One of the things that I thought was a downside to running a single-user instance is that not all of the comments load for popular posts. I really only see the people I follow, I have no other users filling in the blanks in my database.
But this makes it harder to get stuck in the weeds. If I want to see reactions to a post I can open the thread on its home server and see everything.
It's honestly a good filter to keep me from responding to posts that aren't productive to respond to.
lmao, I just realized that this is not a feature, I just never added any relays to my server.
Clearly I've been having a fine time for years without a relay, but I just added the three largest public relays to my list and now my instance is drinking from a firehose.
We'll see how much I like the additional content, exposure, and S3 costs of doing this. Might go back to the bubble I was enjoying.
@Alex I haven’t added any relays yet, but I did install FediFetcher to get more replies to posts in my timeline. It’s not perfect but I do see more things than I otherwise would. https://github.com/nanos/FediFetcher
@Alex Which relays are you using?
@jamie I'm using these Relays:
https://bigrelay.social/inbox
https://relay.infosec.exchange/inbox
https://relay.intahnet.co.uk/inbox
https://relay.toot.io/inbox
I'll check out FediFetcher. That sounds interesting!
It's also nice to follow over 1k accounts because that's the only way any content makes it to me. I actually filter some accounts out of my user timeline just to fluff up my federated timeline.
I still follow those accounts, I just have a more curated personal timeline.