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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Over on Mastodon, there are relays you can sub to to help populate things. I don’t think there’s any such functionality in this corner of the fediverse yet, but it’s surely only a matter of time.
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.
Could you in theory just have a bot user that subs to all known instances?
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
Yes, it is, might have a look at this, I don’t think is too hard to make
I really wish there was an easy way to export and import a list of communities@domain that you can then transfer to another account. It would make it very easy to just add a bunch of content to a freshly created instance like you’re talking about, once you subscribe to communities your instance will start getting updates from them and your “All” tab will get populated.
For now you have to do it manually unfortunately, afaik.
Also wishing for an easier way to do this, manually subscribed to many to help populate our small instance.
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
All will only show the federated instances, he would have to manually search and subscribe if he wanted to see anything iirc
Subscribed and All will show pretty much the same for a selfhosted single instance, as it will only pull communities in, that someone on the server is subscribed to. Which is only those of yourself if you are the only person on the server.
How do 3rd party hosted instances show more than subscriptions in the all tab?
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.
That’s exactly what happen in my personal instance.
I’ve been wondering the same thing. Hopefully someone knows a solution.
I don’t know how it works on lemmy. But on Pixelfed after you successfully federate with Mastodon.social or any other instances. It will automatically start discovering new instances and federate with them.
