diff --git a/src/activity_queue.rs b/src/activity_queue.rs
index 10a0fa1..9eca4e8 100644
--- a/src/activity_queue.rs
+++ b/src/activity_queue.rs
@@ -7,12 +7,12 @@ use crate::{
         filter_inboxes,
         generate_request_headers,
         get_pkey_cached,
+        send,
         serialize_activity,
     },
     config::Data,
     error::Error,
     http_signatures::sign_request,
-    reqwest_shim::ResponseExt,
     traits::{ActivityHandler, Actor},
 };
 use bytes::Bytes;
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ use futures::StreamExt;
 use futures_core::Future;
 use itertools::Itertools;
 use openssl::pkey::{PKey, Private};
-use reqwest::Request;
 use reqwest_middleware::ClientWithMiddleware;
 use serde::Serialize;
 use std::{
@@ -125,6 +124,12 @@ pub(crate) struct SendActivityTask {
     http_signature_compat: bool,
 }
 
+impl Display for SendActivityTask {
+    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut std::fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> std::fmt::Result {
+        write!(f, "{} to {}", self.activity_id, self.inbox)
+    }
+}
+
 async fn sign_and_send(
     task: &SendActivityTask,
     client: &ClientWithMiddleware,
@@ -160,44 +165,6 @@ async fn sign_and_send(
     .await
 }
 
-async fn send(
-    task: &SendActivityTask,
-    client: &ClientWithMiddleware,
-    request: Request,
-) -> Result<(), Error> {
-    let response = client.execute(request).await;
-
-    match response {
-        Ok(o) if o.status().is_success() => {
-            debug!(
-                "Activity {} delivered successfully to {}",
-                task.activity_id, task.inbox
-            );
-            Ok(())
-        }
-        Ok(o) if o.status().is_client_error() => {
-            let text = o.text_limited().await?;
-            debug!(
-                "Activity {} was rejected by {}, aborting: {}",
-                task.activity_id, task.inbox, text,
-            );
-            Ok(())
-        }
-        Ok(o) => {
-            let status = o.status();
-            let text = o.text_limited().await?;
-            Err(Error::Other(format!(
-                "Queueing activity {} to {} for retry after failure with status {}: {}",
-                task.activity_id, task.inbox, status, text,
-            )))
-        }
-        Err(e) => Err(Error::Other(format!(
-            "Queueing activity {} to {} for retry after connection failure: {}",
-            task.activity_id, task.inbox, e
-        ))),
-    }
-}
-
 /// A simple activity queue which spawns tokio workers to send out requests
 /// When creating a queue, it will spawn a task per worker thread
 /// Uses an unbounded mpsc queue for communication (i.e, all messages are in memory)
@@ -520,8 +487,8 @@ async fn retry<T, E: Display + Debug, F: Future<Output = Result<T, E>>, A: FnMut
 mod tests {
     use axum::extract::State;
     use bytes::Bytes;
-    use http::StatusCode;
-    use std::time::Instant;use http::HeaderMap;
+    use http::{HeaderMap, StatusCode};
+    use std::time::Instant;
 
     use crate::http_signatures::generate_actor_keypair;
 
diff --git a/src/activity_sending.rs b/src/activity_sending.rs
index 9940a96..3dda441 100644
--- a/src/activity_sending.rs
+++ b/src/activity_sending.rs
@@ -3,20 +3,23 @@
 #![doc = include_str!("../docs/09_sending_activities.md")]
 
 use crate::{
-    config::Data,
+    config::{Data, FederationConfig},
     error::Error,
     http_signatures::sign_request,
     reqwest_shim::ResponseExt,
     traits::{ActivityHandler, Actor},
     FEDERATION_CONTENT_TYPE,
 };
-use crate::config::FederationConfig;
 use bytes::Bytes;
-use futures::{StreamExt};
+use futures::StreamExt;
 use httpdate::fmt_http_date;
-use itertools::{Itertools};
+use itertools::Itertools;
 use openssl::pkey::{PKey, Private};
-use reqwest::header::{HeaderMap, HeaderName, HeaderValue};
+use reqwest::{
+    header::{HeaderMap, HeaderName, HeaderValue},
+    Request,
+};
+use reqwest_middleware::ClientWithMiddleware;
 use serde::Serialize;
 use std::{
     self,
@@ -37,6 +40,7 @@ pub struct SendActivityTask<'a> {
     pub(crate) private_key: PKey<Private>,
     pub(crate) http_signature_compat: bool,
 }
+
 impl Display for SendActivityTask<'_> {
     fn fmt(&self, f: &mut std::fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> std::fmt::Result {
         write!(f, "{} to {}", self.activity_id, self.inbox)
@@ -99,26 +103,35 @@ impl SendActivityTask<'_> {
             self.http_signature_compat,
         )
         .await?;
-        let response = client.execute(request).await?;
 
-        match response {
-            o if o.status().is_success() => {
-                debug!("Activity {self} delivered successfully");
-                Ok(())
-            }
-            o if o.status().is_client_error() => {
-                let text = o.text_limited().await?;
-                debug!("Activity {self} was rejected, aborting: {text}");
-                Ok(())
-            }
-            o => {
-                let status = o.status();
-                let text = o.text_limited().await?;
+        send(&self, client, request).await
+    }
+}
 
-                Err(Error::Other(format!(
-                    "Activity {self} failure with status {status}: {text}",
-                )))
-            }
+pub(crate) async fn send<T: Display>(
+    activity: &T,
+    client: &ClientWithMiddleware,
+    request: Request,
+) -> Result<(), Error> {
+    let response = client.execute(request).await?;
+
+    match response {
+        o if o.status().is_success() => {
+            debug!("Activity {activity} delivered successfully");
+            Ok(())
+        }
+        o if o.status().is_client_error() => {
+            let text = o.text_limited().await?;
+            debug!("Activity {activity} was rejected, aborting: {text}");
+            Ok(())
+        }
+        o => {
+            let status = o.status();
+            let text = o.text_limited().await?;
+
+            Err(Error::Other(format!(
+                "Activity {activity} failure with status {status}: {text}",
+            )))
         }
     }
 }