HorseFD

The Trending Communities feature is prominently displayed in the top right of the main Lemmy feed. However, it doesn't seem to actually feature trending communities.

I had a look at them, and one of them doesn't even have any posts. The others are also not seeing a lot of action, with the exception of maybe Lemmy Wish List.

Does anybody know what's causing this? I'm assuming these are more recently created communities, and Lemmy.ml doesn't allow non-admin community creation, so it's stuck showing just these few, even though they're not really trending.

I have a personal Lemmy instance that I’ve set up just for fun. When I browse Lemmy, I usually look at All rather than local or subscribed, because I find a lot of interesting communities I wouldn’t have otherwise found. The problem is, since I’m the only user on the instance, All is exactly the same as Subscribed.

Is anyone aware of a bot, or could provide some API pointers, that would allow me to set up a user on my instance that just looks at the top posts on All on a large Lemmy instance and follows those communities? That way my instances will federate with them and I’ll have a useful All feed again.

Thanks!