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?

  • Eskuero@lemmy.fromshado.wsEnglish
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    1 year ago

    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.

    • dill@lemmy.oneEnglish
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      1 year ago

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

      • mirisbowring@lemmy.primboard.deEnglish
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        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