New Lemmy Server - Get all communities

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!

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    calvin,
    @calvin@lemmy.todayyoutomorrow.me avatar

    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. :)

    throwaway_OT05wZjv,

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    calvin,
    @calvin@lemmy.todayyoutomorrow.me avatar

    And it worked perfectly! Thank you for that work!

    hitagi,

    LCS is pretty great but now my database is growing pretty big. To some extent, I guess it’s something that will eventually happen anyway. Might as well start early?

    bezerker03,

    I just started running my own instance as well and have similar concerns. Interested in what you wind up doing.

    calvin,
    @calvin@lemmy.todayyoutomorrow.me avatar

    github.com/Fmstrat/lcs

    Use this. It is exactly what we both wanted!

    bezerker03,

    Awesome! Thanks!!!

    bezerker03,

    Just a follow-up thanks for this recommendation. Working great!

    calvin,
    @calvin@lemmy.todayyoutomorrow.me avatar

    github.com/jheidecker/lemmony

    This one is really nice too. I created an issue with the developer to try to limit it to the top most active communities just to not get 7,000. :D

    mcmxci,

    I can vouch for community seeder, my personal instance all page looks as populated as my kbin.social account.

    calvin,
    @calvin@lemmy.todayyoutomorrow.me avatar

    That’s the one I went with and it certainly seems to work well. Do you just pull the two top categories that are set by default?

    mcmxci,

    I added Top Hour. I left the run schedule at 240 minutes but it seems to keep up pretty well. I’m regularly subscribing to new communities from the All tab

    calvin,
    @calvin@lemmy.todayyoutomorrow.me avatar

    Do we get rid of the space so that it shows as TopHour?

    mcmxci,

    Yes, sorry. I have

    <pre style="background-color:#ffffff;">
<span style="color:#323232;">COMMUNITY_SORT_METHODS: '[
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        "TopAll",
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        "TopDay",
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        "TopHour" ]'
</span>
    calvin,
    @calvin@lemmy.todayyoutomorrow.me avatar

    Thank you for the help!

    lemmy,

    That is how it works you have to manually add communities

    calvin,
    @calvin@lemmy.todayyoutomorrow.me avatar

    Thanks! I was hoping it would auto-sync and get the newest communities but I understand now how it works. Thank you!

    Nollij,

    Use lemmyverse.net to find communities across all instances. It will make you search a lot easier, and show you when a community exists on multiple instances

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