The relay was failing because processCreateEvent relied on the friends
table to discover the DM recipient, but friendships aren't federated
across instances. Also, resolveLocalUser matched deleted replicated
users before active ones.
- Add participants[] to FederationRelayEvent with homeUserId/homeInstance
for all DM channel members
- Add getDmParticipants() helper to look up member identities
- Include participants in outbox payloads (create/update) and sync events
- Rewrite processCreateEvent to resolve participants directly, compute
canonicalDmPairId, and findOrCreateDmChannel — removing the entire
friends-list fallback (60+ lines)
- Fix resolveLocalUser to filter out deleted users (is_deleted = 0)
and prefer the replicated user match when multiple candidates exist
The old query missed channels where both members appear as 'local'
(e.g., native Nova + native youruser on orbit). Using
canonical_pair_id is simpler and correct — any channel with a pair
ID is a federated DM that should be synced.
Messages by replicated users (e.g., Jannis browsing orbit) have
source_instance IS NULL because they were created on that instance.
The sync endpoint was incorrectly filtering these out, causing most
DM history to be missing from the sync response.
Add POST /api/federation/sync for peer instances to catch up on missed
DM mutations after downtime. Uses HMAC-SHA256 authentication (same as
relay), determines shared channels between peers via raw SQL join on
dm_members/users, queries the federation_mutation_log with timestamp
pagination, and returns FederationRelayEvent payloads for each mutation
type (create, update, delete, reaction_add, reaction_remove).
Add federation routes module with four endpoints:
- POST /api/federation/peer/initiate — admin-only, starts peering handshake
with a remote instance (validates origin, generates HMAC secret, sends
server-to-server accept request with 10s timeout)
- POST /api/federation/peer/accept — server-to-server first contact,
rate-limited to 10 req/min per IP, creates/activates peer record
- GET /api/federation/peers — admin-only, lists all peers (hmacSecret excluded)
- DELETE /api/federation/peers/:id — admin-only, revokes peer and cleans outbox
Jannis Braun