Astro@astro@c3d2.social: @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.<br><br>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 <a class="link-in-note" href="https://relay.fedi.buzz." target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">https://relay.fedi.buzz.</a> This spikey traffic amplification scares me and I want it resolved.

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silverpill@silverpill@mitra.social (2026-01-31 05:24:06)
@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 (2026-02-02 10:30:33)
@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 (2026-02-02 22:49:44)
@astro Thank you for adding support for Create/Announce! 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.