Thanks for the FYI! I didn’t know it worked like that. How much influence does a single person have over what appears in the All feed? Let’s suppose I find an obscure community and subscribe, and I’m the first person from Lemmy.World to do so. Do posts from that community immediately start showing up in everyone’s All feeds? Or does it take a small army of us subscribing to the same community to make it really show up?
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As far as I'm aware, it only takes one person subscribing & making the instance aware of the community to start its posts showing up in the All feed. What then determines how much it shows up in the All feed is just how active the community is, if I'm not mistaken.
… and don’t forget kbin.social
Speaking of, in the menu in the top right of Lemmyverse, there's an option to view Kbin.social's magazines to help with that!
And in the spirit of not forgetting Kbin-related stuff, there's also several other Kbinstances around besides just .social for those curious!
Has kbin/Lemmy federation been fixed? I've looked at a few kbin communities from several different Lemmy instances, and it looks like the last available posts are from around a week ago.
Kbin has been a little patchy in terms of federation, some days it's absolutely fine and then others there seem to be big delays. That said I'm subbed to tons of magazines and have been interacting with them over the last couple hours, so seems to be ok at the moment.
For a lot of topics I find the magazine version(s) are a lot less active than the related Lemmy communities, so the ones you're looking at might just genuinely not have recent posts.
And fedia.io
Can you simply link to the kbin.social by typing their address/instance into lemmy.world's search, and the it becomes ...indexed? What is the word for that? Known to this instance in any case?
I have been doing exactly this for the last three days! The site can be slow to respond, so one has to be a bit patient at times.
Doesn't always work tho. Opening https://kbin.social/m/[email protected] for examples gives me a 404.
I'm not too familiar with Kbin, but does it work similarly in that if nobody there has searched for that community, it may not show up to subscribe to?
In other words, if you search its url: https://lemdro.id/c/android on Kbin, does it show up as a magazine to subscribe to/follow?
https://kbin.social/d/lemdro.id also gives a 404.
Just checked if lemdro.id possibly defederated kbin.social, but that's not the case. Could be that they have the same bug lemmy.ml had that blocks all requests from kbin instances.
@ElectroVagrant Yes it works like that on kbin, at least to an extend. I am not sure when exactly it gets available tho. Besides that, as other people said, there seems to be a federation bug at the moment which seems to cause this problem.
I read that the admin is fixing that soon.
So, I’m using lemm.ee and the Memmy app, when I click on a community in the link you posted, it shows me the community but I also have to log in to subscribe. Using the lemm.ee login doesn’t seem to work (I’m trying to sub to [email protected]). Should my account be in the lemmy.ml instance?
I'm not familiar with Memmy, so there may be some differences in navigating through it to subscribe to communities. If you can, you may want to try to copy the url or [email protected], or simply tap that previous link, to go to it from lemm.ee and subscribe.
You may also set your home instance in Lemmyverse by tapping the home icon & typing in lemm.ee, then the links should open in lemm.ee with you still signed in.
I’m receiving an error when I tap the link. This might be a Memmy issue. I did see they’ll add instance search in a future update, so that might do it. Thanks!
Most of the apps are having weird issues with opening links at the moment, which isn't helped by the fact that the link formats keep changing in subtle ways from one Lemmy release to another! It's fun to see all the swift progress but definitely makes it confusing for new lemmings.
Yeah, it can be frustrating, but I’m enjoying it more than that other site. The bean memes are hilarious.
If beanposting is to be our legacy, I'm ok with that.
Excellent advice.