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Community discovery on self hosted Lemmy instances (lemmy.felixperron.com)
submitted 1 year ago by felix@lemmy.felixperron.com to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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About three weeks ago, I started my own Lemmy instance. It’s been running great, but theres something that keeps pulling me back to my account on one of the large instances.

I like to spend my time on Lemmy scrolling “All”, which I think is a pretty common thing. However, on my instance where I am the only user, the only communities that show in “All” are the ones I’ve manually searched for and subscribed. Yes, I could go through all the popular communities on the large instances and manually subscribe to all of them, but that would be tedious. Also, If a new community got popular, I would never know it existed unless I checked a larger instance that already has it federated. Has anyone had a similar experience? I wish that when you subscribed to a community, all communities on its host instance would federate.

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[-] RedKrieg@lemmy.redkrieg.com 8 points 1 year ago

I subscribe to !newcommunities@lemmy.world which helps. Other than that I look for mentions of other communities in comments, similar to how I used to on reddit.

[-] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 year ago
[-] Die4Ever@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

This is really great, it's basically the same effect as what OP is doing when browsing c/All on a large instance, except you can do it on a small instance and without using an insane amount of system resources on your server

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