Forgive me if this is truly a stupid question but I cannot find the answer and I have been afraid to ask.
Am attaching a screen shot to assist my babbling below.
When surfing thru the various communities (and please feel free to correct me if I use a wrong term here) I will see many that have the same name but only difference is that at the end of that name, there is an ‘@xyz.ca’ or similar.
I assumed these were just the same communities only started on different servers?
However I have seen several - like the one where my arrow points to that doesn’t have an ‘@‘ location at the end of it. Can someone explain to me the difference here? Thanks
Lemmy is federated, so there are multiple “similar” communities on different instances. Here you are on lemmy.world if there isnt amy @ … if there is something like @lemmy.ml it is on lemmy.ml. You can subscribe to them on every instance ( only if the instance is blocked ), comment and create posts there
Why doesn’t [email protected] show up when I log into kbin.social and try to subscribe from that instance?
I started it here: https://lemmy.world/c/flyfishing
The only thing I can think of is kbin isn’t federating with lemmy.world completely. I’m pretty sure kbin stuff should show up on lemmy and vice versa.
I think I got it working: https://kbin.social/search?q=flyfishing%40lemmy.world
Had to search from the address bar by typing the lemmy.world server name in the url.
Subbed from my kbin account for you so it should federate right, now.
Hope this helped!
Until someone on kbin subscribes to it via putting in the url directly it doesn’t show up as kbin dose not know it exists iirc. Same thing with Lemmy, if someone on your instance isn’t subscribed to a community on another instance then it doesn’t show up until someone dose
Edit: Getting a 404 error when I try to go there to subscribe, as money_loo said its probably a backend issue with kbin
Can I get that process started? Where do I put the url in directly to subscribe from kbin if/when the 404 error is corrected?
Looks like someone has already subbed, so it should show up now, but essentially you just manually put in the url and go there. for example this page on kbin is https://kbin.social/m/[email protected], just change that to https://kbin.social/m/[email protected] and subscribe with a kbin account.
Turns out there is a few other ways to do it as well, this stack exchange post should have some more information if you want it.