I spent the day working on a ubuntu vm that "VPN"s into the tor network to see if i could setup a mastodon bot. It didn't work giving an error 504 but it means it works in theory.

Along the way i discovered how to use tor as an http "proxy" via the torrc and that http_proxy is a variable in the env.production so federation is possible though still requires a lot of modifications to remove SSL / https.

Now that i fixed federation one way federation is possible for any clear net instance with hidden service support like on @MasTorDon (we can see them they cant see us) When / if all the SSL related code is removed it should allow it both ways as well as allow .onions that use the fork to communicate with each other in theory.

Also it seems like editing the env.production file as stated above fixed the text and poll limit code not updating as the text limit is now 1000 and the poll limit is now 10. They were 500 and 4.