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
I just started a relay at https://relay.fediverse.us/inbox I’d love for people to join. It’s still small, but since you can add more than one relay anyways I was hoping people would add it to their instances!
There just doesn’t seem like a lot of relays out there so I was worried about what would happen if one went down. Redundancy is key, so I hope people will start using more than one!
yes the relays aren’t particularly great if you aren’t ready for a lot of traffic, but my main goals were getting a more complete federation timeline without regard to storage or topics (mine’s a generalistic instance)
IMO the main problem with Mastodon is it’s so hard to discover other instances on new installs. It’s a shame mastodon.social isn’t a member of any relays anymore, that’s what this network really needs.