@BurungHantu you can’t just add instances as relays, unfortunately (because I’d love to add mastodon.social) — they need to join an actual relay server that you’re also a member of. So you gotta get people to join relay.fediverse.me 😉
@BurungHantu yeah, federation is kind of annoying in that way. You either need mutual cooperation or hope that eventually your users will somehow find and follow everyone interesting so their posts show up on the federated timeline... which may work out well for this instance since you seem to be gaining users, hopefully they stick around :)
@jonah True. I was under the impression that instances are more connected to each other. But it feels more like isolated communities now. New users might be bored easily from empty feeds. Lets marinate this for a while and see how it goes :)
@jonah Good to know, thanks!