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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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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You have to search them up at least once so they fill some posts, but if you want comments somebody from your instance has to be actively subscribed:

There are directories of all the fediverse like https://browse.feddit.de/ that can help you discover easier.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Could you in theory just have a bot user that subs to all known instances?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

i did that partially. I have a bit user subscribed to many communities. Unfortunately that is a fully manual task - currently i don’t have an automated way of doing this

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yes, it is, might have a look at this, I don't think is too hard to make

[–] Pisck 1 points 1 year ago

Wouldn't this result in absolutely massive demands on local storage?

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

You probably don't want to do this. Just sub to all the communities you want in your self hosted instance. Remember that you can browse communities from different instances on your home instance. My understanding about the default behavior of lemmy and most federated apps is that instances will federate to new instances that request them to by default. Unless your instance is actively being blocked from another instance, it should work. Someone correct me if I am wrong.