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This is where the magic of federation comes in. Each instance can federate with any other instance, meaning posts from the other instance will show up in your
by INTPenis 5y ago
This is where the magic of federation comes in.
Each instance can federate with any other instance, meaning posts from the other instance will show up in your local instance's federated timeline.
On top of that they can add AP relays that will further add posts to your federated timeline.
I run a very small instance focused on geographically local users and the federation is so rapid that I have to scale up my background workers just to process all the URLs people post from across the world.
- genewitch 5y agois there a place to read up on relays (in general, or specifically misskey to mastodon/plemora)? I'm trying to populate my own server's timeline with stuff that won't scare off people, really.
- INTPenis 5y agoJust search the web for ActivityPub relay, you might add github.com as the site because someone has gathered a list of known AP relays there. But beware that once you start adding relays you'll get a flood of messages in the federated timeline and much of it will be Japanese or other asian languages. Which might scare potential users away. So just silence them one by one, refuse media files from them. People can still follow users on these instances but they won't clutter your federated timeline.