Relays rebroadcast public posts to instances that are subscribed to it. For admins, adding relays helps increase the potential amount of posts that reach your instance.

It really depends on the situation. Hardware support is definitely better than it used to be and everything in linux is hackable regardless of distribution if needed, but the reason I haven’t switched my main tower from Arch to Debian is that fear of requiring extra work for things like gaming and music production. If you’re running the newest and latest hardware you might run into an issue depending on the kernel version being used, etc.,

That being said, I use Debian every day on my thinkpad and love it. I have an interest in migrating away from Ubuntu Server and toward Debian for servers as well. I don’t think I’ve ever heard it “not recommended”, just similar caution expressed.

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I believe that was you that was auto-rejected again. Pushed one more fix to the relay image and relaunched. if you’d be so kind to try once more, but if I see the error again I’m going to open an issue on the repo.

Hey I know this is a late reply but I was going over logs and I don’t think Friendica is supported. Your instance is the only one of the three erroring out so far. Do you know if you’ve been able to successfully add relays that support Friendica, and if so could you point them out to me so I can see what they are running?

edit I made some changes to the code in the relay. Can you try to delete and re-add the relay to your Friendica instance and I’ll check the logs after to confirm?

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That’s cool to know this works with friendica! How do you find running an instance? I’ve noticed friendica.world has been having issues lately

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In short they are servers that help instances find posts from other instances

That’s cool to hear. Thank you!!

Amazing. Thank you. Can you search for #RelaySmokeTest123 on your instance and tell me if you get a hit?

Signal is probably your best bet but it’s only mostly open source. Element/Matrix is another good option if open source is your concern.

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I nuked the internal network by mistake. Working on fixing it right now

edit It’s back up now if you’d like to try again :)