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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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[–] livus@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Does this mean you are posting this on lemmy.world and I am reading it on kbin?

[–] clueless_stoner@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Haha yep, this community is hosted on lemmy.world! And you're commenting from kbin. That's so cool!

[–] UnshavedYak@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Forkk@forkk.me 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was blocked by kbin having cloudflare DDoS protection enabled to reduce server load. I guess that blocks federation.

[–] cowvin@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hmm, surely there must be a way to whitelist other instances you want to federate with so they don't get blocked by cloudflare....

[–] Forkk@forkk.me 1 points 1 year ago

I'm sure you can do that in cloudflare but it'd require whitelisting every Lemmy instance that you want to federate with on kbin's end, which is a bit much.

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[–] C8H10N4O2@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] themadcodger@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

If you have the top bar enabled, you can see it at the top on the right hand side.

[–] livus@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

It's super cool! My mind is now blown!

[–] BreadDog@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yup, exactly. Welcome to the fediverse!

[–] livus@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Oh, wow, thanks! I love it that my first inter-fediverse communication was you welcoming me, too.

I come in peace :)

[–] iAmTheTot@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Can we please call it literally anything else? I'm tired of "verses".

[–] vmstan@vmst.io 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@iAmTheTot @CodingAndCoffee @livus @BreadDog It has been the Fediverse long before the other Verses came long.

[–] themz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Universe definitely came along first

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[–] pieceofthepie@social.n8e.dev 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] waterbottleonashelf@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

wow interesting. Mastadon has a decent app in place too doesn't it? That might be the best usage experience for me actually. Mastadon on the phone, Kbin on a desktop. Especially if it all links up.

[–] jhonatan@mastodon.world 3 points 1 year ago

@waterbottleonashelf @CodingAndCoffee @livus this is what I’m sticking to as a replacement to reddit/app. I’ve been mainly visiting #kbin on desktop but now that it’s federated, a lot of magazines/threads I follow are showing up in my Mastodon app. This #fediverse stuff is great!

[–] BarrelAgedBoredom 1 points 1 year ago

So you'd be able to log in to a Lemmy account from mastodon? Like many of us here, I'm still wrapping my head around this fediverse stuff

[–] bbtai@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] themadcodger@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that part is a little confusing. Because this is a link aggregation site, it's currently set up to show the domain of whatever link is in the thread. But if it's just a text post, because it's being brought over here it self-reports that we're looking at kbin.social.

If you have the top bar enabled from settings you can see where you're currently looking at the top right.

[–] livus@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I'm still trying to work that out too.

[–] fatalchemist@mastodon.social 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] livus@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago
[–] niktemadur@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I was trying to do this on Monday and couldn't, so I thought it wasn't possible. But now, here we are, and here it is!