What mechanism governs federation with non group based instances? I set up some magazines for Running and Cycling on kbin.social, and I've noticed that there is quite a lot of activity of those hashtags from general mastodon instances.
Is it just the standard AP federation process, so we're only seeing content from written or boosted by people that someone on kbin.social already follows? Or is there another mechanism at play to like a relay?
That's right. The entire traffic on the website generates around ~2400 people whom I follow along with their reactions and followed communities. Kbin allows to track both (+ specific domains). I'm not a big fan of relays; I prefer when an instance grows naturally and is built by people. Relays will probably be implemented into /kbin someday, but first, better moderation tools are needed.
and I've noticed that there is quite a lot of activity of those hashtags from general mastodon instances.
Yes, that's a feature of /kbin - based on the magazine's name, posts are assigned to the microblog (soon there will be an option to disable this feature ;)). You can also add additional related tags in the magazine panel that you would like to gather.
based on the magazine’s name, posts are assigned to the microblog (soon there will be an option to disable this feature
Can’t wait to play around with kbin!
I’m not a big fan of relays; I prefer when an instance grows naturally and is built by people
💯 Great explanation on why one should avoid using relays over here.
Snippets:
99% of the content are things you don’t want to see. They may be posts in a foreign language, advertisements, pornography, bot posting, and spam.
Over time, your database size will grow and grow. Before you know it, you’ve stored 200 GB of Japanese shitposts and furry porn for no apparent reason, and your community is no better off.
What I was really asking there was about how you have so much non kbin/lemmy content to pull in to those magazines. I understand how the magazine filters them once they federate with kbin.social, but I wasn't quite sure how you got so much content to you in the first place given that most kbin.social users will be following group actors rather than individuals
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