Just a few days ago, I lunched my new relay service for the #Fediverse and I'm really happy to see that there're already many ones connected to - more than 50 instances in just a few days!
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Just a few days ago, I lunched my new relay service for the #Fediverse and I'm really happy to see that there're already many ones connected to - more than 50 instances in just a few days!
But what makes me even really happy is to see, that my service [2] also gets linked in the release notes of #snac [1] / #snac2 - and I can recommend the usage of relay services (it doesn't matter which one!) to everyone. It provides more content from connected instances to you, but also brings your posts - from your local instance - up to other ones within the federated network where it can get much easier distributed around other instances.
#snac is the perfect way to host an own fediverse instance. Using the #ActivityPub protocol allows you to connect to all other instances. With the integrated #Mastodon API, you can also use most of your usual clients or web clients. Snac is light, fast, does not require any database and follows the KISS way - which the most of us BSD people are living. With relay services, it's the perfect match for singe-user instances and @grunfink is always open for ideas and to help! It does not always need to be #Mastodon, #GoToSocial etc!
And if you're using any other software, you may still benefit by using relay services. And if you're still looking for a guide, howto setup snac2 on #FreeBSD, my howto [3] might help you out.
[1]: https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2
[2]: https://fedi-relay.gyptazy.com
[3]: https://gyptazy.com/install-snac2-on-freebsd-an-activitypub-instance-for-the-fediverse/#community #opensource #development #coding #c #clang #homelab #hosting #BSD #RUNBSD #Howto
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replied to gyptazy last edited by@[email protected]
Thank you for this service
. I Just recently switched to #snac and it all is still a bit over my head.
Since you know snac (and your own relay obviously), If I may ask:
I now follow your #relay with my relay account and am now getting all the content, but I wonder about the reverse. I see your relay follows my relay now and I wonder: Since my relay doesn't boost anything and doesn't follows anything, will it "magically" still fill your relay service with posts from my instance, or should I enable my relay user to boost everything and let it follow all local accounts?
The documentation doesn't yet mention this step.
CC: @[email protected]
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Hi, #snac author here. If your instance has a relay user, all your public posts are boosted to all subscribed relays, improving the visibility.
CC: @[email protected]
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