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Written by ALostInquirer@lemm.ee on 2024-12-16 at 23:27

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

https://lemm.ee/post/49962518

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Written by hendrik on 2024-12-16 at 23:36

https://lemmyverse.net/communities

Or copying subscriptions from another (old) account someplace else.

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Written by PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat on 2024-12-16 at 23:47

!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.

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Written by Tamlyn on 2024-12-16 at 23:52

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.

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Written by originalucifer on 2024-12-17 at 00:07

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

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Written by ALostInquirer@lemm.ee on 2024-12-17 at 00:13

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

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Written by Rimu on 2024-12-17 at 00:31

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

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Written by Blaze (he/him) on 2024-12-17 at 02:02

Impressive

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Written by Kichae@lemmy.ca on 2024-12-17 at 00:49

Global feed. ‘All’ on Lemmy, ‘Federated timeline’ on Mastodon, etc.

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Written by MBM@lemmings.world on 2024-12-17 at 12:09

“Trolling big instances” sounds bad but I’m guessing that’s a typo/fishing metaphor. Or maybe someone read your tip as “go through your instance’s All feed” instead of “go through some other instance’s All feed and copy links”.

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Written by OpenStars on 2024-12-17 at 13:40

If you are talking about some brand new instance that you just created, you can construct a URL with the community name to find it the first time, then someone from your instance needs to be the first to subscribe/join it. After that, someone just needs to search for it using its name from the Communities link at the top of your instance homepage - making sure that All rather than Local is selected at the top.

PieFed will pull in old posts, I think Lemmy won't, but either way the old comments and votes are a lost cause, however newer ones (after possibly a bit of a delay, maybe 24 hours unless there's a larger backlog of things to sync) will automatically sync up from then on (additional caveats exist like locked/removed posts).

So for example to get to the !AskUSA@discuss.online community, you'd go to https://yourinstanceurlhere/c/AskUSA@discuss.online and join (e.g. https://lemm.ee/c/AskUSA@discuss.online is a functional link).

Caveat: the instance (Discuss.Online in the aforementioned example) must already be federated with, which you should see in the https://yourinstanceurlhere/instances, and not also defederated with (lemm.ee barely defederates from anything, but most instances have a much more substantial list of spammers and gore and bad-faith instances that they curate so their users don't have to do so individually). An easy way to get there: go to homepage, scroll all the way down and click Instances; to see the defederated list click the Blocked Instances tab at the top of that.

But from your current instance lemm.ee, all of this has almost certainly been done for you, as iirc it is the #3 largest instance across the entire Fediverse. Just make sure that searching the Communities list is set to All rather than Local!:-)

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Written by Hanrahan on 2024-12-25 at 03:56

ActivityPub or Lemmy ? Mastodon and use hastags and theres plenty out there, I’ve never even browsed the local feed of my Mastodon Instance. Because of ActivityPub there can be some interaction with Lemmy that way as well

I just browse All on Lemmy and that leads to occasional small local communities on other instances.of interest.

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