Just search from here and it will show you communities across all federated kbin and Lemmy instances.
this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2023
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is federation fully functional yet? I know I was trying to access some magazines on other instances but they weren't coming up (even when properly using the name). but I haven't checked it today.
I am not sure if it is fully functional but the magazines on beehaw and lemmy .world that I have just subscribed to today are showing up in my kbin feed.
yeah there's a handful of beehaw and lemmy world magazines that are on here already, presumably before the federation went down. so all the posts in them are like 6 days old lol. there's been a trickle of posts in and out it seems with particular instances, but it's a gamble whether it happens.
might be more open today? I haven't checked.
I’m trying to subscribe to [email protected] and can’t seem to get it to show in search results, so it’s not just you.
Interesting. I can't get that one to work either. Magazines are case sensitive so could that be the issue? Either in the magazine name or the instance?
Just gave that a try and no luck, but I appreciate the suggestion! I think Ernest mentioned that he’d set up the bones for federation before heading to bed, so my guess is just that this is something that will be coming soon but maybe doesn’t work quite yet. No big, I’ll just set a reminder to check in a week or two 😁
Yes, federation is fully working now. I'm writing from jerboa on Lemmy.world.
not sure "fully" is the right word (some testing with fedia seems that fedia and kbin.social aren't exactly sharing) but lemmy.world people and beehaw people seem to be posting and interacting fine.
I think the federation is working now, but the sync is behind. It seems like newer communities out there have just not been added yet, where some others from those same instances will show up.
Yeah federation is definitely working now as I've had some chats with other instances. I think you're right about the syncing thing though.
Same formatting advice applies when searching for Lemmy communities via Mastodon btw, for any folks that may be using a mix of Kbin/Mastodon.
Search for [community]@[instance] to find them, albeit personally I'd not recommend following communities via Mastodon, as their formatting differences are enough that they don't display as clearly there. Instead I'd recommend copying the post/comment urls and commenting/replying with your Mastodon account, should that be what you want to do.
On KBin, if you click “more” on a KBin post you can copy the “fediverse URL” of that post.
- Fediverse:
https://lemmy.world/comment/192266 - “Normal”:
https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/19884/For-those-who-might-not-know-Here-is-the-way#entry-comment-79559
Not sure about on Lemmy though. TBH, I thought this post was on KBin before I got into the details…
Thanks for the good advice. I was wondering about Mastodon.
Yeah I am not able to search for communities. I tried adding ! in front (!<name>@<instance>) but that didn't seem to work
Try removing the ! and just do <name>@<instance> Try this one as a test [email protected]
Seems like this is working now! I had tried this before as well but didn't work... Even when I come back after like 30mins. Maybe it's just a bug
Thank you so much for this! I couldn’t figure out why I my searches for communities weren’t working and it was driving me crazy.