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jump to repliesTip for #singleuser or small instance users:
The biggest disadvantage of small instances is the dead federated timeline. Instance admins can subscribe to the classic #relays, but this comes at a high price such as high resource usage and too much noise, depending on the relay. It's either all or nothing.
Instead you can populate your federated timeline by following the #FediBuzz relays. They can be followed as normal users and boost posts based on the hashtag, instance or even language.
Here are a few examples:
@tag-fediverse (boosts the #fediverse hashtag from all instances)
@instance-jasdemi.com (boosts everything from my instance, jasdemi.com)
@language-it (boosts only posts in Italian language from all instances)
Now before you follow any relays, I suggest creating an alt account as this will make you home timeline very noisy. With your main account you can now check out the federated timeline or follow hashtags.
More info here: https://relay.fedi.buzz/
#fediadmin #gotosocial #sharkey #mastodon #feditip #selfhosted
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back to top@jasdemi And you can also set it up as normal mastodon relay, so that the posts don't show up as boosts, but as "normal" posts!
@jssfr Oh yeah, that's how #FediBuzz is supposed to be used. My instance, #GoToSocial, doesn't support relays yet so I had to do it this way. Kinda feels like a hack, but it works perfectly fine for me so far. Haha.
@jasdemi Yeah, I'm doing the same as a mere user on a third-party Pixelfed instance :).
It causes some glitches, but it's better than no relay at all.