@jay Three things you can do to enliven your small-numbers instance (we do all of these):

1: Set up a "Librarian" account that follows others of general interest whether you in particular care about them or not. Our librarian follows a lot of news, art, and science, but use it with _particular_ abandon to fill out your Federated feed.

2: Check said Federated feed, have the Librarian follow people boosted and lively.

3: Use the relay functionality to relay hashtags via the hashtag relay server:

https://relay.fedi.buzz/tag/[TagYouCareAbout]

Also check out generalist relays and add some. You might want to have a solid defederation list first to be safe, but we didn't have any real trouble.

#FediAdmin #MastoAdmin #SingleUserInstance #SmallInstance

A couple of questions for small instances.

1.) Do you use #relays?
2.) If yes, how many do you subscribe to?

#mastodon #relay #smallInstance