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default  ·  2025-01-19 16:32:24 +0000 UTC
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Updated documentation.
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 1@@ -583,6 +583,27 @@ to pass the remote connection address in the
 2 .Ic X-Forwarded-For
 3 HTTP header (unless you use the FastCGI interface; if that's the case, you don't have
 4 to do anything).
 5+.Pp
 6+.Ss Subscribing to Fediverse Relays
 7+Since version 2.69, a
 8+.Nm
 9+instance can subscribe to LitePub (Pleroma-style) Fediverse Relays. Doing this improves
10+visibility and allows following hashtags. To do this, you must create a special user named
11+relay and, from it, follow the relay actor(s) like you do with regular actor URLs. This
12+special user will start receiving boosts from the relay server of posts from other instances
13+also following it. It any other user of the same
14+.Nm
15+instance follows any of the hashtags included in these boosted posts coming from the relay,
16+they will received as if they were for them.
17+.Pp
18+Example:
19+.Bd -literal -offset indent
20+snac adduser $SNAC_BASEDIR relay # only needed once
21+snac follow $SNAC_BASEDIR relay https://fedi-relay.gyptazy.com/actor
22+.Ed
23+.Pp
24+Lowering the data retention time for this special user is recommended, as the amount of
25+received posts can be big.
26 .Sh ENVIRONMENT
27 .Bl -tag -width Ds
28 .It Ev DEBUG