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@simsa04 Yes.
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#Pleroma (and I assume #Mastodon) have ‘relays’ built in, where an instance can join other instances’ relays, so that their outgoing traffic is shared with all the other instances that are members of that relay.
The advantage of a relay is that all of an instance’s public posts are automatically shared with other participating instances, where a followbot follows each user individually.
(Another thing that #Diaspora did a long time ago to improve federation.)
Hat Thieves (formerly at hatthiev.es/ but that appears to be gone now) was a group from Spain that was exploring independent and federated services. They operated GS, Mastodon, and Pleroma instances, plus lots of other FOSS but not federated things.
Whenever they opened a new federated instance, they’d immediately start following a bunch of people, to get posts into their network feed. The Masto and Pleroma instances would get angry and mass-block the instance.
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There was one guy there that I communicated with a few times. I asked him one time why they used followbots (and followed people with #nobots in their profiles) and he said something to the effect that the federation improvements were more important. But he was careful not to answer many questions, usually responding "we're hat thieves!" to things people asked.
I'm actually a little sad that they're gone. They couldn't have had a very large core group running their servers, but they had all sorts of things running. They were an inspiration.
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@simsa04 I've been avoiding learning more until my vaporware Fediverse software is in the process of becoming a reality.
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I had replied from over there, but it appears that you did not get it. I'm too tired to do any kind of federation troubleshooting right now (and I'm not admin over there).
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