Slowly exploring the lemmy ecosystem, since I don’t want to use reddit, and was wondering if selfhosting would be a good idea?

  • ﾌ卂ㄖ卄乇卂卄English
    2•1 year ago

    But I solve that by using a fediverse indexer every week or so to search for popular or interesting communities.

    Is there a way to automatically federate with other instances? Because I started my own Lemmy instance, and its annoying having to manually go to every community in order to federate with it. (The instance is for my own personal use, so I won’t be opening registrations)

    • frozenEnglish
      3•1 year ago

      Absolutely, there are two tools I use to do so.

      1. Lemmy Community Seeder - Very customizable tool that by default grabs the top 50 posts in the top 50 communities of the specified instances every few hours.

      2. Lemmony - Less customizable tool that by default grabs pretty much everything. Probably less ideal for larger or more active instances, but my instance has 5 or 6 users, only a couple of which are active, so this tool has been awesome for populating my “All” feed.

      I recommend creating a non-admin bot account and using that for these tools.

      • @hamburglar26@wilbo.techEnglish
        2•1 year ago

        Badass thanks for this. I’ve enjoyed kinda keeping my instance more catered but starting to want to at least have more available and just subscribe to the stuff I want to see regularly.