https://github.com/jheidecker/lemmony

This will take care of the other commenters point about having to manually subscribe to everything. I just had it pull the top 500 communities from the top two instances and I’m fine…

Woohoo!

I don’t get how we can block. I long press anything and I get a browser menu…

EDIT: Figured it out!

I think it would be beneficial to start enforcing not using that setting. Don’t receive posts from anyone that has unspecified at the server.

I’m not sure either understand the fact Lemmy has language settings that aren’t apparently used. Seems this can be solved by just setting the language to “English” for instance…

The problem is you lose the ability to encounter new communities by browsing “All”. And since I’m the only user on my instance I will never discover any communities that I don’t manually add or find on third-party websites not to mention that process of using those websites is cumbersome and tedious…

I added the top few thousand communities and the server runs absolutely fine. :)

These are the comments that make Lemmy great.

Voat was a replica of Reddit in design. One centralized server. We would have ended up in the same crappy place even if that were a success because at some point they would have wanted to monetize it also.

You have to do some reading and learn about the technology behind Lemmy and federation to understand.