I was told that I should post this here.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/932750
Say you decide to self-host a Lemmy instance. When you create that instance, do you immediately need to download and store all the data that has ever been posted to all federated Lemmy instances? Or perhaps you only need to download and store everything that is posted to the federated Lemmy instances from that point forward? Or better yet, do you only store what the users on that instance do (i.e. their posts, and posts to the communities hosted on that instance)?
Yes this was unclear to me until I set up my own instance is may be a big deal breaker to the average user. If you can’t view “All” and really see all communities on all federated instances then there is no ability to surf Lemmy. At the very least it should have all communities of instances from either a list or user subscriptions.
edit: if you can share your script that would be amazing, I was thinking of having to do the same thing…