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!

  • aaa @lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Developer of LSB here, no you do not have to use apps like these. They just make it easier to pre-seed communities and even subscribe to them. You could also manually add and subscribe to communities yourself by looking them up on aggregator websites like https://lemmyverse.net. If your personal server is not beefy enough, I certainly can’t recommend using the mentioned tools to subscribe to hundreds of communities out there.

    • 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. :)

      • aaa @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.