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ActivityPub Relay 📥📤 relay.toot.io

A relay acts as an intermediary between servers that use the ActivityPub protocol. Servers can subscribe to a relay to publish all public posts to it and, in turn, receive all public posts that other subscribed servers publish.

New and smaller servers that are not well connected within the Fediverse can use a relay to increase the number of posts in the federated timeline and improve hashtag results. On the other hand, your server will require more storage and compute resources. Using a relay is optional.

Use relay.toot.io

Registration is open.

You should be able to use relay.toot.io with any ActivityPub-compatible software.
Below are instructions for some popular software.
Please note that ActivityPub relays are configured by server/instance administrators. If you are a regular user, please contact your instance administrator if you would like your server to use this relay.

We normally auto-accept all incoming federation requests. There is no need to write us an email or a Mastodon post to get started. Add our relay to your instance and wait for it to connect automatically. After a few minutes you should see your instance in the list of connected instances below.

We check every day whether connected instances are still reachable. If an instance stays unreachable for more than 7 days, we automatically remove it, so that the list of connected instances below stays accurate and we stop delivering posts to servers that no longer exist. If your instance was removed, just add the relay again and it will reconnect automatically.

Mastodon, Misskey, and forks

Mastodon, Misskey, and their forks can add this relay by using:
https://relay.toot.io/inbox

Pleroma and its forks, GoToSocial

Pleroma and its forks or GoToSocial can add this relay by using:
https://relay.toot.io/actor

Statistics

Processed commands/s: 3960 (last 300s)
Connected instances: 1159

List of connected instances

Terms and Content

We do not persist or analyze relay data. The relay cache is deleted regularly. Please read the terms for each relay you use; some other relays claim content rights over your data. We do not claim any rights over your data.

We do not accept servers that promote, or that serve as a gathering place for, the following:

  1. Discrimination, including (but not limited to) racism, sexism, homophobia, or transphobia.
  2. Explicit (NSFW) content, pornographic or obscene material.
  3. Harassment of users on this or other servers.
  4. Content that is illegal in the following countries: United States, United Kingdom, Finland, Germany.
  5. Incitement of violence or promotion of violent ideologies.
  6. Disinformation regarding public health issues or political/military campaigns.
  7. Spam, including commercial advertising, promotional campaigns, and SEO.
  8. Impersonation of other individuals, public figures, or organizations, unless clearly marked as parody.

We will never sell, trade, or otherwise monetize relay data.

Thank you for using relay.toot.io!


relay.toot.io uses yukimochi's Activity-Relay server written in Go.