Hello
I am happy on this instance and 2 other federated instances that take good care of the culture by not federating with some other instances.
Yet sometimes I wonder what the “firehose of trash” would be like if I would see really everything and am wondering if there is a “catch all” Instance that is not limiting anything at all?
I would like to take a peek down the abyss for once.
It’s not enough to be federated with an instance in order for the content to pour in. Someone on your instance also needs to be subscribed to the individual communities.
I have a bot account that regularly polls the top posts on the five largest instances. If it notices any post from communities that it is not already subscribed to it does so, pulling all the content from that point forward. Even after doing to this for weeks I’m still only pulling about 800 communities and the signal to noise ratio is still good.
Could you link the bot repo? I was thinking of self-hosting but wasn’t sure because I didn’t want to only see subscribed content.
Feel like sharing the bot code? I’ve been thinking of setting up something similar
