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From what I’ve gathered, you can search and results from Lemmy instances will show up in the Kbin search.
You can also use a url scheme. For example, to connect to the steamdeck community at Lemmy.ml through Kbin, you can go to http://kbin.social/m/steamdeck@lemmy.ml
The UX isn’t perfect. I’d like more clear differentiation between communities and a better search/discovery for content within the fediverse.
EDIT: I found a comment from the admin explaining how to search for communities from specific instances
https://kbin.social/m/fediverse@lemmy.ml/t/9993/Difference-between-kbin-and-lemmy#entry-comment-42149
So I understand that to get content indexed from an instance someone has to search for that instance in a particular way.
I’m having the same problem I did on Reddit though. How am I supposed to find communities that I want to subscribe to? If they aren’t indexed then they won’t show up in all and I won’t have a clue to search for them to get them indexed. If they are indexed I might see them in all and can subscribe… for the most part though finding communities I’m interested in feels like random chance.
Like I said, I had the same issue finding subs on Reddit. It was a little easier with Reddit because of Google indexing posts and comments but I don’t know how much indexing Google is doing of fediverse stuff because everything is distributed.
That’s the issue I’m currently running into as well. Along with a lot of my communities probably not switching over because they’re very non-technical, haha.