Mastodon stuck "Waiting for relay's approval", known working relays responding with 401 errors in Sidekiq, relay logs signature validation failed
I am seemingly still having this issue, even after running my own relay
I eventually found a relay that worked using pleroma https://relay.libranet.de/inbox, which had me questioning why only some using pleroma's software worked, so I set up my own, and lo and behold I'm stuck "Waiting for relay's approval" on my own relay.
systemd unit displays the following, Dec 15 23:41:46 nyc python3[2789964]: [2020-12-15 23:41:46,866] INFO: Signature validation failed for: 'https://zee.li/actor'
https://zee.li/actor shows manuallyApprovesFollowers:true for some reason?
Sidekiq is returning this error when trying to use relay, Mastodon::UnexpectedResponseError: https://relay.zee.li/inbox returned code 401