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PSA: Lemmy Explorer now supports proper linking for non-kbin federated Communities! (kbin.social)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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You can now use Lemmy Explorer to easily look up Communities and generate kbin-friendly links!

  1. Go to https://lemmyverse.net/

  2. Click on "Communities" on top center

  3. Click on the house button on top right, and enter "kbin.social" as your instance (or any other kbin instance you may be using)

  4. Toggle switch below on for "Instance links use /m/" (yellow)

  5. Browse, search, and sort as you wish

  6. All links will be in the in the https://kbin.social/m/[email protected] format :)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hey, thanks for the tip. If I click on one of the links, and go to, for example:
https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]

But it says "404 Not Found" what does that mean? Is it just lag, or are we defederated from them, or ...?

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

Yeah, I'm getting the same thing on some other communities.

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

I get the same from anything but kbin.social communities, including lemmy.world, so I don’t think it’s a lack federation.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Some random items will work, and some instances seem to work better than others. I have a pretty good track record from communities on sopuli.xyz and I've managed to subscribe to a few from lemmy.world but it is probably just chance. I haven't been able to get a single community from sh.itjust.works to load despite seeing their users all over the place, federation is obviously working at least somewhat.

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

Yeah, arkisuomi on sopuli.xyz hasn't worked, but Suomi and a few others have. kbin.social/m/arkisuomi/@sopuli.xyz results in 404. I guess it hasn't been pushed to kbin for some reason. And I obviously can't subscribe

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

Brilliant, thank you very much. That makes finding and subscribing to new communities so easy :-)