@oliphant question: does the concept of an ActivityPub relay (as the various pieces of software that do this currently exist) have any relevance to an island network? there are a variety of them but they seem to be universally poorly documented.
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@oliphant question: does the concept of an ActivityPub relay (as the various pieces of software that do this currently exist) have any relevance to an island network? there are a variety of them but they seem to be universally poorly documented.
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cc: [email protected]replied to atomicthumbs last edited by
@atomicthumbs @oliphant not Oliphant but if i was building a nontrivial island network and wanted complete federation within the archipelago (every federatable post available to every instance, so that any user can see any other user's total history, not just what happened to get there, and to provide a good federated timeline) i'd want relays to make this happen.
unfortunately GotoSocial doesn't support them yet, nor can it operate as one:
- https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/issues/1123
- https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/issues/1124
those are potentially on the GtS roadmap for next year
Glitch and Akkoma do support them already, though i think they both need to use external software. aode-relay seems pretty common on running relays i've seen recently
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Erin 💽✨replied to cc: [email protected] last edited by@vyr @atomicthumbs @oliphant Akkoma and Pleroma can sort of act as a relay, in the sense that they expose a relay which outputs the instances own public posts
This is less useful for an island network where I think you'd want a central relay ideally but I think it has wide applicability for bubbles of friendly instances inside a bigger network