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Re:Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy ... by nulbyte on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @02:03PM (#36216728)
> Exactly. I always thought Mastadon could have been so much more successful if they had just proxied cached versions of the most popular instances through a single larger server.

Relays serve this purpose. I use one on my personal one-user instance.

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

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Re:Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy ... by kelseyfrog on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @04:48PM (#36218921)
https://relay.fedi.buzz/

Worked as an interesting relay solution to my small instance. I relayed most of the instances which contain profiles I've subscribed to and it filled out my timeline considerably. Replies to remote posts aren't downloaded by default and this solved that problem.

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