another PSA, this time for GTS ops: you can actually subscribe to the recently enabled relays on the Akkoma instances, and while it doesn’t directly help with outgoing federation, it will definitely help with incoming federation. here’s how:
relay@instance.tld on the Akkoma instances which have the relay enabled@Sacchihikaru @onnes oh yea, you can just disable the permission, forgot about that lmao
Just typed this up on my website (https://tanzi-media.com/Blogs/Misc_blogs/Solving_Problems)
Sort of my thoughts on a recent #vlogbrothers video, but also talked about how excited I've been to see how everyone has reacted to #cohost shutting down, and how in large part everyone is trying to create spaces on the internet that they actually want to be on. Something Cohost showed as was possible.
#tanzimedia_blogs
PSA for Akkoma instance ops: we just found out that the internal relay Works and Behaves as Expected with the allowlist. this’ll definitely help with federation and discovery
here’s how to set it up:
Allow Relay in the instance settings (or :instance, allow_relay: true in the config)https://instance.tld/relay, needs to be the “real” URL for split domain setups) in relays, you can refresh the list after a few seconds, if Followed back changes to a ✓, it’s working@kda @Sacchihikaru update: we actually just found something that will work for akkoma, I’ll make a dedicated post about it