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When launching a new Lemmy instance, your All feed will have very little populated. Also as a small instance, new communities that crop up may never make their way to you. LCS is a tool to seed communities, so your users have something in their All feed, right from the start. It tells your instance to pull the top communities and the communities with the top posts from your favorite instances.

How to run manually and in docker is included in the repo.

Let me know if there's anything anyone needs it to do and I'll see if I can fit it in. I'm going to work on a "purge old posts that are unsaved and not commented on by local users" first, since small instances are sure to run out of disk space.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Cool.

Would this work for existing instances, as well, to allow discovery of communities no-one has yet subbed to?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Theoretically, yes. One could technically reverse sort, or maybe grab the last page. Hadn't considered this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I wouldn't want to pointlessly federate everything on every server... Maybe once a community hit some certain level of local activity, I'd want some posts to start coming through into all.

[–] Soullioness 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

This is really interesting. But how well does it actually work? I'm attempting a personal server on a Raspberry pi right now but the compiling is taking a huge amount of time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You could always build the image on another computer and import it since building anything takes forever on a pi.

[–] Soullioness 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I would love to know more about how that works! If that's an option then that's what I want to do lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Build it on another computer with a better CPU and then use the save/load feature to tarball it and move it.

https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/image_save/

[–] Soullioness 2 points 2 years ago

Very interesting. I need to sleep now but I'll definitely read that tomorrow! Thanks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Works great for me? Hah

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm using it now, it seems to be working really well. One thing I would probably suggest is adding the ability to list community names not to add. For example, on my personal instance I wasn't really wanting "Piracy" communities, since they could federate infringing data to my instance. But piracy communities are fairly big, so I need to go back and prune them out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

This is a good idea. I will add a wildcard.

[–] MigratingtoLemmy 2 points 2 years ago

This is very cool!

[–] Soullioness 1 points 2 years ago

I just finished setting up a personal instance, but I can't figure out how to run this on my machine? Can someone eli5?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

. . . Thanks for reminding me of Liberal Crime Squad.
http://lcs.wikidot.com/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

This is some great stuff, Ima give it a shot

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

This tool works great! Thanks for your work on this