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

I wonder if some of it also has to do with how federation works. Once a user visits and follows another instance the two instances start to federate. The more instances and sites of lemmy/kbin and the more users the harder it might get.

Are the communities on lemmy or kbin you are looking for?

On Kbin looking for lemmy or other federations: /m/community@lemmyinstance.tld
On kbin looking for the geddit info community on geddit.social: https://kbin.social/m/geddit@geddit.social

On lemmy looking for /m/KbinMeta: /c/magazine@kbininstance.tld
https://geddit.social/c/kbinMeta@kbin.social

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

They are on lemmy. If I try to visit them on kbin I get a 404 though, as they are not federated yet. I'm not sure how I can trigger that. Visiting the links doesn't work, and searching for them to subscribe doesn't work.

https://kbin.social/m/slaythespire@lemmy.ml
https://kbin.social/m/slaythespire@lemmy.ca

https://lemmy.ml/c/slaythespire
https://lemmy.ca/c/slaythespire

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

I feel like kbin in general was a bit slow a couple hours ago. Maybe you should check again now? I just accessed the first two links from kbin and can see the communities (although it doesn't show any posts in the first and only one in the second).
Thanks for sharing these I love share the spire and subscribed to them now.

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

I can find the mod's profile on kbin: https://kbin.social/u/@donmildreone@lemmy.ml

and I know other communities on lemmy.ml work as I subscribe to the /m/linux@lemmy.ml from kbin. Might need time or more posts to start the federation.