This stuff should be automated and let the back end automation handle this stuff for less technically inclined folks.
this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2023
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It will be. There are a lot of bugs and issues right now.
Keep your pants on... This patform had maybe 12k users less than a month ago. There's gonna be some growing pains.
Nah dawg these pants stay off #dicksout
#HarambeNeverForget
You can also search for it in the communities (browser only), just sort by All.
Thanks for sharing that!
Could you please add a “Why YSK:”? It’s rule #2. It's also helpful for readability, and informs readers about the importance of the content. Thank you. :)
Done, thank you!
This was not working for me and I finally figured out why. I was using the search under "Communities" and not the general search in the upper right. It is counter-intuitive that the communities search won't find unfederated communities while the general search will, but that is how it works.
That you all for this post. It did ultimately get me where I needed to be.
They show up fine in the communities search for me. https://i.imgur.com/iHO4wIP.png
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There really needs to be a Lemmy/Kbin version of Graze for Mastodon
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Dear sweet baby Jesus, this solves so many problems I had with lemmy. Now I've got "subreddits", lemmywinks, lemmstwrs?
sublemmies... wait no it starts with c... clublemmits?
Wow you posted this right as I was looking for how to do it, lol. Thanks!
Anyone know how to do this the other way around? Subscribing to lemmy communities from kbin?
edit: it seems to work the same way. you just have to search for the community in kbin first or otherwise it will show a 404.
i did this with a couple magazines and they're sitting as 'subscribe pending'. how long does that usually take?
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I've been trying to get this to work for someone (I'm on kbin, they're on lemmy) but I just get a 404 error. The magazine is kbin.social/m/LucidDreaming, so following your guide I should try https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected], correct? Any idea what's going wrong?
Have them go to search, make sure everything is searching all, and have them put https://kbin.social/m/LucidDreaming as the search query.
There’s a solid chance they won’t be able to see anything posted prior to when they subscribe, but at least that will make the community federate with that person’s Lemmy instance.
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I think these instructions only work for communities someone on your instance has already subscribed to. Instead, try going https://lemmy.world/search and entering the full URL for the community ( https://kbin.social/m/LucidDreaming ). It'll spin for a little longer than usual but it should show up in the search results.
Edit to add: The community will probably appear empty, however... new posts will show up, but anything from before the you subscribed probably won't. If you want to reply to a particular comment, though, you can make it show up by searching for its full URL.
I was about to reply saying that the search didn't work, that I could only see two comments I made in kbin.social sharing the link, but then I pressed the next button and there was a one line link to the community on the next page. Really weird formatting, but that did it! Thanks a lot! :)
EDIT: @cdiv So it turns out that this worked for lemmy.world but not for sh.itjust.works. When I search there I only see comments where people have mentioned the link, but no actual link to the community. This is so weird and confusing lol
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I had the same problem. 404 and not appearing in the communities search. I gave it a day or so, and it worked. Maybe its some kind of syncing delay between instances.
Hello again, I see there are still issues with your community, unfortunately. Hopefully someone here can help!
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Thanks, so kbin is a fediverse server that is NOT lemmy, right? Can we see it if we search communities?
Yes.
Really? in the browser I've had reasonable luck just searching the magazine Uri directly in my Lemmy instance.
No need to get the lemmy.world version.
Honestly. I find I almost never get success searching for random kbin and Lemmy communities/magazines in Jerboa - Bowser is king of Lemmy search.
Saving for later (is there a better way?)
I started on lemmy.world, but I really like the look and layout of kbin. How would I go about bringing the lemmy.world subs over to kbin?
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Thanks 👍
Great info!
Thank you. I just got here and this is super useful!
Good stuff, I've been wondering about this since joining this morning. thanks for the write up.
I'm not having much luck finding smaller kbin magazines on lemmy. Hope things improve a bit
Probably the magazine has to be federated first - and so it has to be searched from the instance. I'll provide example using magazine AskKbin and assuming you're using browser version of Lemmy. The local adress for magazine is https://kbin.social/m/AskKbin
Go to your Lemmy and press search button. Search for the magazine using the local adress of the magazine (https://kbin.social/m/AskKbin). Once searched, it should start federating and you can subscribe to it. You should be able to easily subscribe to the magazine as well - as it is going to appear as community in search results. Similiarly you would initialte federation with communities from other instances of lemmy, if they aren't federated yet
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Tried all the tricks in this thread, but just get 404 or zero results when searching.
I didn't even know that you can connect both platforms. Gonna try it later, thank you.
Comment to save this since I don't know how to save posts on kbin (or if it's even possible yet?)
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Still the same issue I've been dealing with.
On my personal instance, not Lemmy world, I am able to search for and find kbin magazines, for an example https://kbin.social/m/tech
However, when I go to https://myinstance/c/[email protected] and hit subscribe it leaves me subscribe pending no matter how long I wait. Even canceling and clicking it again multiple times never gets me anywhere.
I ran into a helpful post about that recently. It seems that sometimes it can take a while for the a subscription to be processed. If you end up with the yellow "pending" it often stays that way. If you click on pending to cancel it, and try subscribing again it is more likely to go through. Annoying, but true.
Also, it may be superstition on my part, but if I click subscribe and just let that tab sit for a while I a more likely to eventually get a "joined" response while if I refresh it and get "pending" I'm stuck with that.
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