Finding communities to join can be hard because each fediverse server only knows about a community after someone has joined it before. It’s a chicken and egg problem. To solve this, PieFed comes with eggs included!
Techy details: a local copy of https://data.lemmyverse.net/data/community.full.json is regularly updated, inactive and nsfw communities removed and then the resulting shortlist is used to suggest search results to people when adding a remote community.
Check out the video for a quick demo.
Massive props to @JollyDevelopment@piefed.social for their work on this feature!
FYI for any fellow lemmy admins here - you can enroll your instance into lemmy-federate.com with a bot account that you make which will do much the same. It will subscribe to new and unknown (to your instance) communities and share your communities to everyone else’s instances!
Edit: apparently this also supports PieFed too!