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   Astro (astro@c3d2.social)'s status on Saturday, 31-Jan-2026 04:39:10 JST Astro

   I am really excited to watch streams of #FOSDEM talks tomorrow concerning #Fediverse discovery and following global hashtags: https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/track/social-web/

   I believe that this all could work much better than #FediBuzz if it gets built into server implementations itself.

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     silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Saturday, 31-Jan-2026 04:39:09 JST silverpill

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     @astro Some servers already have all the necessary capabilities. The missing piece is https://github.com/astro/buzzrelay/issues/79

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     silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Saturday, 31-Jan-2026 05:39:44 JST silverpill

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     @astro LitePub was like a dialect of ActivityPub, but LitePub relay protocol - yes, it is used for both publishing and consuming content.

     FediBuzz can follow servers and even other LitePub relays, which will Announce public posts to it.

     I think FASP is not necessary because we already have similar capabilities in ActivityPub. And those capabilities can be expanded: https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/idea-for-a-more-capable-relay-server/8442

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     Astro (astro@c3d2.social)'s status on Saturday, 31-Jan-2026 05:39:46 JST Astro

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     @silverpill So this is what LitePub is for? There is now also https://github.com/mastodon/fediverse_auxiliary_service_provider_specifications/blob/main/discovery/data_sharing/v0.1/data_sharing.md

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     silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Monday, 02-Feb-2026 22:51:31 JST silverpill

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     @astro Thank you for adding support for Create/Update! Do you ingest these activities through hashtag actor inboxes?

     This might explain amplification, as hashtags can be followed by regular users too. This is how I use FediBuzz -- I just follow hashtags from this account, and relayed posts appear as reposts (boosts) in my feed.

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     Astro (astro@c3d2.social)'s status on Monday, 02-Feb-2026 22:51:34 JST Astro

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     • silverpill

     @silverpill I implemented that relay follow-back in October 2023 and triggered it a few times since then. Gets me 1% of the content compared to Mastodon client APIs.

     Looking at the traffic, I get POSTs on that endpoint from a few manually-entered relays and from Mastodon and Friendica instances that use the buzzrelay. But these two send me every post many times for each of the hashtags they follow on https://relay.fedi.buzz. This spikey traffic amplification scares me and I want it resolved.

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     silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Feb-2026 05:12:09 JST silverpill

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     @astro I announced a tagged post to a hashtag actor, the response was 202. Not sure how to verify, though. Does FediBuzz distribute posts back to the originating instance?

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     silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Feb-2026 05:12:10 JST silverpill

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     @astro Apparently I am still affected by https://github.com/astro/buzzrelay/issues/132, can't follow a hashtag. I will try to send the Announce activity manually (without a follow relationship), though this will require a bit of work.

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     silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Feb-2026 09:25:43 JST silverpill

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     @django

     tags.pub is a project to implement that feature -- collecting tagged content and redistributing it by hashtag

     This is exactly what FediBuzz does. It works great and @astro just added a nice feature to it, which I am about to test.

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     django (django@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Feb-2026 09:25:45 JST django

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     • silverpill

     @astro @silverpill you might be interested to hear that Evan announced a global hashtag service to launch in March https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/WNDQUQ-tags-pub/

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     silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Feb-2026 09:40:36 JST silverpill

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     @astro I didn't. I can open an issue with a detailed report if that would help.

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     Astro (astro@c3d2.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Feb-2026 09:40:39 JST Astro

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     • silverpill

     @silverpill It should.

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     silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Feb-2026 04:48:06 JST silverpill

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     @astro Opened an issue: https://github.com/astro/buzzrelay/issues/136

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     Astro (astro@c3d2.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Feb-2026 04:48:08 JST Astro

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     • silverpill

     @silverpill Detailed reports will be appreciated, but I won't find time for debugging this week.

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     silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Mar-2026 02:56:14 JST silverpill

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     @astro Is there a blocklist? I've never seen FediBuzz announcing my posts, although I did see it announcing posts from other Mitra instances.

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     silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Mar-2026 04:52:21 JST silverpill

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     @caohuak @astro The site says it uses gardenfence, but I am not in gardenfence list...

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     CaohuaK 🐺 (caohuak@moon.lonewolf.zone)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Mar-2026 04:52:22 JST CaohuaK 🐺

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     @silverpill @astro I checked their website and they said they're using a blocklist, so I'm pretty sure all your instances (including the demo instances) are blocked. I tested forwarding posts from a Mitra instance and that works fine.

     https://public.mitra.social/@instance-moon.lonewolf.zone@relay.fedi.buzz

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     silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Apr-2026 03:13:37 JST silverpill

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     @astro At one point I was in one of those lists, but I don't know the reason (they never tried to contact me). Probably because I am federating with wrong instances, or use cryptocurrency.

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     Astro (astro@c3d2.social)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Apr-2026 03:13:41 JST Astro

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     @silverpill Why are you in any blocklists?

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     silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-May-2026 02:15:03 JST silverpill

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     @astro I tried to send an Announce from another instance that is not blocked by fedibuzz, but the result is the same. The announced post is not relayed.