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  • So I personally would be against it because rn the ‘All’ feed on Dataterm and the ‘Federated’ feed on CORTEX are our users’ eye into the internet. It’s what our users want to see collectively. If we used a relay we would see everything instead. I don’t know how the other mods/admins feel about it but I’m guessing similarly. Also, the point of the federation is that you the user are the algorithm in a way, and using a relay would kind of break that imo.




  • There exist ActivityPub relays that are basically already filled indexes that you can connect to a Mastodon instance. This is what it says in the admin settings:

    A federation relay is an intermediary server that exchanges large volumes of public posts between servers that subscribe and publish to it. It can help small and medium servers discover content from the fediverse, which would otherwise require local users manually following other people on remote servers.