It wouldn't be pulling in data yet from other instances, but it would enable seeing that their communities were out there so you could then tell your server you'd like to subscribe/follow/etc. their community/channel/account.

Tbh despite having been around the fediverse for awhile, I'm not sure how else ActivityPub servers were supposed to have these different things found to start with.

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[–] andrew_s@piefed.social 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

This feels like an impossible combination, where your local instance doesn't have data from other instances, but also knows that they are out there. When a user searches their instance for something, the answer comes from local storage, in the same way that google responds by looking at its local cache of a webpage, not the webpage itself.

[–] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

That's kind of what I was thinking may be the case, but I'm not sure if I'm asking this well enough or if I may be misunderstanding ActivityPub.

It's not clear to me how, without communication/searching outside of an ActivityPub instance, it would ever find other ActivityPub instances to connect to and communicate with.

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