mastodon-init VS activitypub-relays

(and/or perhaps this identical thread on Mastodon, itself... and/or in GitHub Discussions, if that's your thing)

there are many ActivityPub relays - here's a list of some

Lemmy is simpler, pick an instance and click communities at the top. That'll show you the top communities (subreddits) that the instance has or participates in (which can included communities primarily hosted on other websites). Sure, it can get more complicated, but getting going is easier than on Mastodon where you need to follow people or setup a relay. The federation model will help negate the need for digg to reddit style migrations because inherently one instance goes rogue others can pick up the slack without major impact.

I've added the following list of relays based on this list but out of a 100 posts that show up, there maybe 2 or 3 that are of interest to me. Moreover, there are a lot of posts that are non-English.

you can use: https://relay.gruenehoelle.nl/inbox - more than 300 instances are using it. More here: https://github.com/brodi1/activitypub-relays

What you're supposed to put in that field is a URL of a relay see above https://github.com/brodi1/activitypub-relays

Stolen from: https://github.com/brodi1/activitypub-relays - and most of them dont work. Use: https://relay.gruenehoelle.nl/inbox ;)

The quickest way to get connected to a bunch of other instances right away is to configure relays to fetch stuff from everyone else who uses those relays. There's a good list here: https://github.com/brodi1/activitypub-relays

If you're running a small or medium server, you may consider adding some federation relays under "Administration -> Dashboard -> Relays".

realized most relays on https://github.com/brodi1/activitypub-relays are either slow or closed down, so decided to host one under:

All I have found was https://github.com/brodi1/activitypub-relays which was great, a few started working right away, but it seems like a random set of servers, I dunno