Populating self-hosted Lemmy instance (feddit.de)

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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?

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

I don't think there's a way of doing this automatically at the moment.

With Lemmy's API you could set up a bot that takes care of listing all the local communities on a remote server and then searching them from yours, which would make them appear in your search results.

But if you want the publications of this remote community to federate with your server, you need to have a local user subscribed to it.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

I'm working on a Rust API wrapper around the existing common API to make it easier to use. Implemented the calls that could let someone do this exact thing at scale last night.

It's nowhere near ready for production and is still missing a lot of basic API functionality even for a simple bot, but I think it'll be ready to publicly release in an alpha state within the next couple days.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This sounds like a great idea

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