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@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    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)

    • frozen@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyzEnglish
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      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
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        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.