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Welcome to https://mcr.town/c/manchester (mcr.town)

submitted 1 year ago by kev@mcr.town to c/manchester@mcr.town

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I know there's more than one Manchester community set up on the threadiverse (as I've heard it called) already but I've yet to see a single post on either of them, yet.

I'm sure this might befall the same fate but it feels the like best home for a Manchester community is in a Manchester instance.

So feel free to post your Manchester news, thoughts, questions and let's build something!

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[–] losttourist@social.chatty.monster 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@kev Trying to work out how to subscribe to that from kbin.social. Putting that link into the kbin search box returns no results.

[–] kev@mcr.town 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've had the same problem in the reverse direction.

My understanding is that kbin and Lemmy aren't necessarily working perfectly together at the moment. Although I heard a lot of that was to do with kbin using Cloudflare protection, which I think they've turned off now.

Things here certainly aren't as mature as Mastodon yet but hopefully more users will drive more development.

I'll have a look into this stuff better once I'm on my laptop instead of my phone!

[–] losttourist@social.chatty.monster 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@kev Yep no problem, I'm definitely not demanding "GIMME A SOLUTION NOW!!" but it's somewhat annoying that the federation in the threadiverse doesn't seem to work as well as it should.

[–] kev@mcr.town 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I completely agree.

Also lemmy's UI is shocking, especially on mobile. Although I've spent much of my career working on that sort of stuff so I wonder if I'm over-sensitive to it. Which suggests maybe I should have a look and see if I can offer some improvements. I think a few small fixes would go a long way.

[–] losttourist@social.chatty.monster 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@kev Haha I'm the complete opposite. My career has been completely on back-end systems. I can design you an elegant API with my eyes closed, but frequently I see people complaining about UI/UX issues and I genuinely never clocked that there was a problem until someone pointed it out.

[–] kev@mcr.town 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh wow! I only just realised you were talking from your Mastodon account and I'm on a a thread on Lemmy. I'm completely amazed at how well that works!

[–] losttourist@social.chatty.monster 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@kev I just figured out the subscription, too.

I needed to search for @manchester in the kbin search tool. And now I'm subscribed (from my kbin account).

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

I had to search manchester@mcr.town to find it from kbin.social, although it's not showing any content.

Clicking on the @manchester link in your comment gave me a 404

[–] losttourist@social.chatty.monster 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

@Sausage @kev @manchester Gah this is all frustratingly inconsistent. I know it's still early days for kbin and I've been spoilt by the relative maturity of Mastodon, but even so, surely the whole point of the Fediverse is federation!

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

There are definitely kinks to work out. As you say, early days. I think kbin.social is still in prototype, only been up about a month or so. I'm being patient in the hopes that things will get sorted soon.

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

Also, your avatar has made me realise that I need to jazz mine up a bit.

[–] kev@mcr.town 1 points 1 year ago

I'm feeling like I should add a sausage to mine!