Is there, or could there be, a “federating bot” that auto follows any account that pings it, with a copy living on any server that wants to host it, and all of them relay to each other? I.e. any server owner could decide to have the bot sign up on their instance, and then any new server owner could ping one of them from a dummy account, which would then relay the ping to the others, which all then follow the dummy, federating the new server. Nu?
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Als Antwort auf Moss Wizard • • •When you say "federating the new server", what do you mean by that exactly?
Federation generally doesn't happen for entire servers, it happens for specific accounts. If people follow an account, their server starts seeing that account's content.
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Als Antwort auf Moss Wizard • • •It's not a bad idea! I was just wondering exactly what you were wanting to happen 🙂
There is something like it, sort of, called a relay which can forward all the public posts visible to that server. Admins have to be careful though because it can overwhelm the server with mostly-irrelevant posts so it's usually better if they use a relay that is tied to a specific hashtag (for example).
There's a list of what servers can see at fedi.tips/which-posts-and-acco…
Which Mastodon and Fediverse posts and accounts can I see from my server? | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
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