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.
How to run manually and in docker
is included in the repo.
Let me know if there’s anything anyone needs it to do and I’ll see if I can fit it in. I’m going to work on a “purge old posts that are unsaved and not commented on by local users” first, since small instances are sure to run out of disk space.
You could always build the image on another computer and import it since building anything takes forever on a pi.