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?

      • Monkey With A Shell@lemmy.socdojo.com
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        1 year ago

        Running one of the various subscriber bots would make your own subscriptions simply be part of the noise otherwise on the server. The downside of course being that now you have a pile of noise to sift through. Left one sit for about a week onine and emded up with around 2000 communities subscribed.

    • three@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      clicks username

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      walla my egyptian friend

    • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
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      1 year ago

      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)

      • can@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        1 year ago

        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)

  • ono@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 year ago

    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.