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Of the 3 subscription bootstrappers listed in this thread, lemmony is by far the worst of them because it subscribes to EVERYTHING by default.
Lcs forces you to pick a number of communities to subscribe to, and the other one has default threshold heuristics that pick a limited number of active communities. Lemmony signs you up for the entire firehose of the threadiverse which both makes instances using it pretty bad fediverse citizens in terms of generating a 50x-100x the federation load of a "normal" single-user instance that subs maybe a hundred communities... and also exposes novice single-user instance owners to legal liability by subbing all the small under-moderated communities full of questionably illegal stuff.
I would recommend one of the better designed tools, and to review the resulting subscription list manually to ensure you're not signing up for some sketchy stuff.
Yeah, I let it run by night and saw what I did today. You are totally right, I will probably need to clean up a few things.
I'm not experienced at cleanup, and I don't think lemmony offers an undo. But if you used an account other than your primary... I think deleting that account will nuke its subs and you can start over. If I'm wrong, this may leave a bunch of orphaned subs with no user and no way to write an api-script to unsub.
In either case, I do recommend doing your automated subs on a different account and viewing them in all rather than directly subbing your main account to all that junk. It definitely give you more options for cleanup.
Awesome feature. It's great to see you thoughtfully trying to balance the community discovery problem with the federation overhead caused by mass subscription.
While I continue to favor and recommend manual subscription, I've bookmarked lsb and lcs to recommend to folks looking for automated approaches. I think they're looking pretty good right now and seeing you proactively address feedback gives me faith that they'll get even better.
I created a bot account for this, so all green on that front, will experiment with it, thanks!