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. :)
https://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
The idea of this app, which is desperately needed, is to allow those of us that are running a very small private instance to still get access to all of the communities. If you have a decent user base then you don’t need this anymore as the users themselves will provide the functionality.
So in my case I am the only user on my instance so I am certainly not going to be hammering a bunch of instances just to send me updates of whatever total number of communities I’m subscribed to.
https://github.com/Fmstrat/lcs
Use this. It is exactly what we both wanted!
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https://github.com/jheidecker/lemmony
This will take care of the other commenters point about having to manually subscribe to everything. I just had it pull the top 500 communities from the top two instances and I’m fine…