So, I’ve started my own Lemmy instance. The main issue is that right now, I am the only user, which makes it pretty easy for anyone to see what kinds of communities I visited, or am subscribed to. Is there any way to automate creation of some amount of accounts, and subscribing to random communities?

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      1 year ago

      clicks username

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      walla my egyptian friend

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      Maybe by monitoring federation data, or seeing which communities have been fetched?

      I know that if you’re the first person in an instance to look at a community, it won’t load right away. However I’m not sure how someone would monitor that (or why they would want to)

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        If there’s only one user that instance’s “all” feed will be indistinguishable from the user’s subscription feed.

        (unless you do some community seeding)

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    Why do you need to automate it and do multiple decoy accounts? Can’t you just make a single account and use it to subscribe to a bunch of the biggest communities?

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    If your concern is about your instance’s publicly visible /instances list, can’t you just make it private? Or even make the entire web interface private? You’re the boss, after all.

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    People were talking about a script that would go out and subscribe to a bunch of communities. As long as that’s better enough should be able to operate under that umbrella?

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      I did this on my instance. You create a new user and give the script those credentials, it goes out and subs to all the trending communities across the various instances so now my instance has a big mish-mash of communities federated, not just the ones I originally subscribed to on my personal user.

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          I can’t seem to find it in a Google search now so I’ll take a look at my server in case I ran the script there and saved a copy. There appear to be a lot of similar tools now to assist with people moving over from Reddit but this script was really quick and handy.