Because stupidity.

As far as I can tell this is just an article where someone's theorizes Musk's plan?

Don't feel bad a bit.

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...

And it worked perfectly! Thank you for that work!

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. :)

These are the comments that make Lemmy great.

It's not surprising as the motivations are quite different. Reddit wants their app to be a shitty Facebook clone while Memmy/Lemmy focus on the user experience.

I can't help but wonder if this would be better served at the client level. Either way I miss this feature.

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

Voat was a replica of Reddit in design. One centralized server. We would have ended up in the same crappy place even if that were a success because at some point they would have wanted to monetize it also.

You have to do some reading and learn about the technology behind Lemmy and federation to understand.

I hear ya and I'm open to learning, but your way I have to still use another instance to be exposed to new communities. In essence I can't have a Reddit "all" page... Is that correct?

Familiar with the Reddit story?

Thank you very much for the work on this! I just created a topic about this and yours is the most interesting solution!

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.

No, technically it is only showing you updates from communities that someone on your instance is subscribe to. In theory if there were a community that no one was subscribed to you and not get any updates nor would you have a show up in all.

https://github.com/Fmstrat/lcs

Use this. It is exactly what we both wanted!

https://lemmy.todayyoutomorrow.me/post/850

Use the LCS app to add communities automatically to your instance. I was quite disappointed to see that I had to manually add every community and wouldn't be able to have the classic ALL page I was used to but this solved that. It runs on a schedule and automatically adds communities based on your criteria.

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Thank you for the help!