Yeah. There’s no wildcard call. One thing you could do to script it would be pull JSONs from https://data.lemmyverse.net - use one for the initial effort, then subsequent ones to track new communities. You’d definitely want to filter it - as you’ve noticed the vast majority of that 30k are dead or spam or something you wouldn’t want for one reason or another (e.g. communities from instances you’ve defederated from).

As for what bots do, it depends on how they were programmed I suppose. There’s a bonkers one on https://leaf.dance that just seems to crawl comments and subscribe to any ! links it finds, but there are others (I can’t remember their names) where it’s more of a manual job (the mods of a community submit the details to it).

is it in reality not “all” but only “all posts that at least one user of this instance is subscribed to”?

Exactly this, yes. Not literally ‘all’ (a brand new instance would have nothing in its All feed). This is what was meant by ‘partial data set’ - everything for a subscribed community (from the moment it was subscribed to), but nothing for a community that no-one’s subscribed to.

Some instances run bots to populated their All feed more than what would happen naturally (with the idea being that the bot unsubscribes when a human does)

I just looked at Wookiepedia and it doesn’t list Cereans as being Monotremes, but my main takeaway is ‘Jesus Christ what a terrible website’.

Well now I’m thinking about this guy’s mother (specifically how long the ‘crowning’ process must’ve been whilst she was giving birth)

This is from ‘Shaun’ btw, who I mostly associate with videos criticising JK Rowling and her controversial friends.

It’s worth the watch, imo (though I can’t claim to be massively informed about the subject, so I have nothing to refute what he is saying). From what I remember, the gist of the video is that Israel is colonial power in a post-colonial world.

I bought the Last of Us 2 upgrade, so I can’t really criticise anyone buying this, but I’ve played this game to it’s absolute death - had every conversation, completed every mission, even played through on the hardest difficulty to get all the trophies - so I can’t imagine ever playing it again. It’s Guerrilla Games’ own fault - if they hadn’t made it so good, they could have had an extra tenner from me.

And, also unfortunately, he apparently has some fans here based on the downvotes.

Maybe, but every video (or any animated format, really), gets downvoted on Lemmy. At the minute, this vid has the same number of downvotes as ‘Why Aren’t Swing Wing Aircraft Made Any More?’. A link to a remote site, that’s known for serving ads and for being a pain to get back from on mobile, is going to attract downvotes. Some of it depends on how engaging (or not) various front-ends make this kind of content - a comparison between what anyone using lemmy-ui sees and what I see:

Chris Sawyer: I programmed Rollercoaster Tycoon in x86 assembly!
This guy: pfft, what a amateur

This is why I always say ‘thanks’ to GPT when we’ve finished chatting.

Ha ha. This is like seeing Predators at a Disney theme park (I’ve no idea if they own the franchise - they probably do).

I’ll admit to assuming he must be kind of a cool nerd for naming some of his SpaceX things after Culture ships (from Iain M. Banks’ novels), but now I feel sullied by association from having enjoyed the same books.

That’s kinda funny, in a way - unsophisticated prevention for an unsophisticated attack.

Everyone trying to use the Internet normally suffers due to this kind of stuff.

It seems to be quite a lot for the server it’s hosted on though (which is not the snappiest). There are, of course, still areas in the world where - for one reason or another - people still are effectively on dial-up speed-wise.

Buster should turn their attention to the size of the images uploaded to servers like this: 1.1M is arguably overkill for this one.

Feels more like a demand than a request.

It probably is. I’d tried Mastodon but found myself not going back. Phanpy re-invigorated my interest in it.

Decades ago, my school’s drug info was similar: every drug had a single entry (‘euphoria’) in the Pros column and a massive list (ending with death) for the Cons column.

The meme is riffing on the criticism that Star Wars has become too self-referential. That modern Star Wars are inspired only by earlier iterations of Star Wars, rather than the more diverse list of inspirations for the original film. It’s not a comment on the quality of the PT.

Sorry. It’s from me being too online. Must. Put. Phone. Down.

It was two, fwiw. They were also upvoted, and engaged with (which is what the trolls want, of course). I shouldn’t have made that comment - it’s a sign that I’ve been on my phone too much this morning. I’ll amend it, and then go out for a walk or something.