signing in as @thepra (undiscoverable), the crawler on (1010 servers known within the hour), sign-up by invitation
+    with one registrations switch;
+  - v1.19.0, 2026-10-04: circle posts reach Mastodon and GoToSocial members (each copy names and mentions its member),
+    followers-only, direct and circle posts served to signed refetches from those they were for, SecureMode on (all six
+    pasture peers pass under it), and account privacy (sign-in and recovery say nothing, recovery codes hashed for an
+    hour, a recovered password ends every session, a deleted root's personas and groups are deleted everywhere);
+  - still to come: one answer everywhere (the mismatch sweep).
 - [ ] P7 Threads, communities, moderation, the social graph
 - [ ] P8 Signatures, discovery, the long tail

@@ -146,10 +168,24 @@ and circles (see Owner decisions).
 | Local side in statistics | **Only the kind of local actor** (person, group, application), **and only on public and unlisted traffic.** DMs, followers-only and circle traffic are one "private" class, never broken out per server in public. Circles are never named, whether as a kind or as a reason. Fetches of our own documents are counted per day, never per server. |
 | Reading-driven traffic | **Counted per day, never logged per event:** the media proxy, lookups a client asks for, and the client API per endpoint group (admin only). Client app names are not recorded. |
 | Describing servers | **Every server we exchange activities with is described weekly**, from its NodeInfo (including the user counts it publishes) and its Mastodon instance API, never its contact account. These requests are unsigned, because they are not ActivityPub documents. Never on read. |
-| Server locations | **City and network (ASN) from the offline DB-IP Lite databases** (CC BY 4.0, attributed), downloaded monthly outside the app. The location comes from the address we connected to; an inbound sender's address is never recorded, and no address is stored. In public: city and network only for servers reporting at least 10 users and not behind a CDN; the country otherwise; only the CDN's name for CDN-fronted servers. The admin sees everything. |
-| Crawler | **Off by default** (`Statistics:Crawler:Enabled`). When on, it identifies as `PrivaPub-Stargazer/<version> (+https://privapub.thepra.dev/stargazing)`, where `/stargazing` explains it and how to opt out. It honours robots.txt (an unreachable robots.txt means "keep out") and domain blocks. It visits one server a minute, each at most weekly, and at most 5000 servers. It reads only robots.txt, NodeInfo, the instance API and the peers list, never accounts, posts or directories. Crawled servers stay marked as crawled. |
+| Server locations | **City and network (ASN) from the offline DB-IP Lite databases** (CC BY 4.0, attributed), downloaded monthly (by the server itself since 2026-10-04). The location comes from the address we connected to; an inbound sender's address is never recorded, and no address is stored. In public: city and network only for servers reporting at least 10 users and not behind a CDN; the country otherwise; only the CDN's name for CDN-fronted servers. The admin sees everything. |
+| Crawler | **Off by default** (`Statistics:Crawler:Enabled`); **on in production since 2026-10-04**, see below. When on, it identifies as `PrivaPub-Stargazer/<version> (+https://privapub.thepra.dev/stargazing)`, where `/stargazing` explains it and how to opt out. It honours robots.txt (an unreachable robots.txt means "keep out") and domain blocks. It visits one server a minute, each at most weekly, and at most 5000 servers. It reads only robots.txt, NodeInfo, the instance API and the peers list, never accounts, posts or directories. Crawled servers stay marked as crawled. |
 | A remote account deletes itself | **Its posts are kept but hidden everywhere** (`Post.AuthorGone`): from timelines, profiles, search and lookups by id. Its follows and timeline rows go, as before. |
-| Signed-in smoke check in production | **An undiscoverable persona**, whose read-only token is the Gitea secret `PRIVAPUB_SMOKE_TOKEN`; the deploy checks `verify_credentials`, home and notifications with it. The owner creates both. |
+| Signed-in smoke check in production | **An undiscoverable persona**, the deploy checks `verify_credentials`, home and notifications with it. *Superseded 2026-10-04: the deploy makes and keeps the persona itself, below.* |
+
+### Owner decisions on running everything in production (2026-10-04)
+
+| Question | Decision |
+|---|---|
+| What runs in production | **Everything that is built is on and checked by the deploy**, and nothing waits on a person running a command. |
+| Geolocation | **The server fetches DB-IP Lite itself** (`GeoUpdater`): it checks daily, installs a new month's databases once they are published, refuses a file that does not open as the right kind of database, and keeps the old one when anything fails. No timer and no root step. The deploy fails if the databases are missing or more than 40 days old. |
+| Crawler | **On in production**, seeded with a handful of large servers of different kinds (`appsettings.Production.json`); the deploy fails if `/stargazing` does not say it is on. |
+| Sign-up | **Closed: invitations only.** A group invitation creates an account; open sign-up answers 403. NodeInfo, `/api/v1/instance` and `/api/v2/instance` read the same switch (`Registrations:Mode`), and the deploy fails if they disagree. The first login on a server is made with `PrivaPub admin create-root`. |
+| Signed-in smoke check | **`@thepra`, undiscoverable, made and kept by the deploy**: `PrivaPub admin smoke thepra` creates or keeps the root `deploy-smoke` and the persona and gives the root a new password on every deploy; the deploy signs in through the real OAuth flow, checks the signed-in API and revokes its token. No secret is stored. |
+| Signed fetches (SecureMode) | **On in production** once the pasture passes with it on (Phase 2 of the 2026-10-04 plan). |
+| Circles on Mastodon and GoToSocial | **Each member's copy names that member** in `cc`; a member's refetch names the member, an instance actor's refetch the members on its server. Nothing new is revealed to anyone outside the circle. |
+| What circles and located posts reveal | **Unchanged**: circles still answer WebFinger, and circle and located posts still count in a persona's post count, "a good balance for the fediverse to work". |
+| Public `/stargazing` statistics | **Later**, as decided on 2026-10-03; the crawler and the admin API keep collecting meanwhile. |

 ## Libraries (researched; no maintained .NET ActivityPub library exists, so Letterbook and Iceshrimp.NET both wrote their own)

@@ -551,9 +587,9 @@ statistics gain value with every day recorded.
 | T1–T4 | Tests stop sharing state they don't own. CI runs every test against a throwaway mongod. The whole server runs under test (`WebApplicationFactory`). Nothing answers 500. | v1.15.1 |
 | M1–M6 | The interaction ledger: inbox answers, handler verdicts, delivery attempts, outbound requests, served and client traffic. Provenance fixes (fetched records, stored extensions, group-wrapped Update/Delete). | v1.16.0 |
 | T5–T8 | Coverage sweep over HTTP: OAuth, `/clientapi`, the Mastodon API, federation GETs, inbox gaps, jobs, migrations, pages. | v1.17.0 |
-| M7–M10 | Daily rollups (`InstanceDay`, `ServerDay`). Every touched server described weekly (NodeInfo usage, instance API, snapshots). Geolocation (DB-IP Lite city and ASN). Admin statistics API under `/clientapi/admin/statistics`. | v1.18.0 |
-| T9–T14 | The pasture as plugins. GoToSocial gaps, then Mastodon, Misskey/Sharkey, Akkoma and Lemmy 1.0, each run also checking that peer's statistics. | v1.18.x |
-| M11 | The opt-in crawler (`PrivaPub-Stargazer`) and the `/stargazing` explainer. | v1.19.0 |
+| M7–M10 | Daily rollups (`InstanceDay`, `ServerDay`). Every touched server described weekly (NodeInfo usage, instance API, snapshots). Geolocation (DB-IP Lite city and ASN). Admin statistics API under `/clientapi/admin/statistics`. | v1.17.0 (planned v1.18.0) |
+| T9–T14 | The pasture as plugins. GoToSocial gaps, then Mastodon, Misskey/Sharkey, Akkoma and Lemmy 1.0, each run also checking that peer's statistics. | v1.17.0, v1.17.1 |
+| M11 | The opt-in crawler (`PrivaPub-Stargazer`) and the `/stargazing` explainer. | v1.17.0 (planned v1.19.0) |

 Later, and not part of these steps: the public `/stargazing` statistics. It is anonymous, cached and rate-limited, and
 covers per-server software, self-published counts, location as projected by the rule above, availability buckets and
@@ -17,3 +17,23 @@ mastodon.test {
 	tls internal
 	reverse_proxy pasture-mastodon:3000
 }
+
+misskey.test {
+	tls internal
+	reverse_proxy pasture-misskey:3000
+}
+
+sharkey.test {
+	tls internal
+	reverse_proxy pasture-sharkey:3000
+}
+
+lemmy.test {
+	tls internal
+	reverse_proxy pasture-lemmy:8536
+}
+
+akkoma.test {
+	tls internal
+	reverse_proxy pasture-akkoma:4000
+}
@@ -25,6 +25,9 @@
 		"AcceptAnyCertificate": true
 	},
 	"Media": { "Root": "/tmp/privapub-media" },
+	"RateLimits": { "AccountsPerMinute": 1000 },
+	"Registrations": { "Mode": "Open" },
+	"Statistics": { "Geo": { "AutoUpdate": false } },
 	"Kestrel": { "Endpoints": { "Http": { "Url": "http://0.0.0.0:80", "Protocols": "Http1AndHttp2" } } },
 	"Serilog": {
 		"MinimumLevel": { "Default": "Information", "Override": { "Microsoft": "Warning", "System": "Warning" } },
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+# Akkoma publishes no image, so this is its OTP release on the Ubuntu it is built for. The "stable" zip moves; the
+# checksum pins 3.20.1 and fails the build when stable has moved on.
+FROM docker.io/library/ubuntu:22.04
+ARG AKKOMA_ZIP=https://akkoma-updates.s3-website.fr-par.scw.cloud/stable/akkoma-amd64.zip
+ARG AKKOMA_SHA256=a06d1077dc43357923ffbebbee509f1faa2d66ae6078828ad35f9ad34ec6f96c
+RUN apt-get update \
+	&& DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
+		ca-certificates curl unzip libncurses5 libmagic1 libmagic-mgc file postgresql-client \
+	&& rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+RUN curl -fsSL "$AKKOMA_ZIP" -o /tmp/akkoma.zip \
+	&& echo "$AKKOMA_SHA256  /tmp/akkoma.zip" | sha256sum -c - \
+	&& unzip -q /tmp/akkoma.zip -d /tmp && mv /tmp/release /opt/akkoma && rm /tmp/akkoma.zip \
+	&& mkdir -p /var/lib/akkoma/uploads /var/lib/akkoma/static /etc/akkoma
+ENV AKKOMA_CONFIG_PATH=/etc/akkoma/config.exs PLEROMA_CONFIG_PATH=/etc/akkoma/config.exs LANG=C.UTF-8 ELIXIR_ERL_OPTIONS=+fnu
+COPY entrypoint.sh /entrypoint.sh
+ENTRYPOINT ["/entrypoint.sh"]
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# Trusts the pasture's CA, writes the config on first start, migrates, and runs Akkoma in the foreground.
+set -e
+cp /pasture/ca/root.crt /usr/local/share/ca-certificates/pasture.crt && update-ca-certificates >/dev/null
+# Mint and hackney read the bundles shipped in the release (CAStore, certifi), never the system's
+for bundle in /opt/akkoma/lib/castore-*/priv/cacerts.pem /opt/akkoma/lib/certifi-*/priv/cacerts.pem; do
+	grep -q "pasture" "$bundle" || { echo "# pasture"; cat /pasture/ca/root.crt; } >> "$bundle"
+done
+if [ ! -f /etc/akkoma/config.exs ]; then
+	# pleroma_ctl passes its arguments on unquoted, so no value may contain a space
+	env -u AKKOMA_CONFIG_PATH -u PLEROMA_CONFIG_PATH /opt/akkoma/bin/pleroma_ctl instance gen --force --output /etc/akkoma/config.exs --output-psql /tmp/setup.psql \
+		--domain akkoma.test --instance-name PastureAkkoma --admin-email admin@akkoma.test --notify-email admin@akkoma.test \
+		--dbhost postgres --dbname akkoma --dbuser pasture --dbpass pasture --rum N --indexable N --db-configurable N \
+		--uploads-dir /var/lib/akkoma/uploads --static-dir /var/lib/akkoma/static --listen-ip 0.0.0.0 --listen-port 4000 \
+		--media-url https://akkoma.test/media --strip-uploads-metadata N --read-uploads-description Y --anonymize-uploads N \
+		</dev/null
+fi
+/opt/akkoma/bin/pleroma_ctl migrate
+exec /opt/akkoma/bin/pleroma start
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 # Drives PrivaPub and each peer (started by run.sh) through each other's federation, as their users would, then checks
 # that PrivaPub's statistics saw it all without naming anyone.
-# usage: tools/pasture/interop.sh [peer...]        peers: gts (default)
+# usage: tools/pasture/interop.sh [peer...]        peers: gts (default), mastodon, misskey, sharkey, akkoma, lemmy, crawler
 set -uo pipefail
 here="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)"
 . "$here/lib/interop.sh"
@@ -14,6 +14,21 @@ site() { curl -k --resolve "$1:6443:127.0.0.1" "${@:2}"; }
 # fetches one of PrivaPub's own https URIs (ids, scribbles) from the workstation, through Caddy
 pfetch() { curl -sk --connect-to privapub.test:443:127.0.0.1:6443 "$@"; }

+# make_png <path>: an 8x8 red PNG, for uploads
+# the status an unsigned ActivityPub GET of a PrivaPub document gets
+pstatus() { pfetch -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' -H 'Accept: application/activity+json' "$1"; }
+# SecureMode (PRIVAPUB_ENV="Federation__SecureMode=true") answers every unsigned GET but the instance actor's 401, so a
+# post's author answering 401 means it is on; then 401 is what "not served" and "gone" look like to an unsigned reader
+secure_mode() { [ "$(pstatus "${1%%/scribbles/*}")" = "401" ]; }
+unserved() { local code; code=$(pstatus "$1"); if secure_mode "$1"; then [ "$code" = 401 ]; else [ "$code" = 404 ]; fi; }
+gone_unsigned() { local code; code=$(pstatus "$1"); if secure_mode "$1"; then [ "$code" = 401 ]; else [ "$code" = 410 ]; fi; }
+make_png() { python3 -c "
+import struct,zlib
+w=h=8
+raw=b''.join(b'\x00'+bytes([200,60,60])*w for _ in range(h))
+png=b'\x89PNG\r\n\x1a\n'+b''.join(struct.pack('>I',len(c))+t+c+struct.pack('>I',zlib.crc32(t+c)&0xffffffff) for t,c in [(b'IHDR',struct.pack('>IIBBBBB',w,h,8,2,0,0,0)),(b'IDAT',zlib.compress(raw)),(b'IEND',b'')])
+open('$1','wb').write(png)"; }
+
 ROOT_USER=pastureroot; ROOT_PASS='Pasture-Pass-1!'
 privapub_root() {
 	local root
@@ -22,37 +37,14 @@ privapub_root() {
 	echo "$root" | j "print(d['token'])"
 }

-# privapub_token <persona>: creates the persona under the pasture root if needed and returns a Mastodon token for it.
+# privapub_token <persona>: creates the persona under the pasture root if needed and returns a Mastodon token for it,
+# through the same OAuth flow the deploy's smoke check uses (tools/smoke/oauth.sh).
 privapub_token() {
-	local persona=$1 jwt cid cs q xt form code
+	local persona=$1 jwt
 	jwt=$(privapub_root)
 	curl -s -o /dev/null -X POST $P/clientapi/avatar/private/insert -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H "Authorization: Bearer $jwt" \
 		-d "{\"userName\":\"$persona\",\"name\":\"$persona of PrivaPub\",\"biography\":\"testing federation\"}"
-	local app; app=$(curl -s -X POST $P/api/v1/apps -d 'client_name=pasture&redirect_uris=urn:ietf:wg:oauth:2.0:oob&scopes=read+write+follow')
-	cid=$(echo "$app" | j "print(d['client_id'])"); cs=$(echo "$app" | j "print(d['client_secret'])")
-	q="client_id=$cid&redirect_uri=urn:ietf:wg:oauth:2.0:oob&response_type=code&scope=read+write+follow"
-	local jar="$work/jar-$persona"
-	xt=$(curl -s -c "$jar" -b "$jar" "$P/oauth/login?returnUrl=/oauth/authorize?$q" | grep -o 'name="__RequestVerificationToken" type="hidden" value="[^"]*"' | sed 's/.*value="//;s/"//')
-	curl -s -o /dev/null -c "$jar" -b "$jar" -X POST $P/oauth/login --data-urlencode "returnUrl=/oauth/authorize?$q" --data-urlencode "__RequestVerificationToken=$xt" \
-		--data-urlencode "userName=$ROOT_USER" --data-urlencode "password=$ROOT_PASS"
-	curl -s -c "$jar" -b "$jar" "$P/oauth/authorize?$q&signed_in=1" > "$work/choose-$persona.html"
-	form=$(python3 - "$work/choose-$persona.html" "$persona" <<'PY'
-import re,sys,urllib.parse,html
-s=open(sys.argv[1]).read()
-pairs=[(k,html.unescape(v)) for k,v in re.findall(r'<input type="hidden" name="([^"]*)" value="([^"]*)"',s)]
-blocks=re.findall(r'<label[^>]*>(.*?)</label>',s,re.S)
-avatar=None
-for b in blocks:
-    if '@'+sys.argv[2]+'@' in b or '@'+sys.argv[2]+'<' in b or '>'+sys.argv[2]+'<' in b:
-        m=re.search(r'name="avatarId" value="([^"]*)"',b)
-        if m: avatar=m.group(1)
-if avatar is None:
-    avatar=re.findall(r'name="avatarId" value="([^"]*)"',s)[0]
-print(urllib.parse.urlencode(pairs+[("avatarId",avatar),("decision","allow")]))
-PY
-)
-	code=$(curl -s -c "$jar" -b "$jar" -X POST $P/oauth/authorize --data "$form" | grep -o '<code>[^<]*</code>' | sed 's/<[^>]*>//g')
-	curl -s -X POST $P/oauth/token -d "grant_type=authorization_code&code=$code&client_id=$cid&client_secret=$cs&redirect_uri=urn:ietf:wg:oauth:2.0:oob" | j "print(d['access_token'])"
+	"$here/../smoke/oauth.sh" "$P" "$ROOT_USER" "$ROOT_PASS" "$persona" "read write follow" | cut -d' ' -f1
 }

 # stats_check <host> <software>: the admin statistics name the peer's software and count traffic both ways.
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 here="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/.." && pwd)"; repo="$(cd "$here/../.." && pwd)"
 net=privapub-pasture; publish="$here/.publish"; ca="$here/.ca"

+site() { curl -k --resolve "$1:6443:127.0.0.1" "${@:2}"; }
+
 wait_http() { # url tries
 	for _ in $(seq 1 "${2:-60}"); do curl -fsk -o /dev/null "$1" && return 0; sleep 2; done
 	echo "timed out waiting for $1" >&2; return 1
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+# Akkoma 3.20.1: our own image (images/akkoma: the OTP release, pinned by checksum) on the shared Postgres. Its config
+# is generated on first start; the scenario's user is made with pleroma_ctl and signs in with the password grant.
+AKKOMA_IMAGE=${AKKOMA_IMAGE:-localhost/pasture-akkoma:3.20.1}
+. "$here/peers/shared.sh"
+
+akkoma_up() {
+	shared_postgres_up
+	podman image exists "$AKKOMA_IMAGE" || podman build -q -t "$AKKOMA_IMAGE" "$here/images/akkoma" >/dev/null
+	podman exec pasture-postgres sh -c "psql -U pasture -tc \"select 1 from pg_database where datname='akkoma'\" | grep -q 1 || createdb -U pasture akkoma"
+	podman exec pasture-postgres psql -U pasture -d akkoma -qc 'create extension if not exists citext; create extension if not exists pg_trgm; create extension if not exists "uuid-ossp";' >/dev/null
+	mkdir -p "$here/.state/akkoma"
+	podman run -d --replace --name pasture-akkoma --network $net \
+		-v "$here/.state/akkoma:/etc/akkoma:z" -v "$ca:/pasture/ca:z,ro" "$AKKOMA_IMAGE" >/dev/null
+	for _ in $(seq 1 120); do
+		site akkoma.test -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' https://akkoma.test:6443/api/v1/instance 2>/dev/null | grep -q 200 && break
+		sleep 3
+	done
+	podman exec pasture-akkoma /opt/akkoma/bin/pleroma_ctl user new akuser akuser@akkoma.test --password Akkoma-Pasture-Pass-1 \
+		--name akuser --admin --assume-yes >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
+	local app cid cs
+	app=$(site akkoma.test -s -X POST https://akkoma.test:6443/api/v1/apps -d 'client_name=pasture&redirect_uris=urn:ietf:wg:oauth:2.0:oob&scopes=read write follow push admin')
+	cid=$(echo "$app" | python3 -c "import sys,json; print(json.load(sys.stdin)['client_id'])" 2>/dev/null)
+	cs=$(echo "$app" | python3 -c "import sys,json; print(json.load(sys.stdin)['client_secret'])" 2>/dev/null)
+	site akkoma.test -s -X POST https://akkoma.test:6443/oauth/token --data-urlencode grant_type=password --data-urlencode username=akuser \
+		--data-urlencode password=Akkoma-Pasture-Pass-1 --data-urlencode "client_id=$cid" --data-urlencode "client_secret=$cs" \
+		--data-urlencode 'scope=read write follow push admin' \
+		| python3 -c "import sys,json; print(json.load(sys.stdin)['access_token'])" > "$here/.state/akkoma.token" 2>/dev/null || true
+	echo "akkoma: https://akkoma.test:6443"
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+# Lemmy 1.0 (beta): the backend alone (no UI, no pict-rs) on the shared Postgres. 0.19's rustls ignores every CA but its
+# bundled ones, so only 1.0 can trust Caddy's; DANGER_FEDERATION_ALLOW_LOCAL_IP lets it reach the pasture's addresses.
+LEMMY_IMAGE=${LEMMY_IMAGE:-docker.io/dessalines/lemmy:1.0.0-beta.2}
+. "$here/peers/shared.sh"
+
+lemmy_up() {
+	shared_postgres_up
+	podman exec pasture-postgres sh -c "psql -U pasture -tc \"select 1 from pg_database where datname='lemmy'\" | grep -q 1 || createdb -U pasture lemmy"
+	mkdir -p "$here/.state/lemmy"
+	cat > "$here/.state/lemmy/config.hjson" <<HJSON
+{
+  database: { connection: "postgres://pasture:pasture@postgres:5432/lemmy" }
+  hostname: "lemmy.test"
+  bind: "0.0.0.0"
+  port: 8536
+  tls_enabled: true
+  setup: {
+    admin_username: "lemmyuser"
+    admin_password: "Lemmy-Pasture-Pass-1"
+    site_name: "Pasture Lemmy"
+    admin_email: "lemmyuser@lemmy.test"
+  }
+}
+HJSON
+	podman run -d --replace --name pasture-lemmy --network $net -e LEMMY_CONFIG_LOCATION=/config/config.hjson \
+		-e DANGER_FEDERATION_ALLOW_LOCAL_IP=1 -e SSL_CERT_FILE=/pasture/ca/bundle.pem -e RUST_LOG="${LEMMY_LOG:-warn}" \
+		-v "$here/.state/lemmy:/config:z,ro" -v "$ca:/pasture/ca:z,ro" $LEMMY_IMAGE >/dev/null
+	for _ in $(seq 1 90); do
+		site lemmy.test -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' https://lemmy.test:6443/api/v4/site 2>/dev/null | grep -q 200 && break
+		sleep 2
+	done
+	site lemmy.test -s -X POST https://lemmy.test:6443/api/v4/account/auth/login -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
+		-d '{"username_or_email":"lemmyuser","password":"Lemmy-Pasture-Pass-1"}' \
+		| python3 -c "import sys,json; print(json.load(sys.stdin)['jwt'])" > "$here/.state/lemmy.token" 2>/dev/null || true
+	echo "lemmy: https://lemmy.test:6443"
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+# Misskey: one container on the shared Postgres (database misskey) and Redis (db 2). The first account, made with the
+# setup password, is the scenario's user; its token is kept in .state/misskey.token.
+MISSKEY_IMAGE=${MISSKEY_IMAGE:-docker.io/misskey/misskey:2026.10.0}
+MISSKEY_NAME=${MISSKEY_NAME:-misskey}
+. "$here/peers/shared.sh"
+
+misskey_up() {
+	shared_postgres_up
+	shared_redis_up
+	podman exec pasture-postgres sh -c "psql -U pasture -tc \"select 1 from pg_database where datname='$MISSKEY_NAME'\" | grep -q 1 || createdb -U pasture $MISSKEY_NAME"
+	mkdir -p "$here/.state/$MISSKEY_NAME"
+	cat > "$here/.state/$MISSKEY_NAME/default.yml" <<YML
+url: https://$MISSKEY_NAME.test/
+port: 3000
+db:
+  host: postgres
+  port: 5432
+  db: $MISSKEY_NAME
+  user: pasture
+  pass: pasture
+dbReplications: false
+redis:
+  host: redis
+  port: 6379
+  db: ${MISSKEY_REDIS_DB:-2}
+fulltextSearch:
+  provider: sqlLike
+id: 'aidx'
+setupPassword: pasture-setup
+allowedPrivateNetworks:
+  - '10.0.0.0/8'
+  - '172.16.0.0/12'
+  - '192.168.0.0/16'
+YML
+	podman run -d --replace --name pasture-$MISSKEY_NAME --network $net -e NODE_EXTRA_CA_CERTS=/pasture/ca/root.crt \
+		-v "$here/.state/$MISSKEY_NAME:${MISSKEY_HOME:-/misskey}/.config:z,ro" -v "$ca:/pasture/ca:z,ro" $MISSKEY_IMAGE >/dev/null
+	for _ in $(seq 1 120); do
+		site "$MISSKEY_NAME.test" -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' -X POST "https://$MISSKEY_NAME.test:6443/api/meta" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{}' 2>/dev/null | grep -q 200 && break
+		sleep 3
+	done
+	site "$MISSKEY_NAME.test" -s -X POST "https://$MISSKEY_NAME.test:6443/api/admin/accounts/create" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
+		-d '{"username":"mkuser","password":"Misskey-Pasture-Pass-1","setupPassword":"pasture-setup"}' \
+		| python3 -c "import sys,json; print(json.load(sys.stdin)['token'])" > "$here/.state/$MISSKEY_NAME.token" 2>/dev/null || true
+	# a new Misskey federates with nobody (federation: none) until its admin says otherwise
+	site "$MISSKEY_NAME.test" -s -o /dev/null -X POST "https://$MISSKEY_NAME.test:6443/api/admin/update-meta" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
+		-d "{\"i\":\"$(cat "$here/.state/$MISSKEY_NAME.token")\",\"federation\":\"all\"}"
+	echo "$MISSKEY_NAME: https://$MISSKEY_NAME.test:6443"
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+# Sharkey: the Misskey peer under its own name, image, database, Redis db and home. Its scenario is Misskey's plus what
+# only Sharkey sends.
+. "$here/peers/misskey.sh"
+
+sharkey_up() {
+	MISSKEY_NAME=sharkey MISSKEY_IMAGE=${SHARKEY_IMAGE:-registry.activitypub.software/transfem-org/sharkey:2025.4.7} \
+		MISSKEY_REDIS_DB=3 MISSKEY_HOME=/sharkey misskey_up
+}
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # A private test fediverse on one podman network: PrivaPub (privapub.test) and the peers asked for, behind one Caddy
 # whose internal CA every side is told to accept (its root is copied to .ca/root.crt). From the workstation: PrivaPub's
 # API at http://127.0.0.1:6971, every site at https://<name>.test:6443 (curl --resolve <name>.test:6443:127.0.0.1 -k).
-# usage: tools/pasture/run.sh up [peer...] | down | logs <name> | ps        peers: gts (default)
+# usage: tools/pasture/run.sh up [peer...] | down | logs <name> | ps        peers: gts (default), mastodon, misskey, sharkey, akkoma, lemmy
 set -euo pipefail
 . "$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)/lib/pasture.sh"

@@ -0,0 +1,142 @@
+# Akkoma 3.20: discovery, follows, posts, CW, replies both ways, likes and boosts with their undos, emoji reactions
+# both ways, DMs, polls, quotes both ways, edits with their history, deletes, media with alt text, the published time
+# kept, blocks, statistics. Akkoma speaks the Mastodon API, with reactions under /api/v1/pleroma.
+AK=https://akkoma.test:6443
+acurl() { curl -sk --resolve akkoma.test:6443:127.0.0.1 "$@"; }
+KT=$(cat "$here/.state/akkoma.token" 2>/dev/null)
+KH="Authorization: Bearer $KT"
+# what Akkoma holds of an account, newest first; and the one status whose uri is given
+a_statuses() { acurl -H "$KH" "$AK/api/v1/accounts/$1/statuses?limit=40"; }
+a_status_by_uri() { a_statuses "$1" | j "print(json.dumps(next((s for s in d if s['uri']=='$2'), None)))"; }
+# a PrivaPub status in alice_akkoma's home whose text has the given words
+p_home_id() { curl -s -H "$PH" "$P/api/v1/timelines/home?limit=40" | j "print(next((s['id'] for s in d if '$1' in s['content']), ''))"; }
+
+echo "akkoma"
+[ -n "$KT" ] && ok "Akkoma token for akuser" || { ko "Akkoma token"; return 1; }
+PT=$(privapub_token alice_akkoma)
+PH="Authorization: Bearer $PT"
+[ -n "$PT" ] && ok "PrivaPub token for alice_akkoma" || { ko "PrivaPub token for alice_akkoma"; return 1; }
+alice_self=$(curl -s -H "$PH" "$P/api/v1/accounts/verify_credentials" | j "print(d['id'])")
+
+echo "  discovery"
+alice_on_a=$(acurl -H "$KH" "$AK/api/v2/search?q=@alice_akkoma@privapub.test&resolve=true&type=accounts" | j "print(d['accounts'][0]['id'])")
+[ -n "$alice_on_a" ] && ok "Akkoma resolves @alice_akkoma@privapub.test" || ko "Akkoma cannot resolve alice_akkoma"
+ak_on_p=$(curl -s -H "$PH" "$P/api/v2/search?q=akuser@akkoma.test&resolve=true&type=accounts" | j "print(d['accounts'][0]['id'])")
+[ -n "$ak_on_p" ] && ok "PrivaPub resolves @akuser@akkoma.test" || ko "PrivaPub cannot resolve akuser"
+
+echo "  follows"
+acurl -o /dev/null -X POST -H "$KH" "$AK/api/v1/accounts/$alice_on_a/follow"
+until_true 30 '[ "$(acurl -H "$KH" "$AK/api/v1/accounts/relationships?id[]=$alice_on_a" | j "print(d[0][\"following\"])")" = "True" ]' && ok "akuser follows alice_akkoma (Accept arrived)" || ko "Akkoma's follow not accepted"
+curl -s -o /dev/null -X POST -H "$PH" "$P/api/v1/accounts/$ak_on_p/follow"
+until_true 30 '[ "$(curl -s -H "$PH" "$P/api/v1/accounts/relationships?id[]=$ak_on_p" | j "print(d[0][\"following\"])")" = "True" ]' && ok "alice_akkoma follows akuser (Accept arrived)" || ko "PrivaPub's follow not accepted"
+
+echo "  posts"
+p_post=$(curl -s -X POST -H "$PH" $P/api/v1/statuses -d 'status=Hello Akkoma from PrivaPub&visibility=public')
+p_post_id=$(echo "$p_post" | j "print(d['id'])"); p_post_uri=$(echo "$p_post" | j "print(d['uri'])")
+until_true 30 '[ "$(a_status_by_uri "$alice_on_a" "$p_post_uri")" != "null" ]' && ok "alice_akkoma's post reaches Akkoma" || ko "post missing on Akkoma"
+p_post_on_a=$(a_status_by_uri "$alice_on_a" "$p_post_uri" | j "print(d['id'])")
+a_post=$(acurl -X POST -H "$KH" "$AK/api/v1/statuses" -d 'status=Hello PrivaPub from Akkoma&visibility=public')
+a_post_id=$(echo "$a_post" | j "print(d['id'])")
+until_true 30 '[ -n "$(p_home_id "Hello PrivaPub from Akkoma")" ]' && ok "akuser's post reaches alice_akkoma's home" || ko "Akkoma's post missing on PrivaPub"
+a_post_on_p=$(p_home_id "Hello PrivaPub from Akkoma")
+a_created=$(echo "$a_post" | j "print(d['created_at'][:19])")
+[ "$(curl -s -H "$PH" "$P/api/v1/statuses/$a_post_on_p" | j "print(d['created_at'][:19])")" = "$a_created" ] \
+	&& ok "akuser's post keeps its published time" || ko "published time changed on PrivaPub"
+cw_uri=$(curl -s -X POST -H "$PH" $P/api/v1/statuses -d 'status=behind a warning&spoiler_text=spoilers&visibility=public' | j "print(d['uri'])")
+until_true 30 '[ "$(a_status_by_uri "$alice_on_a" "$cw_uri" | j "print(d and d[\"spoiler_text\"]==\"spoilers\" and d[\"sensitive\"])")" = "True" ]' && ok "a content warning survives to Akkoma" || ko "content warning lost on Akkoma"
+fo_uri=$(curl -s -X POST -H "$PH" $P/api/v1/statuses -d 'status=only for followers&visibility=private' | j "print(d['uri'])")
+until_true 30 '[ "$(a_status_by_uri "$alice_on_a" "$fo_uri" | j "print(d and d[\"visibility\"])")" = "private" ]' && ok "a followers-only post reaches Akkoma as private" || ko "followers-only post missing or widened on Akkoma"
+
+echo "  replies"
+acurl -o /dev/null -X POST -H "$KH" "$AK/api/v1/statuses" -d "status=@alice_akkoma@privapub.test replying from Akkoma&in_reply_to_id=$p_post_on_a&visibility=public"
+until_true 30 'curl -s -H "$PH" "$P/api/v1/notifications" | j "print(any(n[\"type\"]==\"mention\" for n in d))" | grep -q True' && ok "akuser's reply notifies alice_akkoma" || ko "reply did not notify"
+until_true 15 '[ "$(curl -s -H "$PH" "$P/api/v1/statuses/$p_post_id/context" | j "print(len(d[\"descendants\"]))")" -ge 1 ]' && ok "the reply threads under alice_akkoma's post" || ko "reply not threaded on PrivaPub"
+curl -s -o /dev/null -X POST -H "$PH" $P/api/v1/statuses -d "status=@akuser@akkoma.test replying from PrivaPub&in_reply_to_id=$a_post_on_p&visibility=public"
+until_true 30 '[ "$(acurl -H "$KH" "$AK/api/v1/statuses/$a_post_id/context" | j "print(len(d[\"descendants\"]))")" -ge 1 ]' && ok "alice_akkoma's reply threads under akuser's post" || ko "outbound reply not threaded on Akkoma"
+
+echo "  likes, boosts and reactions"
+curl -s -o /dev/null -X POST -H "$PH" "$P/api/v1/statuses/$a_post_on_p/favourite"
+curl -s -o /dev/null -X POST -H "$PH" "$P/api/v1/statuses/$a_post_on_p/reblog"
+until_true 30 '[ "$(acurl -H "$KH" "$AK/api/v1/statuses/$a_post_id" | j "print(d[\"favourites_count\"], d[\"reblogs_count\"])")" = "1 1" ]' && ok "alice_akkoma's like and boost count on Akkoma" || ko "like or boost not counted on Akkoma"
+curl -s -o /dev/null -X POST -H "$PH" "$P/api/v1/statuses/$a_post_on_p/unfavourite"
+curl -s -o /dev/null -X POST -H "$PH" "$P/api/v1/statuses/$a_post_on_p/unreblog"
+until_true 30 '[ "$(acurl -H "$KH" "$AK/api/v1/statuses/$a_post_id" | j "print(d[\"favourites_count\"], d[\"reblogs_count\"])")" = "0 0" ]' && ok "alice_akkoma's unlike and unboost reach Akkoma" || ko "undo of like or boost not applied on Akkoma"
+acurl -o /dev/null -X POST -H "$KH" "$AK/api/v1/statuses/$p_post_on_a/favourite"
+acurl -o /dev/null -X POST -H "$KH" "$AK/api/v1/statuses/$p_post_on_a/reblog"
+until_true 30 '[ "$(curl -s -H "$PH" "$P/api/v1/statuses/$p_post_id" | j "print(d[\"favourites_count\"], d[\"reblogs_count\"])")" = "1 1" ]' && ok "akuser's like and boost count on PrivaPub" || ko "like or boost not counted on PrivaPub"
+acurl -o /dev/null -X POST -H "$KH" "$AK/api/v1/statuses/$p_post_on_a/unfavourite"
+acurl -o /dev/null -X POST -H "$KH" "$AK/api/v1/statuses/$p_post_on_a/unreblog"
+until_true 30 '[ "$(curl -s -H "$PH" "$P/api/v1/statuses/$p_post_id" | j "print(d[\"favourites_count\"], d[\"reblogs_count\"])")" = "0 0" ]' && ok "akuser's unlike and unboost reach PrivaPub" || ko "undo of like or boost not applied on PrivaPub"
+acurl -o /dev/null -X PUT -H "$KH" "$AK/api/v1/pleroma/statuses/$p_post_on_a/reactions/%F0%9F%8E%89"
+until_true 30 '[ "$(curl -s -H "$PH" "$P/api/v1/statuses/$p_post_id" | j "print(any(r[\"name\"]==\"🎉\" and r[\"count\"]==1 for r in d.get(\"emoji_reactions\") or []))")" = "True" ]' \
+	&& ok "akuser's 🎉 (EmojiReact) arrives as a reaction" || ko "Akkoma's reaction missing on PrivaPub"
+acurl -o /dev/null -X DELETE -H "$KH" "$AK/api/v1/pleroma/statuses/$p_post_on_a/reactions/%F0%9F%8E%89"
+until_true 30 '[ "$(curl -s -H "$PH" "$P/api/v1/statuses/$p_post_id" | j "print(len(d.get(\"emoji_reactions\") or []))")" = "0" ]' && ok "akuser's withdrawn reaction is gone" || ko "withdrawn reaction still on PrivaPub"
+curl -s -o /dev/null -X PUT -H "$PH" "$P/api/v1/pleroma/statuses/$a_post_on_p/reactions/%F0%9F%91%8D"
+until_true 30 '[ "$(acurl -H "$KH" "$AK/api/v1/statuses/$a_post_id" | j "print(any(r[\"name\"]==\"👍\" and r[\"count\"]==1 for r in (d.get(\"pleroma\") or {}).get(\"emoji_reactions\") or d.get(\"emoji_reactions\") or []))")" = "True" ]' \
+	&& ok "alice_akkoma's 👍 is a reaction on Akkoma" || ko "PrivaPub's reaction missing on Akkoma"
+curl -s -o /dev/null -X DELETE -H "$PH" "$P/api/v1/pleroma/statuses/$a_post_on_p/reactions/%F0%9F%91%8D"
+until_true 30 '[ "$(acurl -H "$KH" "$AK/api/v1/statuses/$a_post_id" | j "print(len((d.get(\"pleroma\") or {}).get(\"emoji_reactions\") or d.get(\"emoji_reactions\") or []))")" = "0" ]' && ok "alice_akkoma's withdrawn reaction is gone from Akkoma" || ko "withdrawn reaction still on Akkoma"
+
+echo "  direct messages"
+curl -s -o /dev/null -X POST -H "$PH" $P/api/v1/statuses -d 'status=@akuser@akkoma.test a secret for Akkoma&visibility=direct'
+until_true 30 'acurl -H "$KH" "$AK/api/v1/conversations" | grep -q "a secret for Akkoma"' && ok "alice_akkoma's DM reaches akuser" || ko "DM missing on Akkoma"
+# Akkoma's Linkify never takes @user@host.test for a mention, so its DM names alice with Pleroma's to[] instead
+acurl -o /dev/null -X POST -H "$KH" "$AK/api/v1/statuses" -d 'status=a secret for PrivaPub&visibility=direct&to[]=alice_akkoma@privapub.test'
+until_true 30 'curl -s -H "$PH" "$P/api/v1/conversations" | grep -q "a secret for PrivaPub"' && ok "akuser's DM reaches alice_akkoma" || ko "DM missing on PrivaPub"
+! curl -s "$P/api/v1/timelines/public" | grep -q "a secret for PrivaPub" && ok "the DM is not on PrivaPub's public timeline" || ko "DM leaked to the public timeline"
+
+echo "  polls"
+p_poll_uri=$(curl -s -X POST -H "$PH" $P/api/v1/statuses -d 'status=cats or dogs&visibility=public&poll[options][]=cats&poll[options][]=dogs&poll[expires_in]=3600' | j "print(d['uri'])")
+until_true 30 '[ "$(a_status_by_uri "$alice_on_a" "$p_poll_uri" | j "print(len(d[\"poll\"][\"options\"]))")" = "2" ]' && ok "alice_akkoma's poll reaches Akkoma as a poll" || ko "poll missing on Akkoma"
+p_poll_on_a=$(a_status_by_uri "$alice_on_a" "$p_poll_uri" | j "print(d['poll']['id'])")
+acurl -o /dev/null -X POST -H "$KH" "$AK/api/v1/polls/$p_poll_on_a/votes" -d 'choices[]=1'
+until_true 30 '[ "$(curl -s -H "$PH" "$P/api/v1/accounts/$alice_self/statuses" | j "print(next(s[\"poll\"][\"options\"][1][\"votes_count\"] for s in d if s[\"uri\"]==\"$p_poll_uri\"))")" = "1" ]' && ok "akuser's vote counts on PrivaPub" || ko "vote not counted on PrivaPub"
+a_poll=$(acurl -X POST -H "$KH" "$AK/api/v1/statuses" -d 'status=tea or coffee, Akkoma asks&visibility=public&poll[options][]=tea&poll[options][]=coffee&poll[expires_in]=3600' | j "print(d['id'])")
+until_true 30 'curl -s -H "$PH" "$P/api/v1/timelines/home" | j "print(any(s[\"poll\"] and \"Akkoma asks\" in s[\"content\"] for s in d))" | grep -q True' && ok "akuser's poll reaches PrivaPub as a poll" || ko "poll missing on PrivaPub"
+a_poll_on_p=$(curl -s -H "$PH" "$P/api/v1/timelines/home" | j "print(next(s['poll']['id'] for s in d if s['poll'] and 'Akkoma asks' in s['content']))")
+curl -s -o /dev/null -X POST -H "$PH" "$P/api/v1/polls/$a_poll_on_p/votes" -d 'choices[]=0'
+until_true 30 '[ "$(acurl -H "$KH" "$AK/api/v1/statuses/$a_poll" | j "print(d[\"poll\"][\"options\"][0][\"votes_count\"])")" = "1" ]' && ok "alice_akkoma's vote counts on Akkoma" || ko "vote not counted on Akkoma"
+
+echo "  quotes"
+a_quote=$(acurl -X POST -H "$KH" "$AK/api/v1/statuses" -d "status=quoting PrivaPub&visibility=public&quote_id=$p_post_on_a" | j "print(d['id'])")
+until_true 30 'curl -s -H "$PH" "$P/api/v1/timelines/home" | j "print(any(\"quoting PrivaPub\" in s[\"content\"] and (s.get(\"quote\") or {}).get(\"state\")==\"accepted\" for s in d))" | grep -q True' \
+	&& ok "akuser's quote arrives as an accepted quote" || ko "Akkoma's quote not understood"
+p_quote_uri=$(curl -s -X POST -H "$PH" $P/api/v1/statuses -d "status=quoting Akkoma&visibility=public&quoted_status_id=$a_post_on_p" | j "print(d['uri'])")
+until_true 30 '[ "$(a_status_by_uri "$alice_on_a" "$p_quote_uri" | j "print(d and ((d.get(\"quote\") or {}).get(\"id\") or d.get(\"quote_id\") or (d.get(\"pleroma\") or {}).get(\"quote_id\")) == \"$a_post_id\")")" = "True" ]' \
+	&& ok "alice_akkoma's quote is a quote on Akkoma" || ko "quote not understood by Akkoma"
+
+echo "  media"
+make_png "$work/red.png"
+p_media=$(curl -s -X POST -H "$PH" "$P/api/v2/media" -F "file=@$work/red.png;type=image/png" -F 'description=a red square' | j "print(d['id'])")
+p_media_uri=$(curl -s -X POST -H "$PH" $P/api/v1/statuses -d "status=a picture&visibility=public&media_ids[]=$p_media" | j "print(d['uri'])")
+until_true 30 '[ "$(a_status_by_uri "$alice_on_a" "$p_media_uri" | j "print(d[\"media_attachments\"][0][\"description\"])")" = "a red square" ]' && ok "an image with alt text reaches Akkoma" || ko "image or alt text missing on Akkoma"
+a_media=$(acurl -X POST -H "$KH" "$AK/api/v1/media" -F "file=@$work/red.png;type=image/png" -F 'description=a red square from Akkoma' | j "print(d['id'])")
+acurl -o /dev/null -X POST -H "$KH" "$AK/api/v1/statuses" -d "status=a picture from Akkoma&visibility=public&media_ids[]=$a_media"
+until_true 30 'curl -s -H "$PH" "$P/api/v1/timelines/home" | j "print(any(\"a picture from Akkoma\" in s[\"content\"] and s[\"media_attachments\"] and \"/media/proxy/\" in s[\"media_attachments\"][0][\"url\"] and s[\"media_attachments\"][0][\"description\"]==\"a red square from Akkoma\" for s in d))" | grep -q True' \
+	&& ok "an image with alt text from Akkoma arrives through our proxy" || ko "Akkoma's image missing, unproxied or without alt text"
+
+echo "  edits and deletes"
+curl -s -o /dev/null -X PUT -H "$PH" "$P/api/v1/statuses/$p_post_id" -d 'status=Hello Akkoma from PrivaPub, edited'
+until_true 30 'acurl -H "$KH" "$AK/api/v1/statuses/$p_post_on_a" | grep -q "edited"' && ok "alice_akkoma's edit reaches Akkoma" || ko "edit not applied on Akkoma"
+acurl -o /dev/null -X PUT -H "$KH" "$AK/api/v1/statuses/$a_post_id" -d 'status=Hello PrivaPub from Akkoma, edited'
+until_true 30 '[ "$(curl -s -H "$PH" "$P/api/v1/statuses/$a_post_on_p/history" | j "print(len(d))")" = "2" ]' && ok "akuser's edit reaches PrivaPub with its history" || ko "Akkoma's edit not applied on PrivaPub"
+cw_on_a=$(a_status_by_uri "$alice_on_a" "$cw_uri" | j "print(d['id'])")
+cw_id=$(curl -s -H "$PH" "$P/api/v1/accounts/$alice_self/statuses" | j "print(next(s['id'] for s in d if s['uri']=='$cw_uri'))")
+curl -s -o /dev/null -X DELETE -H "$PH" "$P/api/v1/statuses/$cw_id"
+until_true 30 '[ "$(acurl -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" -H "$KH" "$AK/api/v1/statuses/$cw_on_a")" = "404" ]' && ok "alice_akkoma's delete reaches Akkoma" || ko "delete not applied on Akkoma"
+acurl -o /dev/null -X DELETE -H "$KH" "$AK/api/v1/statuses/$a_poll"
+until_true 30 '! curl -s -H "$PH" "$P/api/v1/timelines/home" | grep -q "Akkoma asks"' && ok "akuser's delete reaches PrivaPub" || ko "Akkoma's delete not applied on PrivaPub"
+
+echo "  blocks and unfollows"
+curl -s -o /dev/null -X POST -H "$PH" "$P/api/v1/accounts/$ak_on_p/unfollow"
+until_true 30 '[ "$(acurl -H "$KH" "$AK/api/v1/accounts/relationships?id[]=$alice_on_a" | j "print(d[0][\"followed_by\"])")" = "False" ]' && ok "alice_akkoma's unfollow reaches Akkoma" || ko "unfollow not applied on Akkoma"
+curl -s -o /dev/null -X POST -H "$PH" "$P/api/v1/accounts/$ak_on_p/block"
+# Akkoma never reports a remote blocker as blocked_by, so the block is read from its user_relationships (1 is a block)
+a_blocked() { podman exec pasture-postgres psql -U pasture -d akkoma -tAc "select count(*) from user_relationships r join users a on a.id=r.source_id join users b on b.id=r.target_id where r.relationship_type=1 and a.nickname='alice_akkoma@privapub.test' and b.nickname='akuser'"; }
+until_true 30 '[ "$(a_blocked)" = "1" ]' && ok "alice_akkoma's block reaches Akkoma" || ko "block not applied on Akkoma"
+curl -s -o /dev/null -X POST -H "$PH" "$P/api/v1/accounts/$ak_on_p/unblock"
+until_true 30 '[ "$(a_blocked)" = "0" ]' && ok "alice_akkoma's unblock reaches Akkoma" || ko "unblock not applied on Akkoma"
+
+echo "  statistics"
+stats_check akkoma.test akkoma
@@ -101,6 +101,96 @@ curl -s -o /dev/null -X DELETE -H "$PH" $P/api/v1/statuses/$cw
 gcurl -s -o /dev/null -X DELETE -H "$GH" $G/api/v1/statuses/$gts_post
 until_true 20 '! curl -s -H "$PH" "$P/api/v1/timelines/home" | grep -q "Hello from GoToSocial"' && ok "gtsuser's delete reaches PrivaPub" || ko "remote delete not applied"

+echo "more replies, edits and undos"
+gts_edit=$(gcurl -s -X POST -H "$GH" $G/api/v1/statuses -d 'status=GoToSocial before the edit&visibility=public' | j "print(d['id'])")
+until_true 20 'curl -s -H "$PH" "$P/api/v1/timelines/home" | grep -q "GoToSocial before the edit"' || true
+gts_edit_on_pp=$(curl -s -H "$PH" "$P/api/v1/timelines/home" | j "print(next(s['id'] for s in d if 'GoToSocial before the edit' in s['content']))")
+pp_reply=$(curl -s -X POST -H "$PH" $P/api/v1/statuses -d "status=@gtsuser@gts.test answering from PrivaPub&in_reply_to_id=$gts_edit_on_pp&visibility=public" | j "print(d['uri'])")
+until_true 20 '[ "$(on_gts "$pp_reply" | j "print(d[\"statuses\"][0][\"in_reply_to_id\"] == \"$gts_edit\")")" = "True" ]' && ok "alice's reply threads under gtsuser's post" || ko "outbound reply not threaded on GoToSocial"
+gcurl -s -o /dev/null -X PUT -H "$GH" $G/api/v1/statuses/$gts_edit -d 'status=GoToSocial after the edit'
+until_true 20 '[ "$(curl -s -H "$PH" "$P/api/v1/statuses/$gts_edit_on_pp/history" | j "print(len(d))")" = "2" ]' && ok "gtsuser's edit reaches PrivaPub with its history" || ko "GoToSocial's edit not applied"
+[ "$(curl -s -H "$PH" "$P/api/v1/statuses/$gts_edit_on_pp" | j "print(d['edited_at'] is not None)")" = "True" ] && ok "the edited post carries edited_at" || ko "no edited_at on the edited post"
+curl -s -o /dev/null -X POST -H "$PH" $P/api/v1/statuses/$gts_edit_on_pp/favourite
+curl -s -o /dev/null -X POST -H "$PH" $P/api/v1/statuses/$gts_edit_on_pp/reblog
+until_true 20 '[ "$(gcurl -s -H "$GH" "$G/api/v1/statuses/$gts_edit" | j "print(d[\"favourites_count\"], d[\"reblogs_count\"])")" = "1 1" ]' || true
+curl -s -o /dev/null -X POST -H "$PH" $P/api/v1/statuses/$gts_edit_on_pp/unfavourite
+curl -s -o /dev/null -X POST -H "$PH" $P/api/v1/statuses/$gts_edit_on_pp/unreblog
+until_true 20 '[ "$(gcurl -s -H "$GH" "$G/api/v1/statuses/$gts_edit" | j "print(d[\"favourites_count\"], d[\"reblogs_count\"])")" = "0 0" ]' && ok "alice's unlike and unboost reach GoToSocial" || ko "undo of like or boost not applied on GoToSocial"
+pp_undo=$(curl -s -X POST -H "$PH" $P/api/v1/statuses -d 'status=like me and take it back&visibility=public' | j "print(d['id'] + ' ' + d['uri'])")
+pp_undo_id=${pp_undo% *}; pp_undo_uri=${pp_undo#* }
+until_true 20 '[ -n "$(on_gts "$pp_undo_uri" | j "print(d[\"statuses\"][0][\"id\"])")" ]' || true
+pp_undo_on_gts=$(on_gts "$pp_undo_uri" | j "print(d['statuses'][0]['id'])")
+gcurl -s -o /dev/null -X POST -H "$GH" $G/api/v1/statuses/$pp_undo_on_gts/favourite
+gcurl -s -o /dev/null -X POST -H "$GH" $G/api/v1/statuses/$pp_undo_on_gts/reblog
+until_true 20 '[ "$(curl -s -H "$PH" "$P/api/v1/statuses/$pp_undo_id" | j "print(d[\"favourites_count\"], d[\"reblogs_count\"])")" = "1 1" ]' || true
+gcurl -s -o /dev/null -X POST -H "$GH" $G/api/v1/statuses/$pp_undo_on_gts/unfavourite
+gcurl -s -o /dev/null -X POST -H "$GH" $G/api/v1/statuses/$pp_undo_on_gts/unreblog
+until_true 20 '[ "$(curl -s -H "$PH" "$P/api/v1/statuses/$pp_undo_id" | j "print(d[\"favourites_count\"], d[\"reblogs_count\"])")" = "0 0" ]' && ok "gtsuser's unlike and unboost reach PrivaPub" || ko "GoToSocial's undo of like or boost not applied"
+
+echo "media"
+make_png "$work/red.png"
+pp_media=$(curl -s -X POST -H "$PH" "$P/api/v2/media" -F "file=@$work/red.png;type=image/png" -F 'description=a red square' | j "print(d['id'])")
+pp_media_uri=$(curl -s -X POST -H "$PH" $P/api/v1/statuses -d "status=a picture for GoToSocial&visibility=public&media_ids[]=$pp_media" | j "print(d['uri'])")
+until_true 20 '[ "$(on_gts "$pp_media_uri" | j "print(d[\"statuses\"][0][\"media_attachments\"][0][\"description\"])")" = "a red square" ]' && ok "an image with alt text reaches GoToSocial" || ko "image or alt text missing on GoToSocial"
+g_media=$(gcurl -s -X POST -H "$GH" "$G/api/v2/media" -F "file=@$work/red.png;type=image/png" -F 'description=a red square from GoToSocial' | j "print(d['id'])")
+gcurl -s -o /dev/null -X POST -H "$GH" $G/api/v1/statuses -d "status=a picture from GoToSocial&visibility=public&media_ids[]=$g_media"
+until_true 20 'curl -s -H "$PH" "$P/api/v1/timelines/home" | j "print(any(\"a picture from GoToSocial\" in s[\"content\"] and s[\"media_attachments\"] and \"/media/proxy/\" in s[\"media_attachments\"][0][\"url\"] and s[\"media_attachments\"][0][\"description\"]==\"a red square from GoToSocial\" for s in d))" | grep -q True' \
+	&& ok "an image with alt text from GoToSocial arrives through our proxy" || ko "GoToSocial's image missing, unproxied or without alt text"
+
+echo "communities"
+jwt=$(privapub_root)
+alice_id=$(curl -s -H "$PH" "$P/api/v1/accounts/verify_credentials" | j "print(d['id'])")
+community_name="community$(date +%s)"
+community=$(curl -s -X POST $P/clientapi/group/insert -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H "Authorization: Bearer $jwt" \
+	-d "{\"avatarId\":\"$alice_id\",\"userName\":\"$community_name\",\"name\":\"a community\",\"description\":\"for everyone\",\"isCommunity\":true}" | j "print(d['id'])")
+community_on_gts=$(gcurl -s -H "$GH" "$G/api/v2/search?q=@$community_name@privapub.test&resolve=true&type=accounts" | j "print(d['accounts'][0]['id'])")
+gcurl -s -o /dev/null -X POST -H "$GH" $G/api/v1/accounts/$community_on_gts/follow
+until_true 20 '[ "$(gcurl -s -H "$GH" "$G/api/v1/accounts/relationships?id[]=$community_on_gts" | j "print(d[0][\"following\"])")" = "True" ]' && ok "gtsuser follows a PrivaPub community" || ko "community follow not accepted"
+curl -s -o /dev/null -X POST $P/clientapi/post/insert -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H "Authorization: Bearer $jwt" \
+	-d "{\"avatarId\":\"$alice_id\",\"title\":\"A community thread\",\"text\":\"posted into the community\",\"groupId\":\"$community\"}"
+community_post=$(podman exec pasture-mongo mongosh --quiet PrivaPub --eval 'print(db.Post.findOne({Text:/posted into the community/}).ObjectURI)')
+until_true 20 '[ "$(on_gts "$community_post" | j "print(len(d[\"statuses\"]))")" = "1" ]' && ok "the community's announce brings its post to GoToSocial" || ko "community post missing on GoToSocial"
+
+echo "circles"
+circle_name="circle$(date +%s)"
+circle=$(curl -s -X POST $P/clientapi/group/insert -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H "Authorization: Bearer $jwt" \
+	-d "{\"avatarId\":\"$alice_id\",\"userName\":\"$circle_name\",\"name\":\"a circle\",\"description\":\"just us\",\"isCommunity\":false}" | j "print(d['id'])")
+circle_on_gts=$(gcurl -s -H "$GH" "$G/api/v2/search?q=@$circle_name@privapub.test&resolve=true&type=accounts" | j "print(d['accounts'][0]['id'])")
+gcurl -s -o /dev/null -X POST -H "$GH" $G/api/v1/accounts/$circle_on_gts/follow
+until_true 15 '[ "$(gcurl -s -H "$GH" "$G/api/v1/accounts/relationships?id[]=$circle_on_gts" | j "print(d[0][\"requested\"])")" = "True" ]' && ok "gtsuser's request to join a circle waits for its owner" || ko "joining the circle was not held for approval"
+requester=$(podman exec pasture-mongo mongosh --quiet PrivaPub --eval "print(db.Follower.findOne({LocalActorId:'$circle', IsAccepted:false}).ActorURI)")
+curl -s -o /dev/null -X POST $P/clientapi/group/approve -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H "Authorization: Bearer $jwt" \
+	-d "{\"avatarId\":\"$alice_id\",\"groupId\":\"$circle\",\"memberActorURI\":\"$requester\"}"
+until_true 20 '[ "$(gcurl -s -H "$GH" "$G/api/v1/accounts/relationships?id[]=$circle_on_gts" | j "print(d[0][\"following\"])")" = "True" ]' && ok "the owner's approval makes gtsuser a circle member" || ko "circle approval did not reach GoToSocial"
+curl -s -o /dev/null -X POST $P/clientapi/post/insert -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H "Authorization: Bearer $jwt" \
+	-d "{\"avatarId\":\"$alice_id\",\"text\":\"only the circle on GoToSocial sees this\",\"groupId\":\"$circle\"}"
+circle_uri=$(podman exec pasture-mongo mongosh --quiet PrivaPub --eval 'print(db.Post.findOne({Text:/only the circle on GoToSocial/}).ObjectURI)')
+# GoToSocial files a post for neither the public nor the author's followers as a direct message (as it does our DMs),
+# shown only to the accounts it mentions; so each member's copy names and silently mentions that member. Like a DM it
+# is then in gtsuser's conversations, never in a search by URI.
+until_true 15 'gcurl -s -H "$GH" "$G/api/v1/conversations" | grep -q "only the circle on GoToSocial sees this"' \
+	&& ok "a circle post, naming its member, reaches its GoToSocial member" || ko "circle post missing on GoToSocial" 
+unserved "$circle_uri" && ok "the circle post is not served unsigned" || ko "circle post served unsigned"
+
+echo "locked personas"
+LT=$(privapub_token locked_alice); LH="Authorization: Bearer $LT"
+curl -s -o /dev/null -X PATCH -H "$LH" "$P/api/v1/accounts/update_credentials" -d 'locked=true'
+locked_on_gts=$(gcurl -s -H "$GH" "$G/api/v2/search?q=@locked_alice@privapub.test&resolve=true&type=accounts" | j "print(d['accounts'][0]['id'])")
+gcurl -s -o /dev/null -X POST -H "$GH" $G/api/v1/accounts/$locked_on_gts/follow
+until_true 20 '[ "$(curl -s -H "$LH" "$P/api/v1/follow_requests" | j "print(len(d))")" = "1" ]' && ok "gtsuser's follow waits on a locked persona" || ko "no follow request on the locked persona"
+[ "$(gcurl -s -H "$GH" "$G/api/v1/accounts/relationships?id[]=$locked_on_gts" | j "print(d[0][\"requested\"])")" = "True" ] && ok "GoToSocial shows the follow as requested" || ko "GoToSocial does not show the request"
+requester=$(curl -s -H "$LH" "$P/api/v1/follow_requests" | j "print(d[0]['id'])")
+curl -s -o /dev/null -X POST -H "$LH" "$P/api/v1/follow_requests/$requester/reject"
+until_true 20 '[ "$(gcurl -s -H "$GH" "$G/api/v1/accounts/relationships?id[]=$locked_on_gts" | j "print(d[0][\"requested\"] or d[0][\"following\"])")" = "False" ]' && ok "a rejected request is withdrawn on GoToSocial" || ko "rejection not applied on GoToSocial"
+gcurl -s -o /dev/null -X POST -H "$GH" $G/api/v1/accounts/$locked_on_gts/follow
+until_true 20 '[ "$(curl -s -H "$LH" "$P/api/v1/follow_requests" | j "print(len(d))")" = "1" ]' || true
+requester=$(curl -s -H "$LH" "$P/api/v1/follow_requests" | j "print(d[0]['id'])")
+curl -s -o /dev/null -X POST -H "$LH" "$P/api/v1/follow_requests/$requester/authorize"
+until_true 20 '[ "$(gcurl -s -H "$GH" "$G/api/v1/accounts/relationships?id[]=$locked_on_gts" | j "print(d[0][\"following\"])")" = "True" ]' && ok "an authorized request makes gtsuser a follower" || ko "authorization not applied on GoToSocial"
+
+echo "smoke"
+"$here/../smoke/mastodon-api.sh" "$P" "$PT" >/dev/null 2>&1 && ok "the deploy's Mastodon smoke check passes, signed in" || ko "the Mastodon smoke check fails"
+
 echo "unfollow"
 curl -s -o /dev/null -X POST -H "$PH" $P/api/v1/accounts/$gts_on_pp/unfollow
 until_true 20 '[ "$(gcurl -s -H "$GH" "$G/api/v1/accounts/relationships?id[]=$alice_on_gts" | j "print(d[0][\"followed_by\"])")" = "False" ]' && ok "alice's unfollow reaches GoToSocial" || ko "unfollow not applied"
@@ -0,0 +1,114 @@
+# Lemmy 1.0: communities both ways (FEP-1b12), threads with titles, comments both ways, votes up and down both ways,
+# private messages both ways, a moderator's removal (P7), statistics. Lemmy is driven through its v4 API.
+LM=https://lemmy.test:6443
+LT=$(cat "$here/.state/lemmy.token" 2>/dev/null)
+# lm <method> <path> [json]: a Lemmy v4 API call as lemmyuser
+lm() {
+	local method=$1 path=$2 body=${3:-}
+	if [ -n "$body" ]; then
+		site lemmy.test -s -X "$method" "$LM/api/v4/$path" -H "Authorization: Bearer $LT" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d "$body"
+	else
+		site lemmy.test -s -X "$method" "$LM/api/v4/$path" -H "Authorization: Bearer $LT"
+	fi
+}
+# the posts Lemmy holds in a community, and the one whose ap_id is given
+lm_posts() { lm GET "post/list?community_id=$1&sort=new&limit=50" | j "print(json.dumps([p['post'] for p in (d.get('items') or d.get('posts') or [])]))"; }
+# 1 once Lemmy runs a send worker for privapub.test
+lm_worker() { podman exec pasture-postgres psql -U pasture -d lemmy -tAc "select count(*) from federation_queue_state q join instance i on i.id=q.instance_id where i.domain='privapub.test'"; }
+lm_post_by_ap() { lm_posts "$1" | j "print(json.dumps(next((p for p in d if p['ap_id']=='$2'), None)))"; }
+
+echo "lemmy"
+[ -n "$LT" ] && ok "Lemmy token for lemmyuser" || { ko "Lemmy token"; return 1; }
+LAT=$(privapub_token alice_lemmy)
+LAH="Authorization: Bearer $LAT"
+[ -n "$LAT" ] && ok "PrivaPub token for alice_lemmy" || { ko "PrivaPub token for alice_lemmy"; return 1; }
+jwt=$(privapub_root)
+alice_id=$(curl -s -H "$LAH" "$P/api/v1/accounts/verify_credentials" | j "print(d['id'])")
+dogs="dogs$(date +%s)"
+cats="cats$(date +%s)"
+
+echo "  communities"
+dogs_gid=$(curl -s -X POST $P/clientapi/group/insert -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H "Authorization: Bearer $jwt" \
+	-d "{\"avatarId\":\"$alice_id\",\"userName\":\"$dogs\",\"name\":\"Pasture dogs\",\"description\":\"a PrivaPub community\",\"isCommunity\":true}" | j "print(d['id'])")
+dogs_on_lm=$(lm GET "resolve_object?q=!$dogs@privapub.test" | j "print(d['community']['id'])")
+[ -n "$dogs_on_lm" ] && ok "Lemmy resolves a PrivaPub community" || ko "Lemmy cannot resolve the PrivaPub community"
+# Lemmy 1.0 starts its send worker for a newly seen server at the newest activity and never sends anything queued for
+# that server before then, so on a clean pasture the first follow waits for the worker (up to a minute)
+until_true 45 '[ "$(lm_worker)" = "1" ]' || true
+lm POST community/follow "{\"community_id\":$dogs_on_lm,\"follow\":true}" >/dev/null
+until_true 30 '[ "$(lm GET "community?id=$dogs_on_lm" | j "print(((d[\"community_view\"].get(\"community_actions\") or {}).get(\"follow_state\") or \"\").lower())")" = "accepted" ]' \
+	&& ok "lemmyuser follows the PrivaPub community (Accept arrived)" || ko "Lemmy's community follow not accepted"
+cats_on_lm=$(lm POST community "{\"name\":\"$cats\",\"title\":\"Pasture cats\"}" | j "print(d['community_view']['community']['id'])")
+cats_on_p=$(curl -s -H "$LAH" "$P/api/v2/search?q=@$cats@lemmy.test&resolve=true&type=accounts" | j "print(d['accounts'][0]['id'])")
+[ -n "$cats_on_p" ] && ok "PrivaPub resolves a Lemmy community" || ko "PrivaPub cannot resolve the Lemmy community"
+curl -s -o /dev/null -X POST -H "$LAH" "$P/api/v1/accounts/$cats_on_p/follow"
+until_true 30 '[ "$(curl -s -H "$LAH" "$P/api/v1/accounts/relationships?id[]=$cats_on_p" | j "print(d[0][\"following\"])")" = "True" ]' && ok "alice follows the Lemmy community (Accept arrived)" || ko "PrivaPub's community follow not accepted"
+
+echo "  threads"
+lm_thread=$(lm POST post "{\"name\":\"A Lemmy thread\",\"body\":\"posted from Lemmy into PrivaPub\",\"community_id\":$dogs_on_lm}" | j "print(d['post_view']['post']['ap_id'])")
+dogs_on_p=$(curl -s -H "$LAH" "$P/api/v1/accounts/lookup?acct=$dogs" | j "print(d['id'])")
+until_true 30 '[ "$(curl -s -H "$LAH" "$P/api/v1/accounts/$dogs_on_p/statuses" | j "print(any(s[\"uri\"]==\"$lm_thread\" and (s.get(\"privapub\") or {}).get(\"title\")==\"A Lemmy thread\" for s in d))")" = "True" ]' \
+	&& ok "a Lemmy thread in the PrivaPub community arrives with its title" || ko "Lemmy's thread missing or untitled on PrivaPub"
+curl -s -o /dev/null -X POST $P/clientapi/post/insert -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H "Authorization: Bearer $jwt" \
+	-d "{\"avatarId\":\"$alice_id\",\"title\":\"A PrivaPub community thread\",\"text\":\"posted into our own community\",\"groupId\":\"$dogs_gid\"}"
+dogs_post=$(podman exec pasture-mongo mongosh --quiet PrivaPub --eval 'print(db.Post.findOne({Text:/posted into our own community/}, {}, {sort:{_id:-1}}).ObjectURI)')
+until_true 30 '[ "$(lm_post_by_ap "$dogs_on_lm" "$dogs_post" | j "print(d and d[\"name\"])")" = "A PrivaPub community thread" ]' \
+	&& ok "a titled post in the PrivaPub community reaches Lemmy through its announce" || ko "PrivaPub community post missing on Lemmy"
+# Lemmy 1.0 holds its user's thread in a remote community as pending until the community announces it back, and clears
+# the flag even though it then answers that Announce 400 ("Object is not remote"): the echo is what publishes it.
+until_true 30 '[ "$(lm_post_by_ap "$dogs_on_lm" "$lm_thread" | j "print(d and d[\"federation_pending\"])")" = "False" ]' \
+	&& ok "the PrivaPub community's announce back publishes Lemmy's thread there" || ko "Lemmy's thread stays federation_pending"
+lm_cats_thread=$(lm POST post "{\"name\":\"Cats only\",\"body\":\"a Lemmy community post\",\"community_id\":$cats_on_lm}" | j "print(d['post_view']['post']['ap_id'])")
+until_true 30 'curl -s -H "$LAH" "$P/api/v1/timelines/home" | j "print(any(s[\"uri\"]==\"$lm_cats_thread\" or (s.get(\"reblog\") or {}).get(\"uri\")==\"$lm_cats_thread\" for s in d))" | grep -q True' \
+	&& ok "the Lemmy community's announce brings its thread to alice's home" || ko "Lemmy community thread missing from alice's home"
+p_thread=$(curl -s -X POST -H "$LAH" $P/api/v1/statuses --data-urlencode "status=A PrivaPub thread
+@$cats@lemmy.test posted from PrivaPub" -d 'visibility=public')
+p_thread_id=$(echo "$p_thread" | j "print(d['id'])"); p_thread_uri=$(echo "$p_thread" | j "print(d['uri'])")
+until_true 30 '[ "$(lm_post_by_ap "$cats_on_lm" "$p_thread_uri")" != "null" ]' && ok "alice's thread lands in the Lemmy community" || ko "PrivaPub thread missing from the Lemmy community"
+p_thread_on_lm=$(lm_post_by_ap "$cats_on_lm" "$p_thread_uri" | j "print(d['id'])")
+
+echo "  comments"
+lm POST comment "{\"post_id\":$p_thread_on_lm,\"content\":\"a Lemmy comment on PrivaPub\"}" >/dev/null
+until_true 30 '[ "$(curl -s -H "$LAH" "$P/api/v1/statuses/$p_thread_id/context" | j "print(any(\"a Lemmy comment on PrivaPub\" in s[\"content\"] for s in d[\"descendants\"]))")" = "True" ]' \
+	&& ok "Lemmy's comment threads under alice's post" || ko "Lemmy's comment missing on PrivaPub"
+lm_cats_on_p=$(curl -s -H "$LAH" "$P/api/v1/timelines/home" | j "print(next((s.get('reblog') or s)['id'] for s in d if (s.get('reblog') or s)['uri']=='$lm_cats_thread'))")
+curl -s -o /dev/null -X POST -H "$LAH" $P/api/v1/statuses -d "status=a PrivaPub comment on Lemmy&in_reply_to_id=$lm_cats_on_p&visibility=public"
+lm_cats_id=$(lm GET "resolve_object?q=$lm_cats_thread" | j "print(d['post']['id'])")
+until_true 30 '[ "$(lm GET "comment/list?post_id=$lm_cats_id" | j "print(any(\"a PrivaPub comment on Lemmy\" in c[\"comment\"][\"content\"] for c in (d.get(\"items\") or d.get(\"comments\") or [])))")" = "True" ]' \
+	&& ok "alice's reply becomes a comment on Lemmy" || ko "PrivaPub reply missing as a Lemmy comment"
+
+echo "  votes"
+# Lemmy sends a vote only to the community, which relays it inside an Announce: P7 trusts those for the community's own posts.
+lm POST post/like "{\"post_id\":$p_thread_on_lm,\"is_upvote\":true}" >/dev/null
+if until_true 15 '[ "$(curl -s -H "$LAH" "$P/api/v1/statuses/$p_thread_id" | j "print(d[\"favourites_count\"])")" = "1" ]'; then
+	ok "Lemmy's upvote counts as a like on PrivaPub"
+else
+	xf "Lemmy's upvote counts as a like on PrivaPub (votes relayed by a community are P7)"
+fi
+lm POST post/like "{\"post_id\":$p_thread_on_lm,\"is_upvote\":false}" >/dev/null
+if until_true 15 '[ "$(curl -s -H "$LAH" "$P/api/v1/statuses/$p_thread_id" | j "print(d[\"favourites_count\"], ((d.get(\"privapub\") or {}).get(\"votes\") or {}).get(\"down\"))")" = "0 1" ]'; then
+	ok "Lemmy's change to a downvote reaches PrivaPub"
+else
+	xf "Lemmy's change to a downvote reaches PrivaPub (votes relayed by a community are P7)"
+fi
+curl -s -o /dev/null -X POST -H "$LAH" "$P/api/v1/statuses/$lm_cats_on_p/favourite"
+until_true 30 '[ "$(lm GET "post?id=$lm_cats_id" | j "print(d[\"post_view\"][\"post\"].get(\"upvotes\"))")" = "2" ]' && ok "alice's like is an upvote on Lemmy" || ko "like not counted as an upvote on Lemmy"
+
+echo "  private messages"
+alice_on_lm=$(lm GET "resolve_object?q=@alice_lemmy@privapub.test" | j "print(d['person']['id'])")
+lm POST private_message "{\"content\":\"a secret from Lemmy\",\"recipient_id\":$alice_on_lm}" >/dev/null
+until_true 30 'curl -s -H "$LAH" "$P/api/v1/conversations" | grep -q "a secret from Lemmy"' && ok "Lemmy's private message arrives as a DM" || ko "Lemmy's private message missing on PrivaPub"
+curl -s -o /dev/null -X POST -H "$LAH" $P/api/v1/statuses -d 'status=@lemmyuser@lemmy.test a secret from PrivaPub&visibility=direct'
+until_true 30 'lm GET "account/notification/list?limit=50" | grep -q "a secret from PrivaPub"' && ok "alice's DM arrives as a Lemmy private message" || ko "DM missing on Lemmy"
+
+echo "  moderation"
+lm POST post/remove "{\"post_id\":$lm_cats_id,\"removed\":true,\"reason\":\"pasture\"}" >/dev/null
+sleep 10
+if curl -s -H "$LAH" "$P/api/v1/timelines/home" | j "print(any((s.get('reblog') or s)['uri']=='$lm_cats_thread' for s in d))" | grep -q False; then
+	ok "a moderator's removal reaches PrivaPub"
+else
+	xf "a moderator's removal reaches PrivaPub (the Lemmy moderation set is P7)"
+fi
+
+echo "  statistics"
+stats_check lemmy.test lemmy
@@ -39,7 +39,10 @@ cw_uri=$(curl -s -X POST -H "$AH" $P/api/v1/statuses -d 'status=behind a warning
 until_true 30 '[ "$(m_status_by_uri "$alice_on_m" "$cw_uri" | j "print(d and d[\"spoiler_text\"]==\"spoilers\" and d[\"sensitive\"])")" = "True" ]' && ok "a content warning survives to Mastodon" || ko "content warning lost on Mastodon"
 fo_uri=$(curl -s -X POST -H "$AH" $P/api/v1/statuses -d 'status=only for followers&visibility=private' | j "print(d['uri'])")
 until_true 30 '[ "$(m_status_by_uri "$alice_on_m" "$fo_uri" | j "print(d and d[\"visibility\"])")" = "private" ]' && ok "a followers-only post reaches Mastodon as private" || ko "followers-only post missing or widened on Mastodon"
-[ "$(pfetch -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' -H 'Accept: application/activity+json' "$fo_uri")" = "404" ] && ok "the followers-only post is not served unsigned" || ko "followers-only post served unsigned"
+unserved "$fo_uri" && ok "the followers-only post is not served unsigned" || ko "followers-only post served unsigned"
+# Mastodon deletes its copy when a refetch answers 404, so a signed refetch from a follower's server is answered
+fo_refetch=$(podman exec pasture-mastodon bin/rails runner "s = ActivityPub::FetchRemoteStatusService.new.call('$fo_uri'); puts(s.present? ? s.visibility : 'lost')" 2>/dev/null | tail -1)
+[ "$fo_refetch" = "private" ] && ok "Mastodon's signed refetch of the followers-only post keeps it private" || ko "Mastodon's refetch of the followers-only post: $fo_refetch"

 echo "  replies"
 mcurl -o /dev/null -X POST -H "$MH" "$M/api/v1/statuses" -d "status=@alice_masto@privapub.test replying from Mastodon&in_reply_to_id=$a_post_on_m&visibility=public"
@@ -93,12 +96,7 @@ m_quote=$(mcurl -X POST -H "$MH" "$M/api/v1/statuses" -d "status=quoting PrivaPu
 until_true 30 '[ "$(mcurl -H "$MH" "$M/api/v1/statuses/$m_quote" | j "print((d.get(\"quote\") or {}).get(\"state\"))")" = "accepted" ]' && ok "PrivaPub approves mastouser's quote (FEP-044f)" || ko "quote of a PrivaPub post not approved on Mastodon"

 echo "  media"
-python3 -c "
-import struct,zlib
-w=h=8
-raw=b''.join(b'\x00'+bytes([200,60,60])*w for _ in range(h))
-png=b'\x89PNG\r\n\x1a\n'+b''.join(struct.pack('>I',len(c))+t+c+struct.pack('>I',zlib.crc32(t+c)&0xffffffff) for t,c in [(b'IHDR',struct.pack('>IIBBBBB',w,h,8,2,0,0,0)),(b'IDAT',zlib.compress(raw)),(b'IEND',b'')])
-open('$work/red.png','wb').write(png)"
+make_png "$work/red.png"
 a_media=$(curl -s -X POST -H "$AH" "$P/api/v2/media" -F "file=@$work/red.png;type=image/png" -F 'description=a red square' | j "print(d['id'])")
 a_media_uri=$(curl -s -X POST -H "$AH" $P/api/v1/statuses -d "status=a picture&visibility=public&media_ids[]=$a_media" | j "print(d['uri'])")
 until_true 30 '[ "$(m_status_by_uri "$alice_on_m" "$a_media_uri" | j "print(d[\"media_attachments\"][0][\"description\"])")" = "a red square" ]' && ok "an image with alt text reaches Mastodon" || ko "image or alt text missing on Mastodon"
@@ -117,7 +115,7 @@ cw_on_m=$(m_status_by_uri "$alice_on_m" "$cw_uri" | j "print(d['id'])")
 cw_id=$(curl -s -H "$AH" "$P/api/v1/accounts/$a_poll_id/statuses" | j "print(next(s['id'] for s in d if s['uri']=='$cw_uri'))")
 curl -s -o /dev/null -X DELETE -H "$AH" "$P/api/v1/statuses/$cw_id"
 until_true 30 '[ "$(mcurl -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" -H "$MH" "$M/api/v1/statuses/$cw_on_m")" = "404" ]' && ok "alice_masto's delete reaches Mastodon" || ko "delete not applied on Mastodon"
-[ "$(pfetch -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' -H 'Accept: application/activity+json' "$cw_uri")" = "410" ] && ok "the deleted post answers 410" || ko "deleted post does not answer 410"
+gone_unsigned "$cw_uri" && ok "the deleted post answers 410" || ko "deleted post does not answer 410"
 mcurl -o /dev/null -X DELETE -H "$MH" "$M/api/v1/statuses/$m_poll"
 until_true 30 '! curl -s -H "$AH" "$P/api/v1/timelines/home" | grep -q "Mastodon asks"' && ok "mastouser's delete reaches PrivaPub" || ko "Mastodon's delete not applied on PrivaPub"

@@ -149,20 +147,19 @@ circle_post=$(curl -s -X POST $P/clientapi/post/insert -H 'Content-Type: applica
 	-d "{\"avatarId\":\"$alice_id\",\"text\":\"only the circle sees this\",\"groupId\":\"$circle\"}")
 circle_uri=$(podman exec pasture-mongo mongosh --quiet PrivaPub --eval 'print(db.Post.findOne({Text:/only the circle sees this/},{ObjectURI:1}).ObjectURI)')
 # Mastodon 4.7 learns whose personal inbox a delivery reached only from /users/<name>/inbox, never from the numeric
-# /ap/users/<id>/inbox it now advertises, and keeps a post naming no local account only for that recipient
-# (InboxesController#account_required?, Create#addresses_local_accounts?). A circle post names only the circle.
+# /ap/users/<id>/inbox it now advertises, and keeps a post naming no local account of its own only for that recipient
+# (InboxesController#account_required?, Create#addresses_local_accounts?). So each member's copy names that member.
 m_stored() { podman exec pasture-mastodon bin/rails runner "puts Status.exists?(uri: '$1')" 2>/dev/null | tail -1; }
-if until_true 15 '[ "$(m_stored "$circle_uri")" = "true" ]'; then
-	ok "a circle post reaches its Mastodon member"
-else
-	xf "a circle post reaches its Mastodon member (Mastodon 4.7 loses the recipient of numeric-inbox deliveries; owner decision pending)"
-fi
+until_true 15 '[ "$(m_stored "$circle_uri")" = "true" ]' && ok "a circle post, naming its member, reaches its Mastodon member" || ko "circle post missing on Mastodon"
+# a signed refetch, as Mastodon does it, is answered for a member's server and names the member, so the copy stays
+refetched=$(podman exec pasture-mastodon bin/rails runner "s = ActivityPub::FetchRemoteStatusService.new.call('$circle_uri'); puts(s.present? ? 'kept' : 'lost')" 2>/dev/null | tail -1)
+[ "$refetched" = "kept" ] && ok "Mastodon's signed refetch of the circle post keeps it" || ko "Mastodon's refetch of the circle post failed ($refetched)" 
 mastodon_user outsider
 OT=$(mastodon_token outsider)
 alice_on_m_o=$(mcurl -H "Authorization: Bearer $OT" "$M/api/v2/search?q=@alice_masto@privapub.test&resolve=true&type=accounts" | j "print(d['accounts'][0]['id'])")
 [ "$(mcurl -H "Authorization: Bearer $OT" "$M/api/v1/accounts/$alice_on_m_o/statuses?limit=40" | j "print(any(s['uri']=='$circle_uri' for s in d))")" = "False" ] \
 	&& ok "another Mastodon user does not see the circle post" || ko "the circle post leaked to a non-member"
-[ "$(pfetch -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' -H 'Accept: application/activity+json' "$circle_uri")" = "404" ] && ok "the circle post is not served unsigned" || ko "circle post served unsigned"
+unserved "$circle_uri" && ok "the circle post is not served unsigned" || ko "circle post served unsigned"

 echo "  reports"
 curl -s -o /dev/null -X POST -H "$AH" "$P/api/v1/reports" -d "account_id=$masto_on_p&comment=pasture-report-$circle_name&forward=true"
@@ -0,0 +1,124 @@
+# Misskey 2026.10 (or Sharkey, with MISSKEY_NAME=sharkey): discovery, follows, posts and CW, replies both ways, Misskey
+# reactions both ways, legacy quotes both ways, MFM source, polls, specified notes, media, deletes, blocks, statistics.
+# A delivery is never checked with ap/show, which would fetch it from us; only with what Misskey already holds.
+MK_NAME=${MISSKEY_NAME:-misskey}
+MKH="$MK_NAME.test"
+MK="https://$MKH:6443"
+MKT=$(cat "$here/.state/$MK_NAME.token" 2>/dev/null)
+# mk <endpoint> [json]: a Misskey API call as mkuser
+mk() {
+	local body=${2:-'{}'}
+	site "$MKH" -s -X POST "$MK/api/$1" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
+		-d "$(python3 -c "import sys,json; d=json.loads(sys.argv[1]); d['i']=sys.argv[2]; print(json.dumps(d))" "$body" "$MKT")"
+}
+# the notes Misskey holds of an account, and the one whose uri is given
+mk_notes() { mk users/notes "{\"userId\":\"$1\",\"limit\":50,\"withReplies\":true,\"withRenotes\":true}"; }
+# users/relation answers a list even for one user
+mk_relation() { mk users/relation "{\"userId\":\"$1\"}" | j "r=d[0] if isinstance(d,list) else d; print(r['$2'])"; }
+mk_note_by_uri() { mk_notes "$1" | j "print(json.dumps(next((n for n in d if n.get('uri')=='$2'), None)))"; }
+
+echo "$MK_NAME"
+[ -n "$MKT" ] && ok "$MK_NAME token for mkuser" || { ko "$MK_NAME token"; return 1; }
+KT=$(privapub_token "alice_$MK_NAME")
+KH="Authorization: Bearer $KT"
+[ -n "$KT" ] && ok "PrivaPub token for alice_$MK_NAME" || { ko "PrivaPub token for alice_$MK_NAME"; return 1; }
+
+echo "  discovery"
+alice_on_mk=$(mk users/show "{\"username\":\"alice_$MK_NAME\",\"host\":\"privapub.test\"}" | j "print(d['id'])")
+[ -n "$alice_on_mk" ] && ok "$MK_NAME resolves @alice_$MK_NAME@privapub.test" || ko "$MK_NAME cannot resolve alice"
+mk_on_p=$(curl -s -H "$KH" "$P/api/v2/search?q=mkuser@$MKH&resolve=true&type=accounts" | j "print(d['accounts'][0]['id'])")
+[ -n "$mk_on_p" ] && ok "PrivaPub resolves @mkuser@$MKH" || ko "PrivaPub cannot resolve mkuser"
+
+echo "  follows"
+mk following/create "{\"userId\":\"$alice_on_mk\"}" >/dev/null
+until_true 30 '[ "$(mk_relation "$alice_on_mk" isFollowing)" = "True" ]' && ok "mkuser follows alice (Accept arrived)" || ko "$MK_NAME's follow not accepted"
+curl -s -o /dev/null -X POST -H "$KH" "$P/api/v1/accounts/$mk_on_p/follow"
+until_true 30 '[ "$(curl -s -H "$KH" "$P/api/v1/accounts/relationships?id[]=$mk_on_p" | j "print(d[0][\"following\"])")" = "True" ]' && ok "alice follows mkuser (Accept arrived)" || ko "PrivaPub's follow not accepted"
+
+echo "  posts"
+k_post=$(curl -s -X POST -H "$KH" $P/api/v1/statuses -d "status=Hello $MK_NAME from PrivaPub&visibility=public")
+k_post_id=$(echo "$k_post" | j "print(d['id'])"); k_post_uri=$(echo "$k_post" | j "print(d['uri'])")
+until_true 30 '[ "$(mk_note_by_uri "$alice_on_mk" "$k_post_uri")" != "null" ]' && ok "alice's post reaches $MK_NAME" || ko "post missing on $MK_NAME"
+k_post_on_mk=$(mk_note_by_uri "$alice_on_mk" "$k_post_uri" | j "print(d['id'])")
+mk_post=$(mk notes/create "{\"text\":\"Hello PrivaPub from $MK_NAME, \$[x2 big] words\",\"visibility\":\"public\"}" | j "print(d['createdNote']['id'])")
+until_true 30 'curl -s -H "$KH" "$P/api/v1/timelines/home" | grep -q "Hello PrivaPub from $MK_NAME"' && ok "mkuser's post reaches alice's home" || ko "$MK_NAME's post missing on PrivaPub"
+mk_post_on_p=$(curl -s -H "$KH" "$P/api/v1/timelines/home" | j "print(next(s['id'] for s in d if 'Hello PrivaPub from $MK_NAME' in s['content']))")
+[ "$(curl -s -H "$KH" "$P/api/v1/statuses/$mk_post_on_p" | j "print('\$[x2' in ((d.get('privapub') or {}).get('source') or {}).get('content',''))")" = "True" ] \
+	&& ok "the MFM source is kept" || ko "MFM source lost"
+cw_uri=$(curl -s -X POST -H "$KH" $P/api/v1/statuses -d 'status=behind a warning&spoiler_text=spoilers&visibility=public' | j "print(d['uri'])")
+until_true 30 '[ "$(mk_note_by_uri "$alice_on_mk" "$cw_uri" | j "print(d and d[\"cw\"])")" = "spoilers" ]' && ok "a content warning survives to $MK_NAME" || ko "content warning lost on $MK_NAME"
+
+echo "  replies"
+mk notes/create "{\"text\":\"@alice_$MK_NAME@privapub.test replying from $MK_NAME\",\"replyId\":\"$k_post_on_mk\",\"visibility\":\"public\"}" >/dev/null
+until_true 30 'curl -s -H "$KH" "$P/api/v1/notifications" | j "print(any(n[\"type\"]==\"mention\" for n in d))" | grep -q True' && ok "mkuser's reply notifies alice" || ko "reply did not notify"
+until_true 15 '[ "$(curl -s -H "$KH" "$P/api/v1/statuses/$k_post_id/context" | j "print(len(d[\"descendants\"]))")" -ge 1 ]' && ok "the reply threads under alice's post" || ko "reply not threaded on PrivaPub"
+k_reply_uri=$(curl -s -X POST -H "$KH" $P/api/v1/statuses -d "status=@mkuser@$MKH replying from PrivaPub&in_reply_to_id=$mk_post_on_p&visibility=public" | j "print(d['uri'])")
+until_true 30 '[ "$(mk_note_by_uri "$alice_on_mk" "$k_reply_uri" | j "print(d and d[\"replyId\"])")" = "$mk_post" ]' && ok "alice's reply threads under mkuser's note" || ko "outbound reply not threaded on $MK_NAME"
+
+echo "  reactions"
+mk notes/reactions/create "{\"noteId\":\"$k_post_on_mk\",\"reaction\":\"👍\"}" >/dev/null
+until_true 30 'curl -s -H "$KH" "$P/api/v1/pleroma/statuses/$k_post_id/reactions" | j "print(any(r[\"name\"]==\"👍\" and r[\"count\"]==1 for r in d))" | grep -q True' && ok "mkuser's 👍 reaction reaches PrivaPub" || ko "reaction missing on PrivaPub"
+mk notes/reactions/delete "{\"noteId\":\"$k_post_on_mk\"}" >/dev/null
+until_true 30 '[ "$(curl -s -H "$KH" "$P/api/v1/pleroma/statuses/$k_post_id/reactions" | j "print(len(d))")" = "0" ]' && ok "mkuser's withdrawn reaction leaves PrivaPub" || ko "reaction not withdrawn on PrivaPub"
+curl -s -o /dev/null -X PUT -H "$KH" "$P/api/v1/pleroma/statuses/$mk_post_on_p/reactions/%F0%9F%8E%89"
+until_true 30 '[ "$(mk notes/show "{\"noteId\":\"$mk_post\"}" | j "print(d[\"reactions\"].get(\"🎉\", 0))")" = "1" ]' && ok "alice's 🎉 reaction reaches $MK_NAME" || ko "reaction missing on $MK_NAME"
+# Misskey keeps one reaction per user and note, so the like goes to a note of its own
+mk_liked=$(mk notes/create "{\"text\":\"like this one, PrivaPub\",\"visibility\":\"public\"}" | j "print(d['createdNote']['id'])")
+until_true 30 'curl -s -H "$KH" "$P/api/v1/timelines/home" | grep -q "like this one, PrivaPub"' || true
+mk_liked_on_p=$(curl -s -H "$KH" "$P/api/v1/timelines/home" | j "print(next(s['id'] for s in d if 'like this one, PrivaPub' in s['content']))")
+curl -s -o /dev/null -X POST -H "$KH" "$P/api/v1/statuses/$mk_liked_on_p/favourite"
+until_true 30 '[ "$(mk notes/show "{\"noteId\":\"$mk_liked\"}" | j "print(sum(d[\"reactions\"].values()))")" = "1" ]' && ok "alice's like counts as a reaction on $MK_NAME" || ko "like not counted on $MK_NAME"
+
+echo "  quotes"
+mk_quote=$(mk notes/create "{\"text\":\"quoting PrivaPub\",\"renoteId\":\"$k_post_on_mk\",\"visibility\":\"public\"}" | j "print(d['createdNote']['id'])")
+until_true 30 'curl -s -H "$KH" "$P/api/v1/timelines/home" | j "print(any(\"quoting PrivaPub\" in s[\"content\"] and (s.get(\"quote\") or {}).get(\"state\")==\"accepted\" for s in d))" | grep -q True' \
+	&& ok "mkuser's quote arrives as an accepted quote" || ko "$MK_NAME's quote not understood"
+k_quote_uri=$(curl -s -X POST -H "$KH" $P/api/v1/statuses -d "status=quoting $MK_NAME&visibility=public&quoted_status_id=$mk_post_on_p" | j "print(d['uri'])")
+until_true 30 '[ "$(mk_note_by_uri "$alice_on_mk" "$k_quote_uri" | j "print(d and d[\"renoteId\"])")" = "$mk_post" ]' && ok "alice's quote is a quote on $MK_NAME" || ko "quote not understood by $MK_NAME"
+
+echo "  polls"
+k_poll_uri=$(curl -s -X POST -H "$KH" $P/api/v1/statuses -d 'status=cats or dogs&visibility=public&poll[options][]=cats&poll[options][]=dogs&poll[expires_in]=3600' | j "print(d['uri'])")
+until_true 30 '[ "$(mk_note_by_uri "$alice_on_mk" "$k_poll_uri" | j "print(len(d[\"poll\"][\"choices\"]))")" = "2" ]' && ok "alice's poll reaches $MK_NAME as a poll" || ko "poll missing on $MK_NAME"
+k_poll_on_mk=$(mk_note_by_uri "$alice_on_mk" "$k_poll_uri" | j "print(d['id'])")
+mk notes/polls/vote "{\"noteId\":\"$k_poll_on_mk\",\"choice\":1}" >/dev/null
+alice_self=$(curl -s -H "$KH" "$P/api/v1/accounts/verify_credentials" | j "print(d['id'])")
+until_true 30 '[ "$(curl -s -H "$KH" "$P/api/v1/accounts/$alice_self/statuses" | j "print(next(s[\"poll\"][\"options\"][1][\"votes_count\"] for s in d if s[\"uri\"]==\"$k_poll_uri\"))")" = "1" ]' && ok "mkuser's vote counts on PrivaPub" || ko "vote not counted on PrivaPub"
+mk_poll=$(mk notes/create "{\"text\":\"tea or coffee, $MK_NAME asks\",\"visibility\":\"public\",\"poll\":{\"choices\":[\"tea\",\"coffee\"],\"expiredAfter\":3600000}}" | j "print(d['createdNote']['id'])")
+until_true 30 'curl -s -H "$KH" "$P/api/v1/timelines/home" | j "print(any(s[\"poll\"] and \"$MK_NAME asks\" in s[\"content\"] for s in d))" | grep -q True' && ok "mkuser's poll reaches PrivaPub as a poll" || ko "poll missing on PrivaPub"
+mk_poll_on_p=$(curl -s -H "$KH" "$P/api/v1/timelines/home" | j "print(next(s['poll']['id'] for s in d if s['poll'] and '$MK_NAME asks' in s['content']))")
+curl -s -o /dev/null -X POST -H "$KH" "$P/api/v1/polls/$mk_poll_on_p/votes" -d 'choices[]=0'
+until_true 30 '[ "$(mk notes/show "{\"noteId\":\"$mk_poll\"}" | j "print(d[\"poll\"][\"choices\"][0][\"votes\"])")" = "1" ]' && ok "alice's vote counts on $MK_NAME" || ko "vote not counted on $MK_NAME"
+
+echo "  specified notes"
+mk notes/create "{\"text\":\"@alice_$MK_NAME@privapub.test a secret for PrivaPub\",\"visibility\":\"specified\",\"visibleUserIds\":[\"$alice_on_mk\"]}" >/dev/null
+until_true 30 'curl -s -H "$KH" "$P/api/v1/conversations" | grep -q "a secret for PrivaPub"' && ok "mkuser's specified note arrives as a DM" || ko "specified note missing on PrivaPub"
+curl -s -o /dev/null -X POST -H "$KH" $P/api/v1/statuses -d "status=@mkuser@$MKH a secret for $MK_NAME&visibility=direct"
+until_true 30 'mk notes/mentions "{\"visibility\":\"specified\"}" | grep -q "a secret for $MK_NAME"' && ok "alice's DM arrives as a specified note" || ko "DM missing on $MK_NAME"
+
+echo "  media"
+make_png "$work/red.png"
+k_media=$(curl -s -X POST -H "$KH" "$P/api/v2/media" -F "file=@$work/red.png;type=image/png" -F 'description=a red square' | j "print(d['id'])")
+k_media_uri=$(curl -s -X POST -H "$KH" $P/api/v1/statuses -d "status=a picture for $MK_NAME&visibility=public&media_ids[]=$k_media" | j "print(d['uri'])")
+until_true 30 '[ "$(mk_note_by_uri "$alice_on_mk" "$k_media_uri" | j "print(d[\"files\"][0][\"comment\"])")" = "a red square" ]' && ok "an image with alt text reaches $MK_NAME" || ko "image or alt text missing on $MK_NAME"
+mk_file=$(site "$MKH" -s -X POST "$MK/api/drive/files/create" -F "i=$MKT" -F "file=@$work/red.png;type=image/png" -F "comment=a red square from $MK_NAME" | j "print(d['id'])")
+mk notes/create "{\"text\":\"a picture from $MK_NAME\",\"visibility\":\"public\",\"fileIds\":[\"$mk_file\"]}" >/dev/null
+until_true 30 'curl -s -H "$KH" "$P/api/v1/timelines/home" | j "print(any(\"a picture from $MK_NAME\" in s[\"content\"] and s[\"media_attachments\"] and \"/media/proxy/\" in s[\"media_attachments\"][0][\"url\"] and s[\"media_attachments\"][0][\"description\"]==\"a red square from $MK_NAME\" for s in d))" | grep -q True' \
+	&& ok "an image with alt text from $MK_NAME arrives through our proxy" || ko "$MK_NAME's image missing, unproxied or without alt text"
+
+echo "  deletes"
+cw_on_mk=$(mk_note_by_uri "$alice_on_mk" "$cw_uri" | j "print(d['id'])")
+cw_id=$(curl -s -H "$KH" "$P/api/v1/accounts/$alice_self/statuses" | j "print(next(s['id'] for s in d if s['uri']=='$cw_uri'))")
+curl -s -o /dev/null -X DELETE -H "$KH" "$P/api/v1/statuses/$cw_id"
+until_true 30 '[ "$(mk notes/show "{\"noteId\":\"$cw_on_mk\"}" | j "print(d.get(\"error\",{}).get(\"code\"))")" = "NO_SUCH_NOTE" ]' && ok "alice's delete reaches $MK_NAME" || ko "delete not applied on $MK_NAME"
+mk notes/delete "{\"noteId\":\"$mk_poll\"}" >/dev/null
+until_true 30 '! curl -s -H "$KH" "$P/api/v1/timelines/home" | grep -q "$MK_NAME asks"' && ok "mkuser's delete reaches PrivaPub" || ko "$MK_NAME's delete not applied on PrivaPub"
+
+echo "  unfollows and blocks"
+curl -s -o /dev/null -X POST -H "$KH" "$P/api/v1/accounts/$mk_on_p/unfollow"
+until_true 30 '[ "$(mk_relation "$alice_on_mk" isFollowed)" = "False" ]' && ok "alice's unfollow reaches $MK_NAME" || ko "unfollow not applied on $MK_NAME"
+curl -s -o /dev/null -X POST -H "$KH" "$P/api/v1/accounts/$mk_on_p/block"
+until_true 30 '[ "$(mk_relation "$alice_on_mk" isBlocked)" = "True" ]' && ok "alice's block reaches $MK_NAME" || ko "block not applied on $MK_NAME"
+curl -s -o /dev/null -X POST -H "$KH" "$P/api/v1/accounts/$mk_on_p/unblock"
+
+echo "  statistics"
+stats_check "$MKH" "$MK_NAME"
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+# Sharkey 2025.4: Misskey's scenario under Sharkey's name, then what only Sharkey does: edits both ways, and quotes that
+# carry a FEP-e232 Link tag instead of `quote`.
+MISSKEY_NAME=sharkey
+. "$here/scenarios/misskey.sh"
+unset MISSKEY_NAME
+
+echo "  sharkey only"
+# Misskey's scenario ends unfollowed and blocked, so follow again both ways
+curl -s -o /dev/null -X POST -H "$KH" "$P/api/v1/accounts/$mk_on_p/follow"
+mk following/create "{\"userId\":\"$alice_on_mk\"}" >/dev/null
+until_true 30 '[ "$(mk_relation "$alice_on_mk" isFollowed)$(mk_relation "$alice_on_mk" isFollowing)" = "TrueTrue" ]' \
+	&& ok "alice and mkuser follow each other again" || ko "refollow after the block failed"
+sk_note=$(mk notes/create '{"text":"before the edit","visibility":"public"}' | j "print(d['createdNote']['id'])")
+until_true 30 'curl -s -H "$KH" "$P/api/v1/timelines/home" | grep -q "before the edit"' && ok "a Sharkey note reaches alice" || ko "Sharkey note missing on PrivaPub"
+mk notes/edit "{\"editId\":\"$sk_note\",\"text\":\"after the edit\",\"visibility\":\"public\"}" >/dev/null
+until_true 30 '[ "$(curl -s -H "$KH" "$P/api/v1/timelines/home" | j "print(any(\"after the edit\" in s[\"content\"] and s[\"edited_at\"] for s in d))")" = "True" ]' \
+	&& ok "mkuser's edit arrives as an edit" || ko "Sharkey edit not applied on PrivaPub"
+k_edit=$(curl -s -X POST -H "$KH" $P/api/v1/statuses -d 'status=PrivaPub before the edit&visibility=public')
+k_edit_id=$(echo "$k_edit" | j "print(d['id'])"); k_edit_uri=$(echo "$k_edit" | j "print(d['uri'])")
+until_true 30 '[ "$(mk_note_by_uri "$alice_on_mk" "$k_edit_uri")" != "null" ]' || true
+curl -s -o /dev/null -X PUT -H "$KH" "$P/api/v1/statuses/$k_edit_id" -d 'status=PrivaPub after the edit'
+until_true 30 '[ "$(mk_note_by_uri "$alice_on_mk" "$k_edit_uri" | j "print(d and d[\"text\"])")" = "PrivaPub after the edit" ]' \
+	&& ok "alice's edit reaches Sharkey" || ko "PrivaPub edit not applied on Sharkey"
+quote_tag=$(podman exec pasture-mongo mongosh --quiet PrivaPub --eval 'var p=db.Post.findOne({Text:/quoting PrivaPub/}, {}, {sort:{_id:-1}}); var r=p && db.ObjectRecord.findOne({PostId:p._id.toHexString()}); print(r ? /"type"\s*:\s*"Link"/.test(r.Raw) : "none")')
+[ "$quote_tag" = "true" ] && ok "Sharkey's quote carries a FEP-e232 Link tag, and is understood" || ko "Sharkey's quote record has no Link tag ($quote_tag)"
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Gets a Mastodon API token for one persona through PrivaPub's real OAuth code flow, as a client would: register an app,
+# sign in with the root's password at /oauth/login, choose the persona at /oauth/authorize, read the out-of-band code and
+# exchange it. Prints "<access token> <client id> <client secret>" so the caller can revoke the token afterwards.
+# usage: tools/smoke/oauth.sh <base url> <root login> <root password> <persona> [scopes]
+set -euo pipefail
+BASE="${1:?base url}"; LOGIN="${2:?root login}"; PASSWORD="${3:?root password}"; PERSONA="${4:?persona}"; SCOPES="${5:-read}"
+jar=$(mktemp -d); trap 'rm -rf "$jar"' EXIT
+json() { python3 -c "import sys,json; d=json.load(sys.stdin); print($1)"; }
+
+app=$(curl -fsS -X POST "$BASE/api/v1/apps" --data-urlencode client_name=privapub-oauth \
+	--data-urlencode redirect_uris=urn:ietf:wg:oauth:2.0:oob --data-urlencode "scopes=$SCOPES")
+cid=$(echo "$app" | json "d['client_id']"); cs=$(echo "$app" | json "d['client_secret']")
+scope_q=$(python3 -c "import sys,urllib.parse; print(urllib.parse.quote(sys.argv[1]))" "$SCOPES")
+q="client_id=$cid&redirect_uri=urn:ietf:wg:oauth:2.0:oob&response_type=code&scope=$scope_q"
+
+xt=$(curl -fsS -c "$jar/c" -b "$jar/c" "$BASE/oauth/login?returnUrl=/oauth/authorize?$q" \
+	| grep -o 'name="__RequestVerificationToken" type="hidden" value="[^"]*"' | sed 's/.*value="//;s/"//')
+curl -sS -o /dev/null -c "$jar/c" -b "$jar/c" -X POST "$BASE/oauth/login" --data-urlencode "returnUrl=/oauth/authorize?$q" \
+	--data-urlencode "__RequestVerificationToken=$xt" --data-urlencode "userName=$LOGIN" --data-urlencode "password=$PASSWORD"
+curl -fsS -c "$jar/c" -b "$jar/c" "$BASE/oauth/authorize?$q&signed_in=1" > "$jar/choose.html"
+form=$(python3 - "$jar/choose.html" "$PERSONA" <<'PY'
+import re, sys, urllib.parse, html
+page = open(sys.argv[1]).read()
+pairs = [(k, html.unescape(v)) for k, v in re.findall(r'<input type="hidden" name="([^"]*)" value="([^"]*)"', page)]
+persona = None
+for block in re.findall(r'<label[^>]*>(.*?)</label>', page, re.S):
+    if '@' + sys.argv[2] + '@' in block or '@' + sys.argv[2] + '<' in block or '>' + sys.argv[2] + '<' in block:
+        found = re.search(r'name="avatarId" value="([^"]*)"', block)
+        if found:
+            persona = found.group(1)
+if persona is None:
+    sys.exit("persona '%s' is not offered at /oauth/authorize" % sys.argv[2])
+print(urllib.parse.urlencode(pairs + [("avatarId", persona), ("decision", "allow")]))
+PY
+)
+code=$(curl -fsS -c "$jar/c" -b "$jar/c" -X POST "$BASE/oauth/authorize" --data "$form" | grep -o '<code>[^<]*</code>' | sed 's/<[^>]*>//g')
+[ -n "$code" ] || { echo "no authorization code" >&2; exit 1; }
+token=$(curl -fsS -X POST "$BASE/oauth/token" --data-urlencode grant_type=authorization_code --data-urlencode "code=$code" \
+	--data-urlencode "client_id=$cid" --data-urlencode "client_secret=$cs" --data-urlencode redirect_uri=urn:ietf:wg:oauth:2.0:oob \
+	| json "d['access_token']")
+echo "$token $cid $cs"
Author	SHA1	Message	Date
thepraandClaude Opus 5.5	123ba39520	A post whose author cannot be shown is left out of a list, never a 500 Build / Build (push) Successful in 4m19s Details Deploy / privapub.thepra.dev (push) Successful in 4m50s Details The v1.19.0 deploy's tests failed where build.yml's passed. A test stored a public remote post with no author id, and when the public timeline test ran after it, MastodonMapper.Statuses looked that null up in its accounts and answered 500. The mapper now skips such a post, and the test stores a real author. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01ELjqpznMFMNrJoJUj6K5p2	2026-10-04 03:46:48 +02:00
thepraandClaude Opus 5.5	f6dbf71964	Everything on, phase 2 completed: SecureMode on in production, checked by the deploy Build / Build (push) Successful in 5m5s Details Deploy / privapub.thepra.dev (push) Failing after 4m39s Details Owner decision 2026-10-04: SecureMode on once the pasture passes with it. - Both clean pasture passes were run over all six peers: - normally: 246 passed, 0 failed; - with Federation__SecureMode=true: every federation check passed. The only failures were four checks expecting an unsigned GET to get 404 or 410 where SecureMode answers 401. Those checks now go through `unserved` and `gone_unsigned` (lib/interop.sh), which expect 401 when SecureMode is on. - Circle posts now reach their member on GoToSocial and Mastodon, and survive Mastodon's signed refetch, as does a followers-only post. The GoToSocial expected failure is gone. - appsettings.Production.json turns SecureMode on. - The deploy now checks that an unsigned GET of @thepra answers 401 and that a browser is redirected. It reads @thepra's discoverability through the Mastodon API, since the actor is no longer readable unsigned. - docs/INTEROP.md (Mastodon, GoToSocial), CLAUDE.md and ROADMAP updated. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01ELjqpznMFMNrJoJUj6K5p2	2026-10-04 03:34:48 +02:00
thepraandClaude Opus 5.5	8c2eba6cbb	Everything on, phase 3: sign-in and recovery tell nothing, recovered passwords end sessions, deleted roots are gone everywhere Owner decision 2026-10-04: fix the account privacy findings. - Sign-in. Every failure answers "That username and password do not match." after the same work: an unknown login is hashed against a decoy, and the comparison is constant-time. "Banned" is told only to someone who gave the right password. This covers /clientapi/user/login, /invitation/login and /oauth/login. - Recovery. - Every request answers the same sentence and queues a SendRecovery job, whether or not the account exists or has an email. The lookup, the code and SMTP move to RecoveryJob, so neither the answer nor its timing says anything. - Codes are kept only as a SHA-256 hash, for one hour. Migration _011 drops the plaintext ones, which never expired. - A recovered password ends every session of the root. RootSessions sets CredentialsChangedAt, which JwtEvents checks against the JWT's issue time, now stamped as nbf, and revokes each persona's OAuth tokens and authorizations. - Deleting a root (RootRemoval: the admin route, or the restored self-delete at /clientapi/user/delete, which asks for the password). - Its sessions end. - Each persona and each group it owns sends Delete{Actor} to its followers, its members and the accounts it follows. - The personas' posts are emptied. - /peasants/{name} answers 410 with a Tombstone (formerType Person or Group), as do its inbox and WebFinger, through LocalActorService.Gone. The names stay reserved. - The root keeps only a unique `deleted-{id}` name; the second deletion on an instance used to collide on "Deleted user". Also, from phase 2's pasture: GoToSocial files a circle post like a DM and shows it only to accounts it mentions. Each member's copy, and a member's refetch, now also mentions that member silently. The GoToSocial scenario checks circle posts in conversations, like DMs, and they pass there now, as on Mastodon. 657 tests pass. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01ELjqpznMFMNrJoJUj6K5p2	2026-10-04 03:16:59 +02:00
thepraandClaude Opus 5.5	fcd35f5043	Everything on, phase 2: circle posts for everyone, private posts on signed refetch, browsers past SecureMode Circles (owner decision 2026-10-04: fix them for compatibility): - Mastodon 4.7 and GoToSocial drop a post that names none of their accounts, and a circle post named only the circle and its /flock. OutboxPublisher.Publish now sends each member a copy that also names that member in `cc`, on the activity and on the object, and names no other member. The Create, every Update (edit, poll, quote approval, policy, through the new PublishUpdate) and the Delete (StatusService.Remove now uses Publish) all go that way. - UpdateOf renders with the post's group, so an Update keeps a circle post's `audience` and a community post's `Page` and title. - A reply to a circle post stays in the circle, whichever client wrote it. - A circle post can no longer quote a post that needs permission: asking would show the circle post to its author. Posts that are not public, on refetch (SignedFetchAuthorizer.MayRead): - Followers-only, direct and circle posts are served to a signed request from someone they were for, or from the instance actor of a server where one of them lives. That is a follower or an addressed account, an addressed account, or a member. Everyone else still gets 404. - Once deleted they answer those readers 410. Mastodon deletes its copy when a refetch answers 404. - A circle refetch names the requesting member, or the members on the requesting server, as the delivered copy did. - /grunts/create-{id} serves the same. - /peasants/{name}/whispers/{id}, a DM's `context`, was never routed. It is now the conversation's posts, for its participants only. SecureMode lets browsers through to the redirect to the public page, instead of answering them 401. 653 tests pass. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01ELjqpznMFMNrJoJUj6K5p2	2026-10-04 03:01:14 +02:00
thepraandClaude Opus 5.5	5f56681c01	Everything on, phase 1: geolocation fetches itself, the deploy signs in as @thepra , the crawler is on, sign-up by invitation Build / Build (push) Successful in 5m1s Details Deploy / privapub.thepra.dev (push) Successful in 5m39s Details Owner decisions (2026-10-04, recorded in docs/ROADMAP.md): production runs everything that is built, and nothing waits on a person running a command. - Geolocation updates itself. GeoUpdater, a hosted service, checks daily whether each DB-IP Lite database was built this month. If not, it fetches this month's, or last month's early in the month. It installs a file only once it opens as the right kind of database, then swaps it in atomically, and the locator reloads at once. Lookups now run under the lock, so a reload can no longer dispose a reader mid-lookup. The systemd timer, its script and their setup.sh lines are gone: the root step they needed never happened, and none is needed now. /stargazing names the database in use. - The admin CLI runs after the app is built, with every service and nothing started. - `create-root <login> [--admin]` takes the password on stdin; it is how the first login is made while sign-up is closed. - `smoke <persona>` keeps the root `deploy-smoke` and an undiscoverable persona, and gives the root a new password on every run. - The deploy signs in as @thepra. It runs the CLI, gets a token through the real OAuth flow (tools/smoke/oauth.sh, moved out of the pasture's privapub_token, which now uses it), checks the signed-in API and that @thepra is undiscoverable, then revokes the token. PRIVAPUB_SMOKE_TOKEN is gone. - The deploy also fails when: - NodeInfo and the instance API disagree about registrations; - /stargazing does not say the crawler is on; - the geolocation databases are missing or more than 40 days old. - The crawler is on in production, seeded with ten large servers of different kinds. FEDERATION.md now describes it and how to opt out. - One registrations switch (Registrations:Mode, default Invitations; Open in tests and the pasture). It is read by open sign-up (403 when closed), NodeInfo `openRegistrations`, and v1 and v2 of the instance API, so they can no longer disagree. Before, NodeInfo said open and the instance API said closed. Group invitations always work, so invites_enabled is true. - A persona edit through /clientapi no longer resets what the Mastodon API set (discoverable, locked, quote policy…): the theme is merged into the settings instead of replacing them. 650 tests pass. The deploy's smoke step was rehearsed against the pasture's PrivaPub. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01ELjqpznMFMNrJoJUj6K5p2	2026-10-04 02:37:38 +02:00
thepraandClaude Opus 5.5	cd5eb25948	docs: v1.17.1 deployed and verified; what the T/M track still needs from the owner Build / Build (push) Successful in 4m8s Details Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01ELjqpznMFMNrJoJUj6K5p2	2026-10-03 15:35:14 +02:00
thepraandClaude Opus 5.5	ab526ed291	T12, T13: Sharkey and Akkoma in the pasture, and two bugs Akkoma found Build / Build (push) Successful in 4m51s Details Deploy / privapub.thepra.dev (push) Successful in 5m2s Details Sharkey 2025.4.7 is the Misskey peer under another name, image, database, Redis db and home. Its scenario is Misskey's plus edits both ways and the FEP-e232 quote tag: 40 checks pass. Akkoma 3.20.1 publishes no image, so tools/pasture/images/akkoma installs its OTP release, pinned by checksum, and appends Caddy's CA to the CA bundles the release ships. Its scenario has 44 checks, which pass three runs in a row: - follows, posts, CW, followers-only posts and the published time; - replies, likes, boosts and their undos; - EmojiReact both ways and withdrawn; - DMs, polls, quotes, media, edits with history and deletes, both ways; - unfollow, block, unblock and statistics. The two bugs, both fixed: - Followers-only posts arrived as DMs on Pleroma and Akkoma. They call a post private only if an address in `to` contains "/followers" or its cc is not empty. Ours is /groupies, and a post mentioning nobody had an empty cc. The followers collection is now named in cc as well, which tells nobody anything new. - Akkoma's open polls showed as ended and refused votes. Akkoma carries an open poll's end in `closed` and sends no `endTime`. A `closed` in the future is now read as the end. Neither of these is a PrivaPub bug: - Akkoma's Linkify never takes @user@host.test for a mention, so its DM addresses alice with to[]. - Its API never reports a remote blocker as blocked_by, so the block is read from its database. Also in this commit: - The rate limits are configuration (RateLimits: AccountsPerMinute, InboxBurst, InboxPerTenSeconds), with the old values as defaults. The pasture raises the accounts limit, which back-to-back runs from one address had hit. - A new Lemmy never sends what it queued for a server before it started that server's send worker, so the scenario waits for the worker before its first follow. All six peers in one clean pass: GoToSocial 54 (+1 expected), Mastodon 49 (+2), Misskey 35, Sharkey 40, Akkoma 44, and Lemmy 20 (+3) once the worker wait was added. 642 tests pass. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01ELjqpznMFMNrJoJUj6K5p2	2026-10-03 15:24:08 +02:00
thepraandClaude Opus 5.5	aa7e43a61e	T14: Lemmy 1.0 in the pasture peers/lemmy.sh runs the Lemmy 1.0.0-beta.2 backend on the shared Postgres. It trusts Caddy's CA through SSL_CERT_FILE and reaches the pasture through DANGER_FEDERATION_ALLOW_LOCAL_IP. Lemmy 0.19 cannot join: its rustls trusts only its bundled roots. LEMMY_LOG sets RUST_LOG. scenarios/lemmy.sh drives Lemmy through its v4 API. 20 checks pass, three runs in a row: - communities both ways; - a titled thread each way, and alice's mention of a Lemmy community becoming a thread there; - the Lemmy community's announce reaching alice's home; - comments both ways and alice's like as an upvote; - private messages both ways; - statistics. Two expected failures: votes, which Lemmy sends only through the community as Announce{Like\|Dislike}, and a moderator's removal. Both belong to P7. What it showed, in docs/INTEROP.md: - Lemmy 1.0 keeps its user's thread in a remote community pending until the community announces it back. It clears the flag before answering that echo 400 ("Object is not remote"). Leaving the author's server out of the Announce, as tried here, left every such thread pending, so GroupDistributor now says why the echo stays. - Every bare Announce{object} is answered 400, as Lemmy answers its own compatibility Announce(Page). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01ELjqpznMFMNrJoJUj6K5p2	2026-10-03 14:24:15 +02:00
thepraandClaude Opus 5.5	e29da1b47a	T12: Misskey 2026.10 in the pasture peers/misskey.sh runs Misskey on the shared Postgres and Redis. Its config is generated with the pasture's private networks allowed and a setup password, it trusts Caddy's CA through NODE_EXTRA_CA_CERTS, and the first account it makes is the scenario's user. A new Misskey federates with nobody, so the setup also turns federation on. scenarios/misskey.sh adds 35 checks, all passing, as listed in docs/INTEROP.md. They cover posts, CW, MFM source, replies, unicode reactions both ways and their withdrawal, likes as reactions, legacy quotes both ways, polls, specified notes, media, deletes, unfollow, block and statistics. MISSKEY_NAME and MISSKEY_IMAGE are there so Sharkey can reuse the peer. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01ELjqpznMFMNrJoJUj6K5p2	2026-10-03 13:29:17 +02:00
thepraandClaude Opus 5.5	d4e9acdb79	T10: what GoToSocial had not yet been asked, and quick edits that were lost The GoToSocial scenario gains 17 checks: - alice's reply threads under gtsuser's post; - gtsuser's edit arrives with edited_at and two history entries; - unlike and unboost both ways; - images with alt text both ways, theirs through our proxy; - gtsuser follows a PrivaPub community and its announce brings the post; - gtsuser's request to join a circle waits for the owner and is approved, and the circle post is never served unsigned; - a locked persona holds gtsuser's follow, rejects it, then authorizes it; - the deploy's Mastodon smoke check passes, signed in. 54 checks passed, three runs in a row. The circle post reaching gtsuser is an expected failure: GoToSocial keeps no post addressed only to a collection it does not know. It found a bug. An edit made within the second the post was published carries GoToSocial's whole-second updated == published, and IsEdit wanted strictly newer, so the edit was taken as a refresh and lost. A first edit now also counts when it is no older and the text, warning or title actually changed. A bare refresh still never makes a revision. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01ELjqpznMFMNrJoJUj6K5p2	2026-10-03 12:54:01 +02:00