Notices by Astro (astro@c3d2.social)

@evan Same for #FediBuzz. Sad the SWF never get back to me when I contacted them about it.

@evan
#FediBuzz was always followable by users because there is just no technical difference.
@julian @mlanger

@evan
I would like to drink from your firehose
@julian @mlanger

@silverpill Why are you in any blocklists?

@MastodonEngineering @dave If there was a "This month in #FASP" account, I'd absolutely follow!

@julian @evan I do trends for individual hashtags only. I fear that analyzing co-occurrency is going to use much more memory than I am allowed to use on our servers in the basement.

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

@badnetmask
- `ps aux`
- `diff -urN`

@silverpill It should.

@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.

@evan No,
I didn't want to miss your talk in front of a full lecture hall.
@bortzmeyer

@bortzmeyer https://git.orlives.de/schmittlauch/Hash2Pub would have been a truly decentralized hashtags distribution service.

@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

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.

@stegodon What can I do while staying compatible with HTTP/1.1? https://github.com/astro/buzzrelay/blob/main/src/send.rs#L37

@evan Uh, maybe I just wait to watch the FOSDEM talk :)

@evan Is tags.pub going to share its firehose as open data?

@evan Great that ActivityPub people start considering global discovery!

Yesterday, the #FediBuzz relay at https://relay.fedi.buzz turned three years old. By now we are feeding 1704 servers and 6149 other users.

Did the #FediBuzz relay stop working for anyone who upgraded to Mastodon 4.5? If that's the case I need to find a Rust implementation of RFC9421 ASAP: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/spec/security/#http-message-signatures