@oliphant question: does the concept of an ActivityPub relay (as the various pieces of software that do this currently exist) have any relevance to an island network? there are a variety of them but they seem to be universally poorly documented.
Sep 18, 2024, 6:23 PM@atomicthumbs @oliphant not Oliphant but if i was building a nontrivial island network and wanted complete federation within the archipelago (every federatable post available to every instance, so that any user can see any other user's total history, not just what happened to get there, and to provide a good federated timeline) i'd want relays to make this happen.
unfortunately GotoSocial doesn't support them yet, nor can it operate as one:
those are potentially on the GtS roadmap for next year
Glitch and Akkoma do support them already, though i think they both need to use external software. aode-relay seems pretty common on running relays i've seen recently
