2y ago

YSK that kbin.social is now federating, adding hundreds of communities and ~26k more users content

Because they don't get listed by browse.feddit.de you'll want to browse https://kbin.social/magazines to browse "magazines", which is what they call communities

Why YSK: Federation literally just synched up thanks to the tireless efforts by @ernest@kbin.social over the past few days.

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Now I'm curious, can KBin users be mods on Lemmy instances, and can Lemmy users moderate Kbin magazines?

@CodingAndCoffee So nice to be able to comment on this straight from Mastodon, too. Though it's weird that the existing comments don't show up on Mastodon when I paste the URL to this post in my search box (t)here.

I tried joining some kbin magazines from here (E.G: https://lemmy.world/c/Aquariums@kbin.social and https://lemmy.world/c/houseplants@kbin.social ). It did work but I'm unable to see any post from those communities. Instead the one you linked ( https://lemmy.world/c/RedditMigration@kbin.social ) works perfectly (even for newest posts/comments). Is there any fix ? EDIT: To add more troubleshooting info, It doesn't say pending, it correctly says "joined" but still no posts.

hello. can confirm. I'm on kbin.social right now and seeing this thread. I'm not sure federating is entirely up just yet but it's working a lot better/faster than it was these past few days. Definitely seeing an influx of beehaw and lemmy world users and posts :)
- Unfortunately, beehaw has decided that they don't like this whole "federation" thing. Hopefully we'll see replacements for their communities in the coming days.
  
  Kbin users weren't defederated from them so we can still see and post in their communities.

Jerboa seems to crash when clicking links with the ! point but I can do it from the desktop browser. This is great!
- Smoothest crash ever tho!
  
  This is being worked on on the Jerboa github. Sounds like it'll be addressed or at least mostly addressed in the next release.

@CodingAndCoffee@lemmy.world replying to myself from mastodon!
- How…? I think my head just exploded. 🤯
  
  What is a reddit thread if not a root tweet with a bunch of replies (and replies to the replies) formatted in a way that you see the organization of the replies?

This is great but I am still unable to search for communities in kbin. At least I tried !politics@kbin.social and !opensource@kbin.social a few time the last few minutes but still no result.
- I haven't been able to join Kbin magazines by searching in the !magazine@instance format, but when I just paste the URL from Kbin into the search I've been able to add them that way.

My home Lemmy doesn't seem to be able to find communities on kbin, when I search for something like !tech@kbin.social it just never resolves. :-/
- Try pasting the browser url as it is in kbin, instead of using the Lemmy syntax. I know it's goofy but it works.
  
  Neither seems to work for me, maybe federation is overloaded with the sudden influx? I'll report back if it ends up working.

So anyway to make the app Jerboa work with kbin?
- I'm replying to this on Jerboa right now, so I would assume there's a way, yeah.
  
  But you're using a Lemmy account to post, I'm confused...?

So I'm looking for a magazine that I know is on kbin, that I want to subscribe from here. I've tried typing in the magazine name in the address bar (lemmy.world/c/Utah@kbin.social), I've tried searching in the "communities" search, and I'm just not finding it and getting errors. Direct linking works, but I then I can only subscribe if I have an account on kbin. Help?
- paste the full target url in search from lemmy, e.g. https://kbin.social/m/Utah
  now it's available at !Utah@kbin.social
  
  Do you know how/if I can subscribe to their main page?

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