Lemmy Support

You shouldn’t run this script, at least not in its default config. It’s more work, but a much better approach is hitting lemmyverse.net and manually subscribing to a bunch of communities you’re interested in.

Unfortunately, given the current state of Lemmy, viewing posts by All gives a very limited view of what's out there, and uncomparable to viewing All posts on R*ddit. The tool mentioned, while definitely could use some adjusting, alleviates that issue a lot more. Asking people to manually hit lemmyverse.net, and grab the communities they want, is definitely workable for maybe 10, 20 communities, but that's just insufficient in seeing what's popular on the regular basis.

Definitely amusing to see you gauge piracy on the same level as hate-speech or porn/loli. Not that I have any opinions about the matter, but amusing regardless.

It also increases the federation load your server generates by 50x or more compared to a “normal” single-user instance that subs to 100 communities or so

I run my own tool, written by myself, subs to about ~800 communities of a certain defined activity threshold, of which have about more than 50 users/month, my metrics have indicated a disk space usage of about 2GiB/day, 20% of a single CPU core, and about 8~10GiB/traffic a day. Is this workable for a tiny instance on a Pi? Probably not, but it is what it is, and while I think my fediverse activity is not agreeable, I try to take steps to alleviate that by manually unsubscribing from the communities that I absolutely have no interest in.

I definitely agree with the part about jurisdiction, but content serving is still done from the original instance, and while I'm not a lawyer, I think the most severe legal threat might be just a takedown.