2y ago

Only able to see subscribed communities

Hello! A new self-hoster of lemmy instance. I've confirmed fedi is working and able to return json result for my server.

However, I am only able to find users and/or communities if I manually search for them.

Is there some sort of propagation or sync that needs to occur in order for searched queries to correctly populate data from the fediverse? Cheers

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Lemmy only starts the federation process once a user subscribes to it. I think there are scripts to preload some popular ones though.
- Ah interesting, thanks. I'll see if I can find some. That makes sense that it relies entirely upon the users of the instance and what they search/subscribe to. So, as a single-user instance, it'd only show what I venture out to find. Hopefully, the scripts you speak of can help automate some of that.
  
  There is a tool I've heard about that subscribes to remote communities for federation until a real subscription. https://boost.lemy.lol/
No, lemmy currently does not implement any kind of syncing unsubscribed communities (but there should be an issue about cross instance search somewhere)
Though there is 3rd party script thst acts as an user of your instance and subscribes to multiple communities.
On the off chance you aren't using it already, lemmyverse.net is a decent, relatively instance-agnostic way to discover new communities.
- Nice, that's a great explorer. Looks like I've got quite a lot of indexing to do.

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