silverpill@silverpill@mitra.social: @astro Thank you for adding support for Create/Announce! Do you ingest these activities through hashtag actor inboxes?<br><br>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.

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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.


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silverpill@silverpill@mitra.social (2026-02-03 01:48:25)
@astro Apparently I am still affected by https://github.com/astro/buzzrelay/issues/132, can't follow a hashtag. I will try to send the Announce activity manually (without a follow relationship), though this will require a bit of work.