Question #mastoadmin folk: whats the best way to get broader federation on a new instance these days? New server has a decent start but I hesitate to install a follow bot and relays seem messy.
@grant I think a lot of it is just time and exposure to servers, but just wondering if theres a shortcut, like a way to import a big list o’ domains or something.
@grant @twisterghost yes, some of the smaller instances uses relays to exchange a broader set of messages between server.
Local users × how many users they follow × how many users those users retweet = a lot of users across the fediverse.
@twisterghost you can add relays
@twisterghost I've added relays but you will want to block a few instances here or there too so that you clean up the crap you don't interact with or can't read.
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@twisterghost I added a bunch of relays but im not convinced it did much good. At one point I just walked every known instance on fediverse.network and followed the admin but that was a couple years ago. Getting reach is kinda difficult.
@debugninja @twisterghost Following instance admins is a great strategy. Using relays is pretty unpredictable unless you control the relays, can easily crash your server when a new bigger instance is added to the relay.
