Reddit refugee here - stumbled across Lemmy as it was mentioned in a comment on Artifact but intrigued by this format and communities!

Looking for tips as a brand new user to get the most out of it - any advice is welcome! I’m using Mlem which seems to be working pretty well so far.

  • TiresomeOuting
    1•1 year ago

    How do I subscribe to a lemmy community from kbin? I’ve tried searching and waiting like on lemmy and it still doesn’t show up.

    Is there a certain format? I tried fill url, !community@instance, community@instance

    • themadcodger
      0•1 year ago

      @community@instance.tld that’s a more common way across the fediverse and also how you follow people, including those on other platforms like Mastodon and Calckey, etc.

      • TiresomeOuting
        1•1 year ago

        Thanks. Unfortunately it doesn’t seem to work for me. Maybe it’s something with the specific community I’m looking for?

        I’m trying @canada

        Edit: that is rendering strangly in my reply. The community is called canada and the instance is lemmy.ca

        • themadcodger
          1•1 year ago

          Huh, that is strange. I wonder if that one isn’t federating for some reason. I can find @canada@lemmy.ml but @canada@lemmy.ca turns up nothing. Neither does https://lemmy.ca/c/canada 🤔

          Edit: I forgot there are issues with federation right now because of the cloudflare check. It should only be temporary. See Ernest’s post

          • TiresomeOuting
            1•1 year ago

            Thanks, hopefully that’s it. Kbin seems nicer than lemmy but I need some of the communities from lemmy! I was wondering if lemmy.ca was defederated from here or something but good to hear that isn’t it.

            I’ll check back in a few days.