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Does Kbin move all the Fediverse Magazines / Community posts across? (kbin.social)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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So I seem to have found smaller Magazines / Communities that haven't been on Kbin before and after finding them they seem to have no posts but after looking through Lemmy it seems they do have posts. Does it take time for Lemmy to add all the posts or is it only new posts that will come across?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The biggest downside along with not being able to search for non subscribed groups from another instances. Terrible design decision

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

One really bad and confusing thing about kbin is there are two searches. There is one at the Magazine list and another behind the magnifying glass.

The "magazines" only shows communities that someone else on this instance has already subscribed to. So if you search there for something mainstream then chances are you'll find it. But something niche from a small server, like [email protected] won't show up as no one from here has subscribed to it before so kbin.social doesn't know about it.

The magnifying glass search is the way to subscribe to a community that kbin doesn't know about yet. If you put in [email protected] into the search (NB, no ! on the start, like lemmy does it) then you'll be subscribed to it straight away and from then on it'll show up in the Community List for everyone.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@kglitch Yeah I had to work this out, it's an annoying way for it to work but gladly it just means I'll have to do it once to the ones I want to follow but it means that you have to go externally to find these smaller Magazines / Communities.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

@kglitch Thanks for the link, that will come in handy

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

@kglitch Thank you, I'll have to use this to find communities I'd like to use on Kbin, sad that it has to come to that but everything else on Kbin is amazing from what I've experienced so far.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

@Prootje Yeah I really do hope they fix that in the future as I would like to know what people might have created on other things than Kbin