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!

  • calvin@lemmy.todayyoutomorrow.meOPEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    The problem is you lose the ability to encounter new communities by browsing “All”. And since I’m the only user on my instance I will never discover any communities that I don’t manually add or find on third-party websites not to mention that process of using those websites is cumbersome and tedious…

    I added the top few thousand communities and the server runs absolutely fine. :)

    • maybe_its_flare@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Yes, that is definitely a drawback and the main motivation behind my tool. Once Lemmy has a easy way to preseed communities, then tools like mine would be made obsolete. Till then, it’s pretty much the only way for personal/small instances to get any good number of communities preseeded on their instances.