Hello!
I set up a Mastodon instance a couple of days back for Malayalam speaking friends, so that we can toot away in our beloved native lingo. Right now the instance is a bit of sparse, as it happens with new instances, and I was hoping to solve some of the emptiness problem by hooking up our instance with a federation relay. But I can’t seem to find a federation relay.
Where do I find a federation relay? If you run one, would you be kind enough to let me use your relay?
Thank you!
While the relay features are technically implemented, I do not think there has been a practical implantation guide or even about page writen, so only a handful of people that actually wrote the code for the feat9know how they work? 
Just popping in to thank you for the answer.
I have had a Waiting for relay's approval using https://relay.joinmastodon.org/inbox as a relay. I read somewhere that this was the thing to do, but can’t find the reference. Looking around for information and documentation regarding this function has been pretty tough. I found this thoughJoinMastodon PubRelay GitHub. Would love to see some more information on this 
relay.joinmastodon.org is no longer running, to my knowledge. the code isn’t production ready for high-volume usage yet
Does anyone have any further info on this? It was announced in the 2.5.0 release notes and my instance (ausglam.space) is now following another one (aus.social) but I have no idea how to determine my own instance’s inbox URL. Docs are sparse to say the least.
relays are not built in to mastodon, they’re a completely separate server. we don’t currently recommend any relays for production use.
(deleted some posts—my mistake, I thought you were replying to a different thread about database migrations)
Is every relay welcome to add federate with this relay’s URL https://relay.mastodon.host/inbox ?
I think gled (@gled@mastodon.host) - Mastodon.host is the one who manages that relay. Not sure if it’s still live.
Still, I have nothing to do with Mastodon.host my service is under Masto.host @nightpool I think you got the names mixed up, no?
I can not find any manual on how-to set up a relay, did you find any info in regarding that?
Since relay.mastodon.host seems to be the only relay out there, I setup another one in hopes of reducing centralization and single points of failure. Any instances are welcome to join me at https://relay.social.seattle.wa.us
At this point I’ve been running it for about an hour, so I have no idea what kind of limitations I’ll run into or if this will be viable long term, but at this point I don’t really see any reason it wouldn’t, so feel free to join it!