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Subscribing to small (previously unseen by kbin) communities (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by exscape@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social

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How does this work on kbin at the moment?

My understanding is that, at least on Lemmy, you should be able to search for a full community name, wait a while, and have it show up and start federating. I've been searching for two communities (in the format name@instance.tld) on kbin since yesterday and it still shows no matches.

Both are small (<20 subscribers) and currently inactive (no new posts in a week). Do I need to wait until there is new content in them?

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[–] Sal@mander.xyz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah!

And if you search for the original community url? For example: https://beehaw.org/c/science

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

Haha, uh, it did find a community when I searched for the URL, but it found science@mander.xyz -- that's pretty bizarre.

I think this is either a bug (I mean, in one sense it's certainly a bug) or just that something needs to change in the community before it shows up and is created locally (which kind of is a bug too).

If the kbin codebase wasn't so complex I'd try to check the code to see how this all works.

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

it's probably related to the bug that is known about and getting fixed - that kbin is currently case sensitive - which breaks things a bit when it comes to remote communities.