As the question states. I have the skiils and know how to setup a new instsnce and from looking through the documentation its relatively straight forward. Im just wondering would it actually help the fediverse and lemmy as a whole? There seems to already be plenty of instances to choose from. What are your guys thoughts?

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[–] JustAHouseCat 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Did you guys make that script or is there a repo for it cause that would be very useful.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are several scripts working like that. I use lcs (lemmy community seeder). I'm going to switch to something else or make my own, because lcs doesn't handle it well if an instance is overloaded or not available.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Not OP, but I’m using this one: lemmony on GitHub

EDIT: deleted link, I feel like I made a mistake, see below.

[–] PriorProject 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Of the 3 subscription bootstrappers listed in this thread, lemmony is by far the worst of them because it subscribes to EVERYTHING by default.

Lcs forces you to pick a number of communities to subscribe to, and the other one has default threshold heuristics that pick a limited number of active communities. Lemmony signs you up for the entire firehose of the threadiverse which both makes instances using it pretty bad fediverse citizens in terms of generating a 50x-100x the federation load of a "normal" single-user instance that subs maybe a hundred communities... and also exposes novice single-user instance owners to legal liability by subbing all the small under-moderated communities full of questionably illegal stuff.

I would recommend one of the better designed tools, and to review the resulting subscription list manually to ensure you're not signing up for some sketchy stuff.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I let it run by night and saw what I did today. You are totally right, I will probably need to clean up a few things.

[–] PriorProject 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm not experienced at cleanup, and I don't think lemmony offers an undo. But if you used an account other than your primary... I think deleting that account will nuke its subs and you can start over. If I'm wrong, this may leave a bunch of orphaned subs with no user and no way to write an api-script to unsub.

In either case, I do recommend doing your automated subs on a different account and viewing them in all rather than directly subbing your main account to all that junk. It definitely give you more options for cleanup.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I created a bot account for this, so all green on that front, will experiment with it, thanks!