calvin

joined 1 year ago

https://github.com/jheidecker/lemmony

This will take care of the other commenters point about having to manually subscribe to everything. I just had it pull the top 500 communities from the top two instances and I'm fine...

And it worked perfectly! Thank you for that work!

[–] calvin@lemmy.todayyoutomorrow.me 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The problem is you lose the ability to encounter new communities by browsing "All". And since I'm the only user on my instance I will never discover any communities that I don't manually add or find on third-party websites not to mention that process of using those websites is cumbersome and tedious...

I added the top few thousand communities and the server runs absolutely fine. :)

[–] calvin@lemmy.todayyoutomorrow.me 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

These are the comments that make Lemmy great.

I can't help but wonder if this would be better served at the client level. Either way I miss this feature.

https://github.com/jheidecker/lemmony

This one is really nice too. I created an issue with the developer to try to limit it to the top most active communities just to not get 7,000. :D

[–] calvin@lemmy.todayyoutomorrow.me 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hear ya and I'm open to learning, but your way I have to still use another instance to be exposed to new communities. In essence I can't have a Reddit "all" page... Is that correct?

[–] calvin@lemmy.todayyoutomorrow.me 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Familiar with the Reddit story?

Thank you very much for the work on this! I just created a topic about this and yours is the most interesting solution!

[–] calvin@lemmy.todayyoutomorrow.me 11 points 1 year ago (7 children)

The idea of this app, which is desperately needed, is to allow those of us that are running a very small private instance to still get access to all of the communities. If you have a decent user base then you don't need this anymore as the users themselves will provide the functionality.

So in my case I am the only user on my instance so I am certainly not going to be hammering a bunch of instances just to send me updates of whatever total number of communities I'm subscribed to.

No, technically it is only showing you updates from communities that someone on your instance is subscribe to. In theory if there were a community that no one was subscribed to you and not get any updates nor would you have a show up in all.

[–] calvin@lemmy.todayyoutomorrow.me 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

https://github.com/Fmstrat/lcs

Use this. It is exactly what we both wanted!

19
New Lemmy Server - Get all communities (lemmy.todayyoutomorrow.me)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by calvin@lemmy.todayyoutomorrow.me to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
 

I have a new Lemmy server (lemmy.todayyoutomorrow.me) and I've noticed only communities I subscribe to show up.

The idea was to have my own local instance but I don't see how I can find new communities without using another instance first and finding those communities there and then manually adding them to mine. I have found the following two github projects:

lemmy-subscriber-bot

Lemmy Community Seeder (LCS)

EDIT/NEW:

lemmony

Does it sound right that I will have to use some app like these to be exposed to new communities?

Thanks all!

view more: next ›