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Visne :verified:

@darius I actually want more people as opposed to less right now, especially after I learned that sadly boost/favorite counts aren't federated (so no explore page ๐Ÿ˜ข)

I guess the fact that it is a silly vegan instance doesn't help

11 Nov 2022 at 18:14 | Wall-to-wall | Open on vegoon.party
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Darius Kazemi

@visne I think you will ultimately end up regretting letting in people without first reviewing them, though the temporary boost is always nice

11 Nov 2022 at 18:15 | Open on friend.camp
Visne :verified:

@darius Yeah, I understand. How is the explore page with your 100 users? Is it somewhat similar to the explore pages of larger instances like mastodon.social?

Interested in hearing your opinion about github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i

11 Nov 2022 at 18:18 | Open on vegoon.party
Darius Kazemi

@visne I actually have the explore page turned off because none of my users want "trending" type content! We mostly talk to each other and then follow people who we like in the outside world.

To be clear: the more your users get followed by people from the fediverse, the more rich your Explore page and Federated timelines will become. So it's not just about number of users, but how connected they are to the rest of the network.

11 Nov 2022 at 18:21 | Open on friend.camp
Visne :verified:

@darius I understand not wanting trending type content, and my preference is still to look at my home feed of course, but I like having an explore page to find new people to follow, perhaps interested in topics other than the topics the people I follow are boosting.

Regarding the second part, I was under the impression that posts become trending with amount of boosts/favorites, and since we only have a few users + favorites arent federated, the explore page will stay empty for a long time.

11 Nov 2022 at 18:26 | Open on vegoon.party
Darius Kazemi

@visne yeah I get that. Do you know about relays? They are basically a way for you to subscribe to a source of further information about the fediverse so your server in some ways ingests information more like a bigger server. Info here:

joinfediverse.wiki/index.php?t

11 Nov 2022 at 18:28 | Open on friend.camp
Arjen P. de Vries Timmers ๐Ÿ•Š๏ธ

@darius @visne be careful with relaying though, it can slow down the server a lot.

11 Nov 2022 at 20:09 | Open on idf.social
Visne :verified:

@darius Yep, I've already enabled a bunch of them. I think theres a few on that page I haven't added. Is there any harm in just adding as many relays as you can find?

11 Nov 2022 at 20:12 | Open on vegoon.party
wb x64

@darius @visne how do you get new people and review them without registrations? I keep recommending instances to friends but their only options seem to be crap instances not cool ones. (My own instance invites are a fallback of course but they're often not very glitchy friends either)

11 Nov 2022 at 18:20 | Open on glitch.social
Darius Kazemi

@wilbr @visne There is an option to have the open registration form but with a step where a moderator has to approve. Unless I am misunderstanding your question...

11 Nov 2022 at 18:22 | Open on friend.camp
Lizzie Bรชtises

@darius @wilbr @visne I think it's nice to have big open instances for people who are like "ok I want to see how it looks like quickly without having to wait for an admin's answer", but yeah for most instances it's probably not a great idea at this time

11 Nov 2022 at 20:03 | Open on eldritch.cafe
Richard A

@visne @darius OMG a vegan instance that's so cool! Sometimes I wish I could be part of multiple instances haha ๐ŸŒฑ

12 Nov 2022 at 11:44 | Open on mastodon.scot
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