Click Communities, and from there you can sort Local (Communities that originate from your instance, for you it’s feddit.de!), or All, which includes most communities every public instance (like how I’m commenting to you from beehaw.org!)
From there, simply subscribe to what communities you like, even if they come from a different instance.
Same. This is the biggest downside by far for me.
There is!
Click Communities, and from there you can sort Local (Communities that originate from your instance, for you it’s feddit.de!), or All, which includes most communities every public instance (like how I’m commenting to you from beehaw.org!)
From there, simply subscribe to what communities you like, even if they come from a different instance.
Here’s a link for you to investigate.