#relays — Public Fediverse posts

Folks self-hosting on the fediverse:

I am setting up a #GoToSocial instance for myself only.

It looks like #relays are the answer for populating timelines and making sure your own posts find their way beyond your bubble.

But I am wondering about resource usage. What are the cost efficient ways (resource cost, but also literal VPS cost!) to improve my timeline and my own posts' reach on my own single-user #GoToSocial instance?

#RelayServers #Selfhosting

Loops understøtter nu relays

https://fediverset.dk/loops-understoetter-nu-relays/

Hm, maybe #blogging more - read: only - is a better choice after all. I have blogs for all my interests anyway.

And then I could just propagate my stuff via #Mastodon (and more outlets) - like many others do now without ever reaching out to anyone in person.

Exactly for that purpose something like #activitypub has been made. And of course there are various #relays as well.

Less work, dual benefit. Either way the "social" aspect is neglectible.

I seriously doubt all this makes for a better web. But why act altruistically in the company of egoists?

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Aha! I set up #GoToSocial to pull from the rel.re relay earlier today. It's active now, and the Federated timeline is a firehose for the first time since I launched this server 2 years ago!

Now that I know it's working, time to put some keyword matchers on there so it'll be a much smaller firehose.

I've also confirmed that pulling specific hashtags from relay.fedi.buzz works, so it's actually worth following hashtags from a single-user instance now!

#relays

please boost!!! :boostRequest:

hey we're looking to subscribe to a relay on this instance so the trending page isn't blank and such

what're good the ones? like the cool queer and furry and leftist and hacker ones?

#FediAdmin #MastoAdmin #relay #relays

Lembrete: o GoToSocial, como sempre, permite que você configure granularmente alguns recursos e o mesmo vale para os relays.

Você como admin pode inscrever sua instância em relays e definir se:

- (não) receber apenas posts públicos
- (não) receber apenas posts não-listados
- (não) receber posts marcados como sensíveis
- (não) receber posts com mídias anexadas
- (não) receber respostas a um post
- (não) receber posts com determinadas palavras-chave

Separadamente, os usuários têm sua própria configuração de quais posts deles serão enviados para o relay.

As opções são as mesmas acima, caso você como usuário queira configurar o disparo de seus posts para o relay.

Administradores: apreciem com moderação. Relays com muitas instâncias geram aumento de dados salvos no banco de dados e arquivos no armazenamento.

#GoToSocial #FediAdminBR #relays

Since ​@[email protected] seems unable (or unwilling) to understand that many users desire the #FediVerse to be a place where opt-in is the normal and expected implementation for features such as #relays I propose that #fedidevelopers take up this call.

The problem: the implementation of relays lacks sufficient user-based controls. While users may (at least on platforms such as GotoSocial) add relays they desire to have their content sent to, there are no user based controls over relays configured at the instance level.

The current implementation appears to have unintended, and unconsidered consequences associated with it.

Ban evasion can likely be achieved through chaining relays together. We have already seen the unintended consequence of a relay following tags.pub leading to content being relayed non-consensually.

Something that has not been considered is potential damages to users in regions where political, social, or religious beliefs are sensitive topics need to maintain tight controls over where their content is sent. This is a case where the handling and relaying of posts needs to be 100 percent bulletproof.

The Solution: all platforms in the Fediverse should implement instance level relays in the following manner:

1. Instance level relays are disabled for all users on that instance.
2. User settings provide a list of the relays provided at the instance level.
   1. Users can opt to leave the relay(s) disabled, or
   2. They can choose to enable the relays they trust their content being sent to.

Through this implementation we avoid clunky workarounds like adding hashtags to profiles. Also, we make this feature more discoverable for new users who are unfamiliar with the conventions of the FediVerse.

I am unfamiliar with the #FEP submission process and requirements. Anyone willing to work with me on this, I would like to see this brought forth as a FEP.

#fedideveloperverse #fedideveloper #mastodon #gotosocial #misskeyworld #misskey #pixelfed #microdotblog #pleroma #sharkeydev
@alice @admin @gotosocial @Gargron

Unsubscribing tags.pub from Open Registration Relays

https://socialwebfoundation.org/2026/06/28/unsubscribing-tags-pub-from-open-registration-relays/

When you're a Very Important user on the #Fediverse, and you spend 3+ hours writing dozens of responses about how something is opt-in actually (it isn't), and that you understand consent (after-the-fact), maybe you should take the next 3 hours to reflect on how wrong you are.

#subtoot #hashtags #bots #relays #ConsentIsSexy

I'm curious whether anyone on #Mastodon can explain why this post https://mstd.seungjin.net/@theguardian/116535352864096634 is appearing in my feed many times over? I follow several Maths/education related #hashtags (via #relays ), and thought at first I was getting one through each #hashtag #relay (1 post each), but when it exceeded that I looked and in fact it only contains one hashtag I follow, so it's the same post over and over again, maybe a dozen times so far. Why is that happenning? #askFedi #federation #activityPub

Here's something really useful I've found.

One of the great things about the Fediverse is being able to follow hashtags.

But.

If someone puts up a post using that hashtag, and no-one on your instance follows that person or anyone who shares it, it won't appear in your feed.

This is particularly common if you're on a small or single-user instance.

Here's the solution.

First, follow @_followback

It will follow you back.

And then tags.pub bot then reshare all of your posts that use hashtags.

So if you do a post with the hashtag #Fediverse, then @fediverse will share your post.

Here's where the magic happens.

The tags.pub bot will do the same thing to everyone else who follows that followback account.

So if you follow @fediverse, then you'll get a feed of everyone who uses #Fediverse on the Fediverse.

And you'll see their posts even if no-one on your instance follows them.

And it works for all hashtags.

Just put the name of the hashtag, followed by @tags.pub

So @tech follows all posts using #tech, for example.

Or @news follows all posts using #news

#relay #relays #selfhosted #selfhosting #Mastodon #feditip #feditips #fedihelp

I am writing an open letter to the #fediverse #administration and #moderation community, because you need to keep a few things in mind.

Lately I have started noticing some #fediverse #relays disable this instance in the server logs.

It seems like #censorship is alive and well. Whether it be #language or #geography based.

I will say this once.

I have no issue at all with #international content. In fact I encourage it. And I am working on a #translation enabled client for #Mastodon to release as #open #source #software, so that anyone can interact with any #ActivityPub #server out there, to not exclude entire swaths of #audience reach, that would and currently still is, isolated by regional and not human #diversity as such.

To be clear. I do not want to #expose #racism to the world. I want to move beyond that, to create ways by which #inclusive dialog can transcend #world #borders few want you to never forget.

To do that, we will at some point or other have to talk about some concepts that would otherwise never find common resolution in the mind of the everyday person. And I am open to hosting that.

I simply want to put our humanity first, the way the open #internet prior to any concept of #weaponization, was designed to build conceptually. Before bots, automation and spam ruined the experience of the pre-web 2.0 internet. To the point where marking anything as either or, gets you silenced before you remember you once weren't.

Speaking on a personal level, I make mistakes in my ability to just post before I #think about things. I cannot premoderate everything I say to the point where it comes across as neutral or distant, as if I never bothered to go through the experience. And I admit I am and can be at #fault for that. But what I cannot #apologize for, is why I #feel the way I do. In order to clear my #mind my #head, and my #heart for better #times and #memories I can more clearly #focus on. And this is what #inspires me to keep things moving along such a trajectory.

I can't be #positive or #negative all the time. I will just be #real, and let the #moment pass. In #trust that you're with me for whatever part of that #journey comes our way.

I do'nt want us separated by preventable alternatives that bring us closer together. That is my ultimate #purpose as to why I am making this post.

With this in mind, I myself have a tendency to be the only one posting on this server...but if you want to join us, and speak in your own language or talk about issues that matter to you...then by all means, go for it.

I am doing the same here, not to get attention, but to find #community so we can bond over things held in common, not broken by common disinterest. And I have largely been very #successful at this both on other platforms, and by sticking to topics at hand in more traditional forums.

The truth of the matter, is that we have a critical shortage of relays in the fediverse active at any one time. Until recently we have been fortunate here at #MediaNexus to have over 70 enabled instances, this has dropped since to the late 60's since reports started coming in criticizing just one post about the #war I have made, calling out a commentator for their views.

We can't always #agree on things. But we can ensure that we stand for the principle of an agreement not to break down over the disagreements of a few people, who just can't get along no matter how you approach them.

Guys, we need #decentralized #media now more so than ever before. It is not about monitoring for dangerous opinions. I don't want to live in an echo chamber. IF that's what you want, then I suggest you visit #BlueSky for that.

And so this is not about what I want. I have no #agenda to share. Just a simple message. Layered in #truth and #growth of either #awareness or #news that isn't 100% reliant on one person's understanding to be amplified by 1000000 more as their own, holey so.

In part, while we live in an age of alternate #information being so readily available. Even about the same exact #post generating different #analysis by whoever is looking at it from multiple perspectives. We cannot mix #facts with #fiction where #events count objectively.

Losing access to one #relay especially using platforms like #pleroma and #mastodon, potentially means dozens of your available #updates as your #content gets published, cannot be seen. And, I am asking on behalf of all #sane server owners out there, to stand in solidarity with one another for the sake of our continuity. So that one link in our chain, does not and cannot cripple its #functionality anymore. To the point where nodes are centralized around #ideals not #ideas in turn.

Please, mention me in any #disagreement you may have. We are #humans not #bots at the end of the day. And a lot of us pay really good #money to #hosting companies to be able to critically customize our experience on the deecentralized web. Myself included.

We don't do that because it's cool. We do that, because we trust in all of you to uphold this #principle of our continuity as a whole. At the federation, relay, server instance, and user level.

Media Nexus is very young. And I have only managed to get 5 people to sign up because of the common culture I would otherwise not have been able to share as we explore the world we each live in collectively.

As an #important #introduction to the wider reach of independent blogs and forums, I started this server, not to compete with others, but to ensure that we treat this entire medium of #communication like a single #torrent in great health.

I have no interest by and large, in running a #social #media company for the sake of establishing a #network of random people who otherwise have nothing in common accept liking the interface by which we share are thoughts with one another. Although I will admit that's half the fun in making this possible.

In order for us to #work together, I have to imagine we already are doing so even if we never met in person.

Due to the abundant use of platforms widely available for #engagement of various purposes, all I can offer you, is access to someone who puts humanity first. Not by trend, but by principle. That's not just me, that's all of you that believe we are stronger together. Posting just as you do, for being all that you are, where ever your sense of community feels most comfortable belonging there.

No matter who reads this letter, I #support you in all that you do, even if there are times where we have to talk about why we matter to one another. The fact that it can happen at all, is a #miracle I will always #cherish and #embrace while I am alive on this Earth. Because everyone, even you, play a part in our experience in this way. And I wouldn't trade or exchange that for anything.

I #love you for the #person you are, as you become involved in your journey of #life here. And likewise, appreciate you for caring about your place in our world. And as I said above, I only wish for us to find common ground on things we in turn find interesting enough to boost, favorite, and reply to. Whether that's a poll, a photo, or a news article.

I know this post is getting quite long. But there are #reasons why I have to personally speak up about this. As someone who only started their journey on any kind of federated platform let alone hosting one at the beginning of March of this year, following the #tech news of very unsettling feedback. I cannot in good #faith abandon the #philosophy of things that go #viral, because they're #genuine and #free enough to be #authentic and original. And to me, it absolutely #matters that we remember how to #teach this to our #friends and #family as a whole. Less we forget how to #remember our meaning in a world we can still #save from the #absence of all that brings our #presence into #power in turn.

It starts with the #recognition that to deny anyone based on the #group of a sub culture someone belongs to, is a slippery slope of a #sincere and #honest diversion I cannot support.

Thank you for your #attention to this matter.

If this #resonates with you, or even if it does not, let me know.

Yours with warm #appreciation and #gratitude abounding,

Elshara Silverheart

@dansup
It'll make people do some authoritarian behaviour. I think the best thing is to put those under a content warning as "OP blocked user" or something like that. This will make things transparent.
And in client side one can choose to not see such warning posts in their feed. This will be a better suggestion IMO.
#fediverse #mastodon #block #policies #relays #methods #safety #fedi #federatedtimeline #Federation #moderation #practices

🐹 A 1961 Relay Computer Running in Your Browser

https://minivac.greg.technology/

#computers #emulation #hardware #software #logic #relays

Gibt es noch irgendwelche guten Relays für kleine Instanzen? Merke dann doch, dass einige Instanzen immer noch überhaupt nicht sichtbar für mich sind. #fediverse #mastodon #relays #relayserver

What my life has felt like since my ISP blocked port 25:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZmUfUBqE-s

Suggestions for #VPS providers that don't block #SMTP would be helpful, or for reliable / trustworthy #relays that I can use <3

https://blog.gslin.org/archives/2025/10/30/12706/tailscale-%e6%8e%a8%e5%87%ba-peer-relays%ef%bc%8c%e5%8f%af%e4%bb%a5%e7%94%a8%e8%87%aa%e5%b7%b1%e7%9a%84%e6%a9%9f%e5%99%a8%e5%9c%a8%e9%9c%80%e8%a6%81%e6%99%82-relay-traffic-%e4%ba%86/

Tailscale 推出 Peer Relays，可以用自己的機器在需要時 relay traffic 了

#derp #hole #latency #peer #punching #relay #relays #server #tailscale #traffic #vpn

Tailscale Peer Relays

https://tailscale.com/blog/peer-relays-beta

#HackerNews #Tailscale #Peer #Relays #Tailscale #Networking #PeerToPeer #BetaFeatures #TechInnovation

Thinking about hosting my own mastodon instance for some art projects. And I'm sure you all would appreciate me not spamming my art from this account 😉

Digging into it, I'm confused about #relays. Obviously, I don't want to go for the biggest #relay since it's a self-hosted single user instance.

I probably won't be checking posts from that instance anyway. I only want it to post out to the fediverse and be discoverable.

My first thought was to set up a relay, then set up a cron job to wipe posts every couple of hours. That just seems kind of silly. But, it's hosted on the cloud and I really can't afford to wake up to a massive bill either.

Does anyone have any recommendations?

#SelfHost #SelfHosting