Ah, nice. It auto-fetches?
Discussion
yes, and it does it initially when the database is empty when you set an owner, according to what you define for the spider. it doesn't become responsive until it has the follow lists of owner and follows, and the mute list of the owner, which functions as the relay blacklist (which determines who can store events)
the rest of the spidering happens in the background at first start, and is repeated hourly to update the events you tell the spider to spider.