Fmstrat / lcs

Lemmy Community Seeder (LCS)

Lemmy Community Seeder (LCS)

Latest documentation available at: https://nowsci.com/#/lemmy/lcs/?id=lemmy-community-seeder-lcs

When launching a new Lemmy instance, your All feed will have very little populated. Also as a small instance, new communities that crop up may never make their way to you. LCS is a tool to seed communities, so your users have something in their All feed, right from the start. It tells your instance to pull the top communities and the communities with the top posts from your favorite instances (and subscribe to them with the specified user).

Usage

In docker-compose:

version: '2.1'

services:

  lcs:
    image: nowsci/lcs
    container_name: lcs
    environment:
      LOCAL_URL: https://lemmy.domain.ext
      LOCAL_USERNAME: user
      LOCAL_PASSWORD: password
      REMOTE_INSTANCES: '[
        "beehaw.org",
        "lemmy.world",
        "lemmy.ml",
        "sh.itjust.works",
        "lemmy.one" ]'
      POST_COUNT: 50
      COMMUNITY_COUNT: 50
      COMMUNITY_SORT_METHODS: '[
        "TopAll",
        "TopDay" ]'
      COMMUNITY_TYPE: All
      IGNORE: '[
        "feddit.de",
        "feddit.nl" ]'
      SECONDS_AFTER_COMMUNITY_ADD: 17
      MINUTES_BETWEEN_RUNS: 240
      NSFW: false
    restart: unless-stopped

Manually:

cd src
export LOCAL_URL=https://lemmy.domain.ext
export LOCAL_USERNAME=user
export LOCAL_PASSWORD=password
export REMOTE_INSTANCES='["beehaw.org","lemmy.world","lemmy.ml","sh.itjust.works","lemmy.one"]'
export POST_COUNT=50
export COMMUNITY_COUNT=50
export COMMUNITY_SORT_METHODS='["TopAll","TopDay"]'
export COMMUNITY_TYPE=All
export IGNORE='["feddit.de", "feddit.nl"]'
export SECONDS_AFTER_COMMUNITY_ADD=17
export MINUTES_BETWEEN_RUNS=240
export NSFW=false
npm install
npm start

Variables

Variable	Description
LOCAL_URL	The URL of your instance
LOCAL_USERNAME	Username of a user for your instance
LOCAL_PASSWORD	Password of a user for your instance
REMOTE_INSTANCES	An array of remote instances you would like to pull top communities from
POST_COUNT	The number of top posts to pull from each instance, for each sort method
COMMUNITY_COUNT	The number of top communities to pull from each instance, for each sort method
COMMUNITY_SORT_METHODS	The sort methods you would like to search by
COMMUNITY_TYPE	Whether to pull all communities or just local ones
IGNORE	If a string exists in the community name, it will be ignored
SECONDS_AFTER_COMMUNITY_ADD	How long to sleep after adding a new community to your instance
MINUTES_BETWEEN_RUNS	How long to wait between runs
NSFW	To add or not to add NSFW communities