Is there a way for an instance to only fetch a list of federated communities? I understand that automatically fetching all content from all linked instances would overload server resources. Although I wish federated communities could be listed in the Communities page without necessarily fetching their content.

Discovering federated communities could be smoother and more intuitive, as this user recently expressed. It could be also less time-consuming, since the current method usually requires visiting every linked instance first.

I was more thinking it could limit discovery of new federated communities. I don’t know about anyone else, but a big way I discover communities both here and on Reddit is through the front page, cross posts, and sometimes even user profiles.