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results from a single tenant mastodon experiment:

my experience of mastodon has degraded significantly since setting up and migrating to my own, single-tenant instance. The drastic change in interesting and exciting content was noticeable almost immediately - and even over time I failed to build up a similar feed. This is a testament to @tchambers and the indieweb community, and I may be switching back soon (acceptance pending, of course) and redirecting my mastohost payment there

(2/2) but ultimately I have an unqualified feeling that single tenant instances should be viable somehow.
@ant Agreed. Might need some custom relays built just for this use case….

@ant Thank you!

(But did you try adding a relay? That might help small instances see further into the fedi)

https://joinfediverse.wiki/index.php?title=Fediverse_relays&mobileaction=toggle_view_desktop

Fediverse relays - Join the Fediverse