Hello, with the spicy beehaw drama I was wondering, would it be possible to selfhost a lemmy instance literally just for yourself and no one else to like, circumvent any defederation shenanigans? As all instances federate per default, this should work right?
Allthough, as far as my understanding of how federation works is that I would need to manually subscribe to every community on every instance that I’m interested in as federation only syncs communities that have at least one subscriber on the hosting instance, correct?
Or is there a way to subscribe to EVERYTHING?
Other than that is there any obvious downside to doing that?
This is a good idea, use one account just to sub everything so syncing works and I can use “all” and “subsribed” seperatly, very good idea. Do you know if there is an easy way to “subscribe to everything”? Like a script or something?
Not that I’m aware of. But you can get a list of active group-hosting fediverse sites here: https://fediverse.observer/list From there, you can find the list of groups found on each site and decide what you’d like to subscribe to. I’m sure you could scrape them and build a bot with a little Python or something, if you have any experience with that.