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For literally anyone who wants to setup a mastodon instance but hasn't yet, read this please: https://ethanzuckerman.com/2017/08/18/mastodon-is-big-in-japan-th

• geomark 4y ago
  That was an eye opener for someone who was thinking of setting up an instance. Obviously there are risks to federating posts from other instances, but I wasn't ready for this.
  • 3np 4y ago
    You could start with an allowlist approach; add servers to federation when you see they have content/people you want to connect with. Over time the list will grow. E.g. start with the biggest ones and maybe some that are specific to your interests. Over time you will see people resharing posts and commenting on threads from other instances and you can add those as well. If you run a server for other users you could have an account set up for your users to ping with servers they want you to add.
  • SEJeff 4y ago
    Yeah… it’s why I shut mine down fyi. Got tired of fighting that mess that I linked you to.
• INTPenis 4y ago
  Yeah if you want to make your small instance a bit more federated you'll start adding AP relays and then you'll suddenly see a flood of different asian languages. Probably mostly Japanese. And along with them will come a lot of hentai and weird porn. So when you add like 10 AP relays you'll spend several hours just silencing instances based on this. But once you're done you do get a very active federated timeline that will help your local users discover the rest of the fediverse. I almost ban any misskey instance I see with Japanese characters now, not becasuse they're all bad but because I can't see what the instance is about easily. It requires JS and it has no "About" or "Explore profile directory" section like Mastodon does.