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Only able to see subscribed communities (h4x0r.host)
submitted 11 months ago by glowie@h4x0r.host to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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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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[–] can@sh.itjust.works 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Lemmy only starts the federation process once a user subscribes to it. I think there are scripts to preload some popular ones though.

[–] glowie@h4x0r.host 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] l_b_i@yiffit.net 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There is a tool I've heard about that subscribes to remote communities for federation until a real subscription. https://boost.lemy.lol/

[–] glowie@h4x0r.host 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Seems maybe that tool is a bit different? If you have a new community, you can use that tool to submit it. Rather than the opposite I'm looking for, where it lets me find new communities I'm not yet subscribed to (directly within my homeserver search).

[–] l_b_i@yiffit.net 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

From the way I read it, you create a user for the tool so when you submit your instance, it can run on your instance. One of the users chosen at random is here https://discuss.tchncs.de/u/communityboost

You can read a discussion about it here https://pawb.social/post/4136386

I also came across https://github.com/Fmstrat/lcs

Edit: Looks like https://sh.itjust.works/u/iso might be the user behind it.

[–] glowie@h4x0r.host 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Hell yea. The LCS tool is working beautifully. Thanks for that!

[–] l_b_i@yiffit.net 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Glad it worked. It looks like its for getting the big stuff while communityboost is designed to help find the small.

[–] glowie@h4x0r.host 1 points 11 months ago

Seems the only caveat to doing this is that now my instance is growing about ~2GB per day lmao

Might need to find a way to prune the storage or else this won't be financially maintainable hah