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A few questions about a single user instance (nauvis.niami.net)

submitted 1 year ago by Niami@nauvis.niami.net to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

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I first used lemmy on lemmy.world but due to its size I had several issues of things just not loading and needing a full page refresh. So I tried to set up my own instance and it works mostly but the federation aspect is leaving me with a few questions.

Will remote communities only sync new posts from when I subscribed or will past posts show up eventually?

Is having a single user instance realistic or should I try find another small instance?

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[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How can I make it subscribe, to every community, on every instance, every day?

[–] HorseFD@lemmy.buzz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can’t, but you can provide a list of instances and then tell it to subscribe to the top X communities in TopDay, Hot, Active, etc.

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But if everyone does that it will creates a positive feedback cycle where the most popular get more exposure get more popular while the rest gets ignored.

[–] HorseFD@lemmy.buzz 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I have it set up so that a bot user is subscribing, not my user. That way the communities are populated with comments and appear in All if I'm interested in the future, but otherwise I wouldn't see them. It makes my instance feel much more alive.

Also, it's worth noting that you can provide a list of the Lemmy instances in the config. You can be as obscure as you like here.

I think the job of seeking out smaller, more niche communities has to be a manual one.