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Installed 0.22.0-rc2 of #GotoSocial and added like 8 relays that are supposedly open. So far just one has accepted my connection. 😕 I wonder how many I should subscribe to so my server feels less isolated.
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@bryan … and don't forget to follow hashtags you are interested in.
@dnkrupinski I was under the impression that just accepting traffic from a relay didn’t mean I needed to follow anything specific? I like to look at hashtags but I don’t need all crammed into my home feed? Right?
@bryan As far as i know there is no feedback for the relay server. This was confirmed by the admin of dresden.network:
@bryan As far as i understand the ActivityPub protocol you have to decide which accounts or hashtags to follow to get your feed filled.
The relay server will not give you messages it just gives you "access" to more "known" servers.
That said: You have to follow accounts and/or hashtags to get your feed filled.
@dnkrupinski @bryan That's not really how it works. When you subscribe to a relay it pushes to your inbox Announces of posts that people from other instances have sent to the relay. Your instance then fetches the original posts and stores them in the db, making them available in the federated timeline. Though not in the home timeline, which is indeed only for people you follow.
Thanks for the explanation.
@dumpsterqueer @dnkrupinski Yeah I'm looking to fill up my federated timeline. I've been writing my own Mastodon client for iOS and one of the features is hashtag groups. I have these clusters of hashtags that I can switch too instead of home timeline. Right now I follow like 100 hashtags via relay.fedi.buzz using the @tag-<hashtag>@relay.fedi.buzz syntax. Would prefer to just get entire raw stream of posts.