I am really excited to watch streams of #FOSDEM talks tomorrow concerning #Fediverse discovery and following global hashtags: https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/track/social-web/
I believe that this all could work much better than #FediBuzz if it gets built into server implementations itself.
Yesterday, the #FediBuzz relay at https://relay.fedi.buzz turned three years old. By now we are feeding 1704 servers and 6149 other users.
Yesterday, the #FediBuzz relay at https://relay.fedi.buzz turned three years old. By now we are feeding 1704 servers and 6149 other users.
"Is there a way to get posts for a hashtag, even for people that aren't followed by someone on your instance?"
Yes, there is! It's called FediBuzz Relay, instructions are here: https://relay.fedi.buzz
You can also find more ways to increase your server's view of the Fedi at https://fedi.tips/using-relays-to-quickly-expand-a-servers-view-of-the-fediverse
By the way, FediBuzz is more specific than general relays. General relays can cause problems for small instances as they take up lots of resources.
Did the #FediBuzz relay stop working for anyone who upgraded to Mastodon 4.5? If that's the case I need to find a Rust implementation of RFC9421 ASAP: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/spec/security/#http-message-signatures
Anyone has any idea what happened to https://relay.fedi.buzz/ ?
I hope its not dead for good? It was a great way to bring together content from the far corners of the Fediverse...
https://mishathings.org/posts/2025-01-22-lists-columns-and-relays/
