Lemmy does not automatically discover communities from other peers, you have to search for them and have at least one user subscribe.
this post was submitted on 04 Jul 2023
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I apologize but I am not following.
On my instance I cannot search other instances.
But here on blahaj I can.
I tried adding instances but I cannot search those (that were added) either.
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To all who come here with the same issue, I am op posting from my new instance.
- lemmy instances are not automatically connected
- at least one user must be following a community for others to search it
- to add your first community hosted by another instance, search for the full address in your lemmy search example:
[[email protected]](/c/[email protected])after clicking search, wait 5-10 seconds and it will pull up - click on the link and subscribe. Now when another user, uses your instance they can find that community!
- ok... Now you have 1 extra community... What about the thousands that exist?! Read through the comments. Someone provided a tool to basically create a bot account to add servers. I took this idea and created one as well (not sharing it's terrible) but it went through all of my approved instances and all of the communities and subscribed to all. I now have 2300+ communities.
Thanks self!
You're welcome self!
(I'm such a dork)
I want to try this, do I need to change the lemmy domain to my own instance url? (if this is a double comment, I tried it from my own instance, but can't see it on my alt. If someone can see this 2 times, I'm sorry.)
Thanks, I am reading through the code : D
I think my disconnect is I don't understand how the instances connect so this is a HUGE help sends hugs
I couldn't get it running but I was able to sub to a cat place!!!!!
I still want to get your thingy to work. I KNOW I am doing something wrong
docker run --name lemmy-subscriber-bot --restart always -dt --env 'LEMMY_USERNAME=lemmy_bot' --env 'LEMMY_PASSWORD=redacted' --env 'LEMMY_DOMAIN=nerdly.dev' lflare/lemmy-subscriber-bot .
Returns
docker: Error response from daemon: failed to create shim task: OCI runtime create failed: runc create failed: unable to start container process: exec: ".": executable file not found in $PATH: unknown.
I will try it again but I just wanted to say thanks again. With your code I created my own dumb python script that is working. I want to create a great aggregator and you are sending me in the right direction!
I think I will keep working on this and share with you what I did (if you will find it helpful) Or create a pull req if I have the time for your code as well.
This is REALLY what Lemmy needs and is severely missing!
You rock! Meow!
Would you be able to give a brief overview of what your tool does? I feel like it's perfect for my situation, but am new enough to all this that I'm not exactly sure what the tool does.
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