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!

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

@calvin@lemmy.todayyoutomorrow.me
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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@mimiclem.me
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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@lemmy.todayyoutomorrow.me
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Do we get rid of the space so that it shows as TopHour?

@mcmxci@mimiclem.me
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Yes, sorry. I have

COMMUNITY_SORT_METHODS: '[
        "TopAll",
        "TopDay",
        "TopHour" ]'
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Thank you for the help!

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