I'm gonna post here instead of your post on kbin. I have questions! I already have an mbin account but stuff just doesn't matriculate like I am use to. How do I get magazines/communities to populate?
I tend to watch the "new communities" posts and subscribe from there. Also, I watch the "new" queue and when i spot a new community I sub from those posts.
you could also peruse the https://fedidb.org/software for popular fediverse servers to find 'popular' instances->communities to subscribe to
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