How do people on ActivityPub instances initially find remote instances' stuff to vary their feeds? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by ALostInquirer@lemm.ee to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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Original clunky title: How do ActivityPub instances' people initially find remote instances' people/communities/channels/etc. to vary their feeds?

Given that an instance won't see remote instance's people and stuff to follow/subscribe to until someone there has found them and followed/subscribed...That's generally how ActivityPub works, isn't it?

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[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 5 points 1 day ago

many people just browse the /all/newest feed which is an aggregate of all subscriptions on the instance, and then you can subscribe from those posts

[-] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I'm asking about before anyone has subscribed to remote instances' stuff, how do they find the remote instances' stuff to begin with? Sorry, having trouble finding a clearer way to ask this without getting in the weeds

[-] rimu@piefed.social 14 points 1 day ago

New PieFed instances download a list of communities from an instance of your choice OR https://lemmyverse.net/ and automatically subscribe the admin to communities that match certain criteria (recently active, reasonable number of subscribers, etc).

Like this: https://join.piefed.social/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/piefed_community_import.png