oh interesting, I'm seeing a 503 error, remote data cannot be fetched, when I try to search for my peertube on eric@peertube.seceric.io Any of my fellow #administrator #admin #podmin #mastodon #tech #infosec peeps wanna chip in?

@Eric strange, I found it easily.

@BeAware ???

@Eric your peertube. I followed it directly from my instance.

@BeAware ooooh. thanks!!

@Eric no worries. That doesn't help you figure out why you can't find it, but I guess at least you know it's on your end.

@BeAware I don't know if it's a setting issue in my peertube instance or my mastodon instance.

@Eric I just boosted one of your videos, can you see it on my profile?

@BeAware Yes I saw it

@Eric if you saw it, you should be able to follow from there?

@BeAware Maybe it's something wrong with my peertube instance then? but you said you could find it without issue. When I search for anything though I only see stuff from folks I follow. Not from the global mastodon federated pool.

How do I enable that?

@Eric well, mastodon works specifically by follow relationships, so by default you'll only see accounts from those you follow and those that are boosted.

You can add relays to get some sort of "firehose" of content, but searching a user by direct link or post link usually "pulls" the user or content to the instance. However, for some reason that's not working for you. I'm not certain why that could be....

@BeAware Yeah, I've added a bunch of relays but no one has accepted yet.

@Eric those aren't relays. Those are actual instances.

Relays are a different kind of software that have different kind of URLs.

https://relaylist.com/ is a good site for relays.

Also https://relay.fedi.buzz but if you use the "instance" version of this, be careful, you can easily overload your instance. I wouldn't add mastodon.social for example.

Hope this makes sense.

@BeAware I tried adding the ones you guys recommended, but still not approved.

@Eric you're adding the Pleroma versions of the relays as we were discussing above.

Pleroma relays end in /actor. Mastodon relays *usually* end in /inbox with only some exceptions like relay.fedi.buzz which isn't technically a real relay.

Hope this helps.