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. :)

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!

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?

Thanks! I was hoping it would auto-sync and get the newest communities but I understand now how it works. Thank you!