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Michael@heluecht@socialhub.activitypub.rocks (2026-01-15 19:25:54)
Very often I hear from users and ex-users of the Fediverse, that they they complain about posts that never reached their accounts. For example they subscribed to a hashtag on two accounts on separate servers. Now they see that both servers deliver different posts.

A solution for that are relay servers. But not every admin wants to receive thousands of unwanted posts just receive the few ones with content that a user wanted.

A solution for that would be a relay server that would be able to deliver content based on some rules that the admin defined. This should be much more than just a list of hashtags. It should be possible to filter on content in any field of a message.

What do you think about this idea? I’m currently in the process of thinking about a way to communicate these filter conditions.

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insa@insa@socialhub.activitypub.rocks (2026-06-03 18:46:13)
An activitypub relay based on rules makes sense. Filtering by hashtags, actors or message fields can reduce unnecessary traffic and improve consistency of delivery. Maybe FEP-6606 is a good basis for that approach: https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/fep/6606/fep-6606.md