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Populating self-hosted Lemmy instance (feddit.de)

submitted 1 year ago by Lauchmelder@feddit.de to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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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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[–] hikarulsi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Only three options for now:

Subscribed: only what you subscribed to
Local: that instance only, empty if there isn’t a single community
All: shows all the federated

So all should be showing all from my understanding

[–] redcalcium@c.calciumlabs.com 1 points 1 year ago

That's exactly what happen in my personal instance.

[–] eskuero@lemmy.fromshado.ws 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You have to search them up at least once so they fill some posts, but if you want comments somebody from your instance has to be actively subscribed:

There are directories of all the fediverse like https://browse.feddit.de/ that can help you discover easier.

[–] dill@lemmy.one 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Could you in theory just have a bot user that subs to all known instances?

[–] mirisbowring@lemmy.primboard.de 1 points 1 year ago

i did that partially. I have a bit user subscribed to many communities. Unfortunately that is a fully manual task - currently i don’t have an automated way of doing this

[–] 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