How are new Lemmy instances first integrated into the network? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 years ago by Kalcifer@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I was told that I should post this here.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/932750

Say you decide to self-host a Lemmy instance. When you create that instance, do you immediately need to download and store all the data that has ever been posted to all federated Lemmy instances? Or perhaps you only need to download and store everything that is posted to the federated Lemmy instances from that point forward? Or better yet, do you only store what the users on that instance do (i.e. their posts, and posts to the communities hosted on that instance)?

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[-] russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net 2 points 3 years ago

I don't suppose your script is published anywhere? My comment adjacent to yours mentions how something like Mastodon's Relay system would really help solve this issue, and it sounds like what you've made is probably the closest thing we'd have to a relay system for a while (given the core devs being super super busy with the existing issues).

On a side note, I wish there was also a way to set the homepage of an instance to "All" as well (which can be done user-side, but not globally), my instance only has a meta-community for announcements, so I can imagine that it just looks like an absolute ghost town to anyone who stops by.

[-] hawkwind@lemmy.management 4 points 3 years ago

https://github.com/jheidecker/lemmony

[-] aaron@lemmy.jcaks.net 3 points 3 years ago

That's cool, thanks i'll check it out. I also found https://github.com/Fmstrat/lcs

[-] Snickers@on.syrma.cc 2 points 3 years ago

That‘s so helpful, thank you for sharing it with us! One question: If I want to update my known communities in a month or so, can I just rerun the script or will that cause issues?

[-] hawkwind@lemmy.management 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

You should be able to rerun it anytime. It only gets stuff that doesn’t exist on your instance. That’s how it was designed. It is dependent on browse.feddit.de however. :(

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