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?
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.