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New Lemmy Server - Get all communities (lemmy.todayyoutomorrow.me)
submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by calvin@lemmy.todayyoutomorrow.me to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

I have a new Lemmy server (lemmy.todayyoutomorrow.me) and I've noticed only communities I subscribe to show up.

The idea was to have my own local instance but I don't see how I can find new communities without using another instance first and finding those communities there and then manually adding them to mine. I have found the following two github projects:

lemmy-subscriber-bot

Lemmy Community Seeder (LCS)

EDIT/NEW:

lemmony

Does it sound right that I will have to use some app like these to be exposed to new communities?

Thanks all!

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[-] stown@sedd.it 4 points 3 years ago

Lemmy Community Seeder works pretty well. You may want to experiment with which servers you pull from though ( beehaw consistently gave me errors which caused LCS to crash). You can set up a specific account without any admin or moderator privileges if you don't feel comfortable using your personal account (all the account really does is subscribe to the top communities from the servers set in your config). As far as I can tell you only really need to run it once in a while to get an updated list of popular servers.

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