Populating self-hosted Lemmy instance

Lauchmelder@feddit.de to Selfhosted@lemmy.world – 52 points –

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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Only three options for now:

  • Subscribed: only what you subscribed to
  • Local: that instance only, empty if there isn’t a single community
  • All: shows all the federated

So all should be showing all from my understanding

All will only show the federated instances, he would have to manually search and subscribe if he wanted to see anything iirc

Subscribed and All will show the same for a selfhosted single instance, as 'All' will only show communities, that someone on the server is subscribed to. Which is only those of yourself if you are the only person on the server.

How do 3rd party hosted instances show more than subscriptions in the all tab?

I would say in that case they have multiple users, then the tab will show all topics that any of them is subscribed to. It will also show topics that were subscribed to in the past or searched for I think.