@kensanata After starting a new instance the *admin* should follow a lot ofusers on different instances in the network - so the messages can be seen in the network view. As admin on my own instance I try to follow "all" so their messages are imported.
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@hikerus @kensanata @horsemans Thanks for sharing. This discussion shows the usability problems of Mastodon. Is an instance admin supposed to follow all its users so they see content? Relays fix it? I dont know to what degree. Should we install an autofollow bot for mastodon? Connecting users with each other should be easier. A social network relys on a feature like that.
@hikerus I'm not sure if I want to spend my day following users to make this work. I'd rather go hiking ;-)
Would this autofollow bot for example have the same effect? https://github.com/gled-rs/mastodon-autofollow
"Connecting users with each other should be easier." Of course - that is the goal. But admins have more than this duty. If they want to get traffic in the federated timeline after installing a fresh new instance without any own users yet, it's a good thing to start to follow users in the network. @kensanata