Piefed has a couple of different ways to populate a new server. Pulling lemmyverse data and subscribing to comms that way, or scanning a remote Lemmy/mbin/pieces server for comms. You can look at that code if you want inspiration.

I don’t think that’s supported at the moment, but you could add a Feature Request issue on codeberg asking for it

Usually Lemmy/piefed does a pull of the most recent 50 posts when the follow first happens. Then new posts come in over time via federation.

If you’re not getting /any/ new posts it may be that the federation is not working. If some communities gets posts more than others then it’s probably a difference in activity levels in the communities.

Aside from the make-the-world-a-better-place stuff, I’ve always wanted to have the space/time to make my own holograms.

I have this idea for claymation+lasers+holograms to make little stop motion films, but as holograms.

I don’t know if it’s possible, but if like to play with the tech and find out

That’s basically right yeah. Newly followed communities will have some backfill, like 50 posts I think, but no massive get-the-while-history automation exists.

The more active communities add content fairly quickly

Joe Versus The Volcano.

Also another vote for The Princess Bride

Riveting!

I had a friend in high school who did the hand drawing exercise, it does work. He got really good at drawing hands.

thats a good bet yeah.

I loved my breadmaker back in the day. I’m in an apartment these days though, so no room for a new one after the last one broke.

Fair. I don’t do audio stuff so I’ll take your word for it.

Agreed. A Virtual Machine is also an option. That’s how I got started, running fedora vms on my windows laptop ten+ years ago.

I have a todo app and have set up recurring reminders for daily/weekly/monthly tasks.

Daily for like dishes/trash/meals
Weekly for laundry/groceries/etc
Monthly for budgeting/deeper cleaning

I don’t stress if I miss one (or many,lol) but at least having them in the app means I have the list handy already when I realize I should check it, and not be wondering “what was that once a month thing I meant to do…?”

Hell yeah! Now that is going to loop in my head for the rest of the day…

Yeah it’s like ‘moderated_communities’ or something. On most pages already. Just getting the extra view option to show up in the UI, and only when the current_user is a moderator of anything that will take some tweaking. Doable, though yes.

I looked at the codeberge issue, ty for the screenshot!

Fair. I’ve not modded Lemmy communities. Is it just basically a view filter like all/local/subscribed on the front page?

That would probably not be too hard to add

Subbed! And voted in all the polls 😎

You can also make a private feed of just the communities you mod and see them all together that way. Not sure if that would do what you want, but it’s a ln option for now

Yeah, I did that, plus the videos, plus just running a local test instance and tweaking things.

The app/activity pub code is probably the most complex to follow. Most of the rest is easier to get your head around.

Feel free to ping me if you have questions. Or join the matrix channels, they are pretty lively too.