So, I’ve started my own Lemmy instance. The main issue is that right now, I am the only user, which makes it pretty easy for anyone to see what kinds of communities I visited, or am subscribed to. Is there any way to automate creation of some amount of accounts, and subscribing to random communities?
How does that make it easy for others to know the comunities you visit / subscribed to?
Only communities a user subscribes to get federated over.
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walla my egyptian friend
… okay? But if i subscribe to every lemmynsfw community, but never post to them… you’d have no idea.
With your own instance, looking at the instance list will show them all to anyone.
If you are the only user on an instance, your subscriptions are the only ones federating over into the server’s All feed. For example, even if you haven’t posted in all of these communities, is this not essentially your personal list of subscriptions?
https://lemmy.saik0.com/communities?listingType=All
That’s precisely the issue I’m talking about
This isn’t entitely true. I sometimes see communities I’m not subscribed to pop up on my server. I think it has to do with making the server look up a community by clicking on a link to it? I think one of the frontend I’ve tried prefetches links or something, because I’ve had to get rid of a few NSFW communities in my server that appeared without me subscribing to them.
Most of the communities in the public list are indeed the ones a servers sole user is subscribed to for personal instances.
Oh that’s interesting. I guess when your instance creates a local copy of the post, it would also add the corresponding community to the list to match.
…walla?
Voila
ooooh of course. I should’ve just tried saying it out loud haha
Maybe by monitoring federation data, or seeing which communities have been fetched?
I know that if you’re the first person in an instance to look at a community, it won’t load right away. However I’m not sure how someone would monitor that (or why they would want to)
If there’s only one user that instance’s “all” feed will be indistinguishable from the user’s subscription feed.
(unless you do some community seeding)