@darius Yeah, I understand. How is the explore page with your 100 users? Is it somewhat similar to the explore pages of larger instances like mastodon.social?

Interested in hearing your opinion about https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/11339

@darius Yep, I've already enabled a bunch of them. I think theres a few on that page I haven't added. Is there any harm in just adding as many relays as you can find?

@darius When I first learned about this I was against it but when I thought about it longer I didn't really see an issue with showing people how to control what they see. In my opinion the page with the block/mute/unfollow options should just have a button that says "I want to report this post anyways" instead of completely removing it.

@darius I guess it depends on the user, for some people it's obvious but I imagine that for some people it's actually useful (but I don't know that for sure of course)

@darius I actually want more people as opposed to less right now, especially after I learned that sadly boost/favorite counts aren't federated (so no explore page 😢)

I guess the fact that it is a silly vegan instance doesn't help

@darius I understand not wanting trending type content, and my preference is still to look at my home feed of course, but I like having an explore page to find new people to follow, perhaps interested in topics other than the topics the people I follow are boosting.

Regarding the second part, I was under the impression that posts become trending with amount of boosts/favorites, and since we only have a few users + favorites arent federated, the explore page will stay empty for a long time.

@darius How awesome would it be though if we could create a decentralized social media that doesn't require any 'technical experts' to run?