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?
!newcommunities@lemmy.world is a very common one. I’ll put a plug also for !communities@ponder.cat. I also tend to look at the lists of communities from “good” instances and subscribe en masse to a bunch of them all at once if I like the vibe of the instance overall.
You are right that there really isn’t as good a way as there “should” be, maybe, but that’s what people do and it seems to work okay.
https://lemmyverse.net/communities
Or copying subscriptions from another (old) account someplace else.
besides the communities or websites to find communities, as other have already posted. Some instances and communities add their community to https://lemmy-federate.com/. A project using a bot that initaly joins a community from different instances, so you are able so find them easier.
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
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
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
Impressive
well, i use a bot to pre-subscribe my instance to all new advertised communities in the places others users have already mentioned.
Just surf along the information superhighway and keep an eye out for tasty links. You’ll soon get the hang of it. Here’s one place to start: https://mastodon.social/public/remote
peruse all and block communities you have zero interest in while subscribing to things you like. Eventually to check your subscriptions first and when caught up you check all to see if anything new catches your eye.
Global feed. ‘All’ on Lemmy, ‘Federated timeline’ on Mastodon, etc., for established instances.
Trolling big instances and copying account URLs on clean instances.
Edit: Wanna tell me what’s wrong with that? Or are we just passive-aggressive and not worth talking to?
