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There are 2 ways to fetch new communities your instance hasn't seen before, which are also talked about in the join-lemmy.org docs
https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/01-getting-started.html#following-communities
You can fetch new communities by searching for its identifier, clicking on an identifier or directly entering it into the URL bar.
Community identifiers look like this:
!<community name>@<domain.tld>For example: !asklemmy@lemmy.world
Say you found a new community in sopuli.xyz named cats, you can input the full URL for it directly into your instance's search bar.
e.g. an URL: https://sopuli.xyz/c/cats (I don't know if this is a real community or not, just as an example)
The fedecan guide is also good:
https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/for-users/how-to-find-communities
https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/for-users/how-to-open-in-my-instance
I am also surprised that you didn't already know this by now. You have been here for a year.
Can't you also just use the search tool? The names and descriptions of all communities on an instance are known to all instances that are federated with it, aren't they?
If you want to find a community about adhd, you write "adhd" on the search (click "communities" as the tab when searching!). It shows every community that has "adhd" in their name. You then subscribe to a community and it starts showing in the All of everyone on your instance.
Yes. That seems to be the case in Piefed as Blaze said. The one I was responding to uses Lemmy.
I've been doing the same on Lemmy (sopuli.xyz), as well.
I don't know if sopuli.xyz has a custom patch or they use lemmy-federate.net, but that is not a normal feature of Lemmy just yet.
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2951
Sopuli is an old, reliable and established instance, thanks to its usebase and lemmy-federate, you can expect 99% of the active communities to be federated there
Yes. But Lemmy itself does not federate new communities itself just yet.