update on the whole relay situation: I got an MRF policy (setup instructions for akkoma ops inside) that should limit/eliminate abuse of relay accounts to approximate federated timelines. if you, as an instance op, were using an account to follow relays, you will have to make a new account named relay_follower and use that instead; also forbid using relay as a username (if possible, otherwise you can probably create an account with that name to reserve it) if on a gotosocial instance

if you’re on an akkoma instance or otherwise not following relays with an account, make sure that the relay_follower username is reserved or otherwise unavailable to users; akkoma lets you define reserved nicknames in the instance settings

@adam uhhhh i added the relays in the admin panel

so what does that mean for me

@adam never mind my brain only just processed the second half

@mae it should keep working just fine, it uses the relay account to follow stuff, and I told ppl to whitelist it

@adam just for anyone else who is like me and will get confused by this: it’s called Restricted nicknames in the admin panel. also it’s in the instance section