@robin @FreakyFwoof I think I need to do this. How lightweight is it? can it run on a raspberry pie?

nice! Congrats! Want some tips? :)

Sorry your Toot just showed up for me. But yes, absolutely would love some tips for sure if you don't mind!

oh sorry about that, I missed this.
I mainly said this because of your post I was replying to. Boosting your post won't actually do very much for your federation other than spread that one particular post around. Fedi is push based, not pull based, so the real way to get content and server reach is to both be followed and to follow people. I don't think GTS does relays yet, so that would be another way of getting content into your instance, but you might need to wait. This is the same for hashtags.

Thanks so much for clarifying and for the explanations! I was under the impression that boosting would indeed result in my server pulling in more posts from other instances, but I guess that was a misconception on my part having seen others doing this after spinning up a new server. I did follow many of the people who boosted though as a way to say thank-you, so perhaps this actually did help extend my server's reach by extension . GTS does not support relays yet sadly, although it is on their roadmap, I only realized it after I'd already configured most things so there was no turning back. That being said though, I do feel GTS is absolutely the right choice for my single-user scenario, setting up Mastodon or one of its forks would likely be overkill for my small Fedi home. That being said, I did find this project which seems interesting, maybe I should look into setting this up: codeberg.org/tante/hypebot

GTS is definitely the right choice without a doubt, at least in my opinion.
Yeah this push based thing is something a lot of people struggle with. If a server doesn't send you stuff, you won't get stuff, without external tools. I'm not entirely sure if GTS does context backfilling yet, I used to use fedifetcher for that for example. That's another way to get content in.