Why YSK: making the most of the fediverse means aggregating content from as many places as possible, but it’s not an intuitive process right now, especially for those using apps like Jerboa or Mlem.
I have been seeing some comments from people struggling to subscribe to kbin magazines from Lemmy so here’s a step-by-step of how I’ve been doing it:
- Note the name of the kbin magazine you want to subscribe to (example: kbin.social/m/books)
- Log into your Lemmy instance from a browser
- The Lemmy instance you are registered with will be the first part of the URL and the kbin community will be the second part. Example: I’m registered with lemmy.world so to register with the kbin Books magazine I would type https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]
- From there, just hit subscribe and it will start showing up anywhere you’re logged into your Lemmy instance (I use Jerboa).
Hopefully this helps spread the word!
This stuff should be automated and let the back end automation handle this stuff for less technically inclined folks.
It will be. There are a lot of bugs and issues right now.
Is there a repo link to track features and bugs?
Preesh
Keep your pants on… This patform had maybe 12k users less than a month ago. There’s gonna be some growing pains.
Nah dawg these pants stay off #dicksout
What does did you mean Dick Scout?
Hwhat?
#HarambeNeverForget
You can also search for it in the communities (browser only), just sort by All.
Thanks for sharing that!
This was not working for me and I finally figured out why. I was using the search under “Communities” and not the general search in the upper right. It is counter-intuitive that the communities search won’t find unfederated communities while the general search will, but that is how it works.
That you all for this post. It did ultimately get me where I needed to be.
They show up fine in the communities search for me. https://i.imgur.com/iHO4wIP.png
I was using the search box above the “List of Communities” and getting no results. When I switched to clicking on the magnifying glass icon at the top of the regular page it worked. I don’t know why.
That’s the box I used too. I looked into it a bit further and I think possibly the issue is the community/magazine you were searching for had not been subscribed to before by a user on your home instance. In that case the instance has not indexed that community/magazine and you need to manually point it toward the instance it’s on. But once this is done the community info is cached in the search for any user on that instance looking for that community later on. I guess once the ecosystem is mature then provided you’re on a relatively populated instance and the community you’re searching for isn’t too niche, you could just go to the community search first and it’d work most of the time.
Yes, that does make the difference. Either search can find communities that are local or have already been requested. Only the main search seems able to find and request new communities from other servers.
Could you please add a “Why YSK:”? It’s rule #2. It’s also helpful for readability, and informs readers about the importance of the content. Thank you. :)
Done, thank you!
There really needs to be a Lemmy/Kbin version of Graze for Mastodon
Thanks for this.
@airportline I was just thinking this. Graze has saved Mastodon for me
Dear sweet baby Jesus, this solves so many problems I had with lemmy. Now I’ve got “subreddits”, lemmywinks, lemmstwrs?
They are just “communities”.
Lemmunities
I like it! LEMMUNITIES!
This right here, no need to re-brand things that already exist and work as intended.
sublemmies… wait no it starts with c… clublemmits?
Anyone know how to do this the other way around? Subscribing to lemmy communities from kbin?
edit: it seems to work the same way. you just have to search for the community in kbin first or otherwise it will show a 404.
Wow you posted this right as I was looking for how to do it, lol. Thanks!
i did this with a couple magazines and they’re sitting as ‘subscribe pending’. how long does that usually take?
Yeah, I have some of them like that too
Same! What do!?
Same here. And my front page is only one single community lol
I’ve been trying to get this to work for someone (I’m on kbin, they’re on lemmy) but I just get a 404 error. The magazine is kbin.social/m/LucidDreaming, so following your guide I should try https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected], correct? Any idea what’s going wrong?
Have them go to search, make sure everything is searching all, and have them put https://kbin.social/m/LucidDreaming as the search query.
There’s a solid chance they won’t be able to see anything posted prior to when they subscribe, but at least that will make the community federate with that person’s Lemmy instance.
They really need to fix that. It shouldn’t require a subscription to federate. That just means that an /all view is wrong and from this thread, we can see it’s a major UX stumbling block
“All” picks up any communities your instance knows about, whether you personally are subscribed or not. My understanding is that once one person from your instance subscribes to something it starts federating, but unless someone does that it stays separate.
While I agree being able to search for communities needs a little help if it’s a brand new community outside of your home instance to make it less confusing, it makes sense from the standpoint of having to tell the community to talk to an external instance by having someone from the external instance subscribe.
I think these instructions only work for communities someone on your instance has already subscribed to. Instead, try going https://lemmy.world/search and entering the full URL for the community ( https://kbin.social/m/LucidDreaming ). It’ll spin for a little longer than usual but it should show up in the search results.
Edit to add: The community will probably appear empty, however… new posts will show up, but anything from before the you subscribed probably won’t. If you want to reply to a particular comment, though, you can make it show up by searching for its full URL.
I was about to reply saying that the search didn’t work, that I could only see two comments I made in kbin.social sharing the link, but then I pressed the next button and there was a one line link to the community on the next page. Really weird formatting, but that did it! Thanks a lot! :)
EDIT: @cdiv So it turns out that this worked for lemmy.world but not for sh.itjust.works. When I search there I only see comments where people have mentioned the link, but no actual link to the community. This is so weird and confusing lol
Finally subscribed to https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected] !
Yes! Awesome, nice to have you :)
I had the same problem. 404 and not appearing in the communities search. I gave it a day or so, and it worked. Maybe its some kind of syncing delay between instances.
Hello again, I see there are still issues with your community, unfortunately. Hopefully someone here can help!
Thanks anyway :)
It seems to have started federating now. All new posts from this point in that magazine should be visible in Lemmy.world.
Thanks, so kbin is a fediverse server that is NOT lemmy, right? Can we see it if we search communities?
Yes.
Really? in the browser I’ve had reasonable luck just searching the magazine Uri directly in my Lemmy instance.
No need to get the lemmy.world version.
Honestly. I find I almost never get success searching for random kbin and Lemmy communities/magazines in Jerboa - Bowser is king of Lemmy search.
I started on lemmy.world, but I really like the look and layout of kbin. How would I go about bringing the lemmy.world subs over to kbin?
It’s a manual process right now, they don’t have a transfer function like Mastodon does. But I imagine this will be upgraded in the future. I’ll typically just go to my instance’s search function and filter for just communities and just start searching and adding - haven’t tried Kbin fully so I don’t know the experience on that platform.
i want to know too. can someone let me know if an answer was posted? many thanks!
Saving for later (is there a better way?)
Thanks 👍
