@electragician

On my GNUsocial instance I created a @[email protected] user that I subscribed to every user I could find on other instances at the start. That way, my server had a wide variety of messages in its database, and I could use my own account to follow hashtags of interest without getting overwhelmed myself.

Unfortunately, some people who saw a follow request from an account named "firehose" thought that it would spew out a firehose of spam, and blocked it. Best find another name...

@electragician Yea I am new here and pretty confused on how this all works but it seams cool.

Have you seen the show Pantheon
if you into SciFi its a absoute banger.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11680642/

@electragician have you see the tag- users from fedi.buzz?

It’s a reasonably good way to get hashtag content onto your solo instance.

@electragician Interesting, I hadn't really thought very hard about the difficulty of account discovery from a small self-hosted account.

I recently set up gotosocial to play with it thinking about helping one of my kids try to selfhost an account on their own domain for their jewelry/silversmithing/lapidary business. (I created an account for myself there as @emile)

Curious to follow along and hear more of your starting-out-self-hosting journey :)