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Hello!

I've been thinking about hosting my own Lemmy instance, but wonder if there's an easy way to federate with other communities/instances. I like to browse the "All" tab, but that tab would be empty on a self-hosted instance I imagine.

Is there a way to get all communities of certain instances in my All feed? Or do I have to search up each individual community manually once?

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[–] retiolus@lemmy.cat 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't think there's a way of doing this automatically at the moment.

With Lemmy's API you could set up a bot that takes care of listing all the local communities on a remote server and then searching them from yours, which would make them appear in your search results.

But if you want the publications of this remote community to federate with your server, you need to have a local user subscribed to it.

[–] Lauchmelder@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah, so someone needs to be actually subscribed to a community for their content to show up in All?

Alright I guess I'll have to write a simple Bot that can do that for me then

[–] retiolus@lemmy.cat 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you're comfortable with Python, you can try this out: Lemmy.py

[–] Lauchmelder@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

I'll give it a shot :) If I manage to make something useful I'll share it