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Lemmy compatibility (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Datsourdo@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social

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I've noticed a minor issue when trying to subscribe to a Lemmy community. On the Lemmy instance, the link format for a Community starts with an exclamation mark ("!"), instead of the "@" used here and across other services like Mastodon.

Copy/pasting the community to the search bar doesn't work until I manually change the "!" to an "@". Subscribing to things on other instances is already somewhat confusing for new users, this makes it even worse.

Suggestion: if the "!" doesn't work, automatically try "@" behind the scenes.

As a side note, Lemmy instances have a helpful message telling you exactly how to subscribe to something from a different service or instance. I'd suggest putting a similar message in the Magazine sidebar along with the Magazine username reference.

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[–] 8ksw4@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think it would be really nice to write this somewhere, because the possibilities of this federation are not straightforward, especially for newbies, and already confusing for many. I also thought, after I discovered kbin, that it was an instance of Lemmy, but it is actually its own platform. That's why every additional piece of information is helpful.

[–] Datsourdo@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah, there's plenty that's confusing. I also see that I can follow mastodon and calckey users from kbin, but they don't seem to actually show up in my feeds.