2026-04-16T12:44:00Z https://yabu.me Steve Bate https://yabu.me/npub1hljsyvu6cjclkd5cdnqy7qwpnd7seeha883t43hsxjk6l0zgzeesg06xhl https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/user_avatar/socialhub.activitypub.rocks/stevebate/96/2763_2.png https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/user_avatar/socialhub.activitypub.rocks/stevebate/96/2763_2.png https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsfnjcw29c46hjqrgwh6txzv6wl6ufy6t80le7tndtydprx3ffwfgczyzl72q3nntztr7eknpkvqncpcxdh6r8xl5u79wkx7q62mtaufqt8x7q8c9k I&#39;m creating this topic for discussions about Fediverse relays: sharing technical notes, discussing implementations, documentation collaboration, and so on. The goal is to create an FEP to document the relay-related status quo to help other developers who need relay support (building a server that uses a relay, building a relay, etc.).<br/><br/>AFAIK, there are two relay protocols for the Fediverse, the Mastodon relay protocol and the LitePub/Pleroma protocol. I don&#39;t know how much interop there is between them or if relays must do some normalization based on the type of relay client. I&#39;m still investigating that topic.<br/><br/>I&#39;ve been studying the Activity Relay (Go) implementation and @trwnh has been looking into pub-relay (Crystal). Are there other common relay implementations we should review? The relay protocols and behaviors will probably vary a bit depending on the implementation so it would be nice to have decent coverage of the variants.<br/><br/>I&#39;ve started creating a small relay implementation in Python for educational and testing purposes.<br/><br/>/cc @bumblefudge 2025-04-03T10:58:50Z