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

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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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[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 13 points 1 week ago

!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.