We run a tiny 3-person instance, but because of that, our posts are not shared outside of our followers, and I can't see replies if I don't follow a person.
I have one or two relays set up, but it didn't fix the issue. Is the answer to move to a more prominent instance? #mastoadmin
@cliophate well, your post got onto my single user instance, so maybe you aren’t giving your server enough credit 😉
Here are a few things I’d suggest:
use tags liberally. The more the better (without outright spamming, of course)
one thing that I did when I got started with my server: set up an alt account on mastodon.social and boost every one of my posts. That got my posts spread fairly quickly and I stopped doing this within a couple of months or so.
find the ‘correct’ relay - hard to give guidance as I no longer have relays on my server (except fakerelay - see below), but maybe the ones you’ve connected just aren’t very good?
to get content into your server I far prefer FakeRelay with GetMoarFediverse over standard relays: standard relays just relay to much 💩 into your server.
If I may blow my own trumpet, here are two additional tips:
read my blog post about running a single user instance - I imagine most stuff will apply to your server too:
Something I did in addition was open a dummy account on mothership mastodon.social that follows your accounts. That ensures posts reach the largest audience and are searchable there.
Get a reply on m.s and your post stands a good chance of being replicated to other servers. FediFetcher will then do the works so you miss nothing in the resultant thread.
@michael set this up today. How long does it take for you on average on GitHub Actions? I have one that’s been running for over an hour now with the default config.
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