EDIT: Sorry I did not make this clear. I am not presenting this as a techincal problem for admins to solve, but as a community problem. The kbin.social community as the larger instance is not seeking out communities from the smaller instances.
When searching for magazines (communities) the results almost always show either kbin.social or one of the major Lemmy instances.
I can pull the domains like https://kbin.social/d/fedia.io but when i try to pull a community like https://kbin.social/m/[email protected] I get a 404 error.
To compound the problem lemmy communities are much more discoverable because they are listed on https://browse.feddit.de/. So even kbin users are largely interacting more through lemmy communities.
As far as I know there is no such tool to browse or search communities across all kbin instances. Does anyone know if the lemmy browser can include kbin instances?
Fedia.io, the largest other kbin instance seems to have lots of communities on the vine because we largely do not interact with them. But they see the rest of the fediverse like we do.
If we want other instances to grow like kbin.social has we probably need to resolve this disconnect between kbin communities.
https://kbin.fediverse.observer/list
Try https://kbin.social/search?q=boardgames%40fedia.io I just trigged it to federate into kbin.social for you
For lemmy federated communities you can trigger them by pasting the full https:// url in. For pulling in other kbin communities you want to use @[email protected] for the search.
Reminder that you will only see new content, going forward from the time the first user searched on your instance for the same community
Thank you, that did it!!!