Hey admins of smaller servers, i have to tell you something!
In the first days of social.tchncs.de i explored some gnusocial and mastodon servers for interesting and active users and followed them from here. So the these where about 20people from random but maybe 8 different instances and about 100 from boosts. Everything else happened by itself. I stopped with this weeks before the twitter update and never needed a bot. My server knows 601 servers atm and my federated timeline is hyperactive.
@milan Thanks for sharing! So you as the admin choose who to federate with right? So there's some control over the federated and local timelines?
Thanks for sharing!
@jamesfirth AIUI, no. Unless an instance is blocked it's federated with as soon as any user of the local instance follows somebody on it. James was just seeding the process so his local uses could see interesting people to start with. @milan
@jamesfirth Oops, I meant @milan was seeding the process. :hushed:
@jamesfirth @edavies i dropped a snowball on a slope with snow.
@jamesfirth well - i would say at least way more empty. :wink:
@milan Cool thanks for the insight on the process! :)
@jamesfirth Yes, that's my understanding: the federated timeline would just be the local timeline which would be very quiet for a new instance. @milan
thanks for tip
@milan and for people of "not so much connected" instances (noadvert...):
if your federatedTL is too light built your homeTL in consequence. Your follows are not a best friends' list ;)
We should all adapt to imperfections as devs and admins do. Socializing on Mastodon will maybe be very different as we used to do
Power to imagination !
@milan Same here. I just stopped manually following random people.
@milan how do you know how many instances your instance communicates with? My "Accounts" admin page does indeed show shitloads of people, but (if I understand this correctly) my PubSubHubbub page shows my instance only subscribed to 10 feeds...