EDIT: Sorry I did not make this clear. I am not presenting this as a techincal problem for admins to solve, but as a community problem. The kbin.social community as the larger instance is not seeking out communities from the smaller instances.
When searching for magazines (communities) the results almost always show either kbin.social or one of the major Lemmy instances.
I can pull the domains like https://kbin.social/d/fedia.io but when i try to pull a community like https://kbin.social/m/[email protected] I get a 404 error.
To compound the problem lemmy communities are much more discoverable because they are listed on https://browse.feddit.de/. So even kbin users are largely interacting more through lemmy communities.
As far as I know there is no such tool to browse or search communities across all kbin instances. Does anyone know if the lemmy browser can include kbin instances?
Fedia.io, the largest other kbin instance seems to have lots of communities on the vine because we largely do not interact with them. But they see the rest of the fediverse like we do.
If we want other instances to grow like kbin.social has we probably need to resolve this disconnect between kbin communities.
Honestly, kbin isn’t fully ready… it’s very early in it’s development cycle. But I entirely agree on this here. I think the main thing kbin needs to work on right now is becoming stable…
Yeah, this is not really meant to be leveled as a complaint for admins to handle alone. There are things we can all do to increase the federation and interaction between kbin instances. @codingandcoffee has instructions for how to pull a specific instance or community the correct way.