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Vote if you like, but the primary reason I’m posting this is because this community has been linked as a reddit alternative in the post.

Welcome gamers! You do not need an account on kbin.social to post here. Pick any Kbin or Lemmy server (lemmygrad and lemmy.ml are not recommended), make an account, and type @guildwars2@kbin.social in the search bar to get here.

Consider subscribing to /c/[email protected] as well if you’re able. There’s been some odd bugs getting their posts, hopefully that’s ironed out. These projects are still somewhat early in development, but have a promising future!

Also: consider searching #GuildWars2 to see even more discussion from the wider network. If you have any questions about federated social media, please ask them below :D

  • Kaldo
    9•1 year ago

    Nice of them to link here, it’s still a small community but that’s not always a bad thing, and neither is moving away from reddit as much as possible since things there are just going to get worse there. It’s still early tech but it works well most of the time and has really great potential, especially now that it gained popularity and additional developers/funding due to the reddit boost.

    As for @guildwars2, I don’t think we’re able to connect to them at all for some reason. I can’t find them in the browser to subscribe to them, and their kbin page (https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]) is 404-ing meaning it was never even synced (nobody ever subscribed to it).

      • Leafeytea
        5•1 year ago

        Wow. I am feeling a bit more than disappointed by this move.
        I mean, I guess all well and good for everyone that just wants to go back there, but frankly for me? this makes me want to never do it now, even when I might have maaaybe considered it before had they stuck to what they said they would do.
        I made some nice friends there and will miss them, but I think the environment is frankly just not worth it anymore.

    • Meldrik
      3•1 year ago

      As for @guildwars2, I don’t think we’re able to connect to them at all for some reason. I can’t find them in the browser to subscribe to them, and their kbin page (https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]) is 404-ing meaning it was never even synced (nobody ever subscribed to it).

      It seems that federation between Lemmy and Kbin is broken again. For some reason, it is still possible to connect to communities that was connected before federation broke, but not newer communities:

      Works
      https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]

      Doesn’t work
      https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]

      • Kaldo
        2•1 year ago

        It is a bit different though, I can search for [email protected] and actually find it: https://i.imgur.com/Pf7k3jO.png
        Now that I’ve actually searched for it once the page you linked should actually start working too instead of throwing a 404.

        This never happens with [email protected], search always returned nothing. It really looks like something specific between lemmy.wtf and kbin.social.

        • Meldrik
          4•1 year ago

          You are right. This confirms that something must be setup wrong on lemmy.wtf. Before I kept thinking that it might be because I am using a Cloudflare tunnel for lemmy.wtf…

          edit: Does kbin.social keep timing out for anyone else right now?

          • Meldrik
            2•1 year ago

            Would it matter when you are trying to reach lemmy.wtf from kbin.social? The Cloudflare Challenge shouldn’t do anything for outgoing from Kbin.social.

            I use Cloudflare and Cloudflare Tunnel for lemmy.wtf as well, so maybe Cloudflare is blocking Kbin.social’s request?

            • man0fbassOP
              2•1 year ago

              iirc that was happening for kbin.social for a while during a ddos attack. cloudflare does mess with federation quite a bit.

            • Necropola❌
              2•1 year ago

              As far as I understand you are both using Cloudflare and I assume that the Cloudflare Challange only hits incoming connections, but I have no practical experience with Cloudflare myself.

              Anyway, when both lemmy.wtf as well as kbin.social are using Cloudflare, then traffic is always incoming via Cloudflare whenever those instances are trying to communicate/federate with each other.

              I’ve found posts which suggest to exclude certain paths/URLs from bot detection thereby suppressing the Challenge when a bot does what a bot is supposed to do, but there also appears to be an Essentially off setting which one could try temporarily to see whether this solves the issue.

              • Necropola❌
                2•1 year ago

                Looks like kbin.social’s IP is registered on Cloudflare’s DNS servers, but the IP belongs to Fastly.

                Maybe running a lemmy or kbin instance behind Cloudflare isn’t such a good idea after all. Apart from communication problems like federation not working properly there are some serious privacy concerns or rather running federated network traffic through a centralized US based network service kinda contradicts the whole fediverse idea.

        • dominoko
          2•1 year ago

          I made a few posts on m/kbinmeta but I never received an answer. I found a list of instances we federate with (not sure how to find it again) and lemmy.wtf was on the list.