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
e.g. !RedditMigration@kbin.social
or directly, https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration
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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done, thanks!
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That is so exciting, all of us playing together in here is such a cool concept.
“Good news everyone”
Just started adding subscriptions to kbin magazines and I think it’s starting to sink in that there is actually a decent-sized community growing here with a LOT more potential. The FediVerse being decentralized makes things feel a bit empty at first as it is now, but once you start hooking up to other platforms’ content it immediately feels twice as big. The trick over time will be cross-platform development efforts that make things look and feel more seamless.
Certainly in this case, because of how how much traffic kbin.social was getting and how long it was running unfederated.
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.
The federation/sync of content seem to be slow and work on the newest posts first.
First time I checked https://lemmy.world/c/Cats@kbin.social I only saw one post but now there are four.
And a whole lot more at the original: https://kbin.social/m/CatsYeah but I got to c/Vancouver for example but idk how to subscribe from kbin as I don’t see a button from that :/
Great news, thanks for the heads-up! Hopefully, though, we get some way to search both Lemmy communities and Kbin magazines through one browser.
Having to use browse.feddit.de and kbin.social/magazines separately doesn’t seem optimal.
yeah kbin and lemmy don’t seem to interact very well… having two separate hives that don’t talk to each other isn’t good for the fediverse, it creates unnecessary fragmentation :(
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
Ah ha, I was trying to do the short url (!utah@kbin.social), and that wasn’t working. Thanks!
I was doing the same thing! This is awesome. Thank you CodingAndCoffee!
Do you know how/if I can subscribe to their main page?
So, I am on lemmy.one and I go to search communities, and paste https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration and nothing comes up. Am I doing something wrong?
No, that’s the correct way to do it.
Hm, still nothing comes up if I search for the whole link.
But, if I search for just “RedditMigration”, it shows up.
- paste the full target url in search from lemmy, e.g.
Now I’m curious, can KBin users be mods on Lemmy instances, and can Lemmy users moderate Kbin magazines?
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Does this mean you are posting this on lemmy.world and I am reading it on kbin?
For those of us new to the fediverse, this is so exciting!
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Oh, i actually didn’t know Kbin (despite these posts lol) was being seen from Lemmy. Iirc when i first saw Kbin a few days ago, Kbin could see Lemmy but Lemmy couldn’t see Kbin. Ie it’s like it was a partial federation.
I’m curious on if that was accurate and if it was, what caused it in a technical sense. Given i’m a dev working on some ActivityPub stuff, i’m quite interested in it. Though i’ve not yet used the spec, clearly hah.
It was disabled until mere hours ago!
Wow this is neat!
How can I tell that a post is from another instance when browsing on Kbin? Just scanning the card for this thread, it isn’t apparent that it’s federated content.
If you have the top bar enabled, you can see it at the top on the right hand side.
Is looking at the username how you can tell where a post is coming from? I was so confused a while ago with posts saying “something something fellow Beehaw users!” and it was marked as (kbin.social) lol.
Total newb here, how does one collapse comment threads on the web browser version of kbin here? I’ve tried clicking around and don’t see some UI element or anything to indicate how to do such an action.
We don’t have it yet. Kbin is really new, and we kind of swamped the dev with our sudden influx. It’s on people’s wishlists though, so I’m sure we will have it in future!
Yup, exactly. Welcome to the fediverse!
Can we please call it literally anything else? I’m tired of “verses”.
Sure. Welcome to the federanus.
…which is now open for business!
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.
Glad to hear!
Had to try and it yep it is.
That’s looking at the bright side lol
What’s the easiest way to see and subscribe to kbin content while logged into lemmy.world? I have to know the name of the magazine I want and put the link in Search?
Yes, and that information is kind of in the sidebar, after replacing the initial
in e.g.@tech@kbin.socialwith a!for!tech@kbin.social. Just type that into search and follow. But would be real nice to have a browser extension to:- Pop up a “subscribe from my instance” button on external communities.
- Giving our own “Communities” top link the browse.feddit.de features so we don’t need to go there.
Yes exactly. I gave an example elsewhere in this thread but it’s getting pretty massive because we’re all quite excited. 😃
Nice to know that the community is growing.
When I click on the kbin links, it opens kbin. How do I see it while still on the lemmy site?
If a user hard-codes or pastes a kbin URL then it’s going to stay a kbin URL.
If a user goes to the effort of linking a community by relative name (which are different formats for kbin and lemmy respectively) then it’ll be a relative link that will keep you on your instance.
This is one of the rough edges that the whole community is going to need to sort out.
This is pretty darn neat :)
What’s the difference between kbin and Lemmy? I thought they were just different instances of the same open source project with different host names.
They are different software with a compatible protocol also used by a handful of other software including Mastodon. There are other kbin instances like fedia.io and there are hundreds of Lemmy instances.
Since the beginning of the Reddit blackout, kbin.social had been running in isolation due to server load. Now it is fully integrated with the rest of us (I’m not on kbin at the moment).
Different software. Kbin is written in PHP, Lemmy with Rust.
PHP?! Jesus Christ!
I know! Why would they do that to themselves!
hey don’t kink shame!
Honestly, this clears so much up for me :). It’s the only reasonable assumption, it’s gotta be a masochism thing haha.
Lemmy and kbin are completely different Software but they can talk to each other with the same protocol.
