@farewellutopia, I agree with @Powersource here.
Rooms are also a much much better onboarding tool for new users in general (since they won't be bomb-shelled by the huge amounts of data present on pubs in the onboarding pub list.

https://github.com/ssbc/ssb-server/wiki/%23ssbrooms is the place

Is there a documentation for setting up #ssbroom yourself on a server that one already have in some other cloud provider?