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?

      • Saik0
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        010 months ago

        … okay? But if i subscribe to every lemmynsfw community, but never post to them… you’d have no idea.

        With your own instance, looking at the instance list will show them all to anyone.

    • Otter
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      010 months 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.works
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        10 months 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)

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    10 months 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.