Hey Fedi admins, need some opinions and advice 🙏
There's a service called FediBuzz Relay which provides highly specialised relays of particular hashtags or particular instances:
When I've told admins about this service, opinions have gone in two opposite directions, with some praising it as an easy way of quickly adding specialised content to small instances, while others say it's misusing the Fediverse.
Would appreciate honest opinions about it.
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Brian Lawson
in reply to Grow Your Own Services 🌱 • • •Ben Pettis
in reply to Grow Your Own Services 🌱 • • •Gidi Kroon
in reply to Grow Your Own Services 🌱 • •@Grow Your Own Services 🌱 Maybe it's both. Content discovery on small and single user servers wouldn't work without a relay, so it's very useful. But it's my understanding that it pulls posts from servers using an interface intended for apps and users, not for relays, so it may relay posts from servers whose admins didn't intend to push to a relay. But I'm fuzzy on the details, so I may be wrong.
To help with content discovery there are other types of relays and there are also services like newsmast that are slightly more curated.
Doctacosa
in reply to Grow Your Own Services 🌱 • • •Michael
in reply to Grow Your Own Services 🌱 • • •is feel it’s the latter. It’s also not very good anymore since the api changes.
I dare prefer GetMoarFediverse and FakeRelay: it works better, and isn’t beset by FediBuzz’ problems:
github.com/g3rv4/GetMoarFedive…
github.com/g3rv4/FakeRelay
#mastoadmin
GitHub - g3rv4/GetMoarFediverse: An application that index content with #hashtags on Mastodon using FakeRelay
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