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YSK that kbin.social is now federating, adding hundreds of communities and ~26k more users content - Lemmy.world (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by dragontamer to c/bestoflemmy

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This "You Should Know" post is top of ~June, for good reason. This post announced the kbin.social Federation/compatibility with Lemmy.

A huge amount of test-posts from a wide-variety of instances came in to test the new federation abilities (including from kbin.social, one of the biggest kbin communities).

I think this post shows the hope that over the long-term, we can get federation across the larger fediverse. I don't know if Mastodon is in the works, but these kinds of posts give hope.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

How do lemmings subscribe to https://kbin.social/magazines?

I tried searching for [email protected] but no results.

Edit: Thanks for the replies! I could find and subscribe to the magazine using this search query:

https://kbin.social/m/science

[–] dragontamer 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Try going to /c/[email protected] and clicking the subscribe button there.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

404: couldnt_find_community

Probably because I'm from a small instance and none of my fellow lemmings has discovered it yet. Though even for big instances, someone has to be the first. So how to discover magazines?

[–] dragontamer 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I finally remember where I heard of this problem.

https://lemmy.world/c/newcommunities

A: At least one user in an instance needs to search for a community before it gets fetched. Searching for the community will bring it into the instance and it will fetch a few of the most recent posts without comments. If a user is subscribed to a community, then all of the future posts and interactions are now in-sync.

I did do a search over on your instance lemmy.click, but it didn't work either. Very curious. I'm going to have to research how smaller communities import kbin.social magazines more reliably. Its probably less of an issue on Lemmy.world because we're bigger and someone else did the right process already (whatever... that process was).

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

Does searching for the URL https://kbin.social/m/science work? That's how I've had to do it the other way around to subscribe to Lemmy communities that hadn't federated yet.

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

They're "magazines" at kbin, so:

https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration

for example.

I don't think there's a "science" magazine at kbin, which is fine. Also of note, the magazine name is currently case sensitive, but I know it's on the list of improvements to make that case insensitive.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Kbin doesn't use the '!'

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

The UI I've found is still getting adjusted, but there's a subscribe button on mobile that's hidden behind the kbin logo and then the sidebar will open up and there's a subscribe button in there.

I'm mostly just browsing /all for now but streamlining the UI/UX looks like it's on the agenda to help new people find content

[–] dragontamer 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The poster you're talking to is from lemmy.click. The GUI looks completely from their point of view.

Here's a full web-link to what @[email protected] sees: https://lemmy.click/comment/145357

So life is a bit difficult since we're all on different servers, and each server will have its own bugs with federation. But all in all, we're able to communicate and try to work things out.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

This is the first time I've realized that comments are federated. I absolutely thought that the comments will not be shared across, and only the content would be. Woah.
Also that lemmy.click site has some nice UI