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submitted 1 year ago by Lauchmelder@feddit.de to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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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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[–] Lauchmelder@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah, so someone needs to be actually subscribed to a community for their content to show up in All?

Alright I guess I'll have to write a simple Bot that can do that for me then

[–] retiolus@lemmy.cat 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you're comfortable with Python, you can try this out: Lemmy.py

[–] Lauchmelder@feddit.de 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'll give it a shot :) If I manage to make something useful I'll share it

[–] fazo96@lemmy.trippy.pizza 4 points 1 year ago

I also run a self hosted instance so I would be interested in a bot that stays subscribed to communities I want "synced" into my instance without me also being subscribed

[–] oranki@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

My first thought was also to make a bot that does this, give it a list of servers and it subscribes to all communities on those servers.

Perhaps a subscriber limit, not subscribing to communities with less than X users might be useful. Not sure if that's necessary though.

Haven't gotten around to it yet, but I think the Lemmy API has everything needed to do that. If you want a second pair of eyes on the code, reach out!

[–] seang96@spgrn.com 1 points 1 year ago

I'd like something like this too, if you get somewhere please let me know!