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Populating self-hosted Lemmy instance (feddit.de)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/selfhosted

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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 5 points 1 year ago (3 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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Subscribed and All will show the same for a selfhosted single instance, as 'All' will only show communities, that someone on the server is subscribed to. Which is only those of yourself if you are the only person on the server.

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

How do 3rd party hosted instances show more than subscriptions in the all tab?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I would say in that case they have multiple users, then the tab will show all topics that any of them is subscribed to. It will also show topics that were subscribed to in the past or searched for I think.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

That's exactly what happen in my personal instance.