New instance connecting with other relays?

#1

Hi,

I made a new mastodon instance couple of days and I’m trying to figure out how can I federate with other relays. I have added the following relay URLs:
https://relay.mastodon.host/inbox
https://relay.joinmastodon.org/inbox

Both with status: Waiting for relay's approval

Happy for any suggestion or help.

#2
  1. those are both the same relay
  2. i think that relay is down at the moment. see Where are the relays? for more info
#3

Sorry I meant this (default) relay: https://relay.joinmastodon.org/inbox.

#4

joinmastodon is no longer running a relay. I don’t know what the status of @hugogameiro’s relay is whoops, i was confusing mastodon.host and masto.host. I meant to tag gled, who doesn’t appear to have an account on here

#5

I don’t have any Relay running and don’t plan having one anytime soon.

#6

Are there any relays up and running?
What are the requirements for running a relay?

BTW, all other mastodon instances how do they federated with each other?

#7

once some user from your server start to follow a next server, it’s starts federating with this one, and this all over the fediverse

#8

The relay at https://relay.joinmastodon.org/inbox is not running from what I have been told.

The two we have that are running are
https://relay.mastodon.host/inbox

We just launched so will be trying others as well.
A list can be found here
https://fediverse.network/activityrelay

#9

With relay you can get huge amount of toots although its doesnt help much and your database will fill up fast too