I’ve heard instances are using some sort of bot to “discover” communities
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matthew@lemmy.woodward.tech 10 months ago
Hello! I did the same thing, and this is my first post on my instance!
I just put it on an old computer with 8GB of RAM, a HDD, and an old i5. Its running great so far.
One disapointment for me is viewing “all”. Since im the only one on my instance, the only communities I see are the ones im subscribed to. Let me know if you find a way around this please!
TheBig2023Meltdown@lemmy.world 10 months ago
freamon@endlesstalk.org 10 months ago
GitHub Link for one of those bots, which mentions in the README that there are similar bots here and here
Loulou@lemmy.mindoki.com 10 months ago
About the same hardware, works wonders (especially after migrating to 0.18.3).
Jumper775@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Can you elaborate on the issue with viewing all? If I just want to scroll and see stuff will I be bc able to see anything across the fediverse that I am federated with or is it really only stuff I am subbed to?
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Servers only receive content from communities that at least one user on them is subbed to. Servers do not download the entire fediverse, only the bare minimum to cover what the users on it have asked for.
rikudou@lemmings.world 10 months ago
I was using this for getting content to my instance: github.com/lflare/lemmy-subscriber-bot