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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/169206

Wouldn't it be better to merge than to compete?

Edit: Looks like the community on lemmy.ml is pretty much dead.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah, syncing (federation) between lemmy instances and kbin.social has only just started to work (again). I made this list to document which "lemmy reachable" GW2 communities I could find and cross-posted it to all 3 communities.

I hope that at least one will survive, since I'm not intending to ever go back to reddit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

[email protected] is pretty dead, but I don't see why [email protected] and [email protected] couldn't co-exist. They are even on two different platforms.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Well, I'm currently subscribed to all 3 and since federation now works with kbin.social I can access their GW2 community just like it were on a native lemmy instance. Which is pretty cool.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It is, until federation breaks again (hopefully not) :P

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm subscribed to the ml as well as kbin and have accounts in both but I can't seem to view posts from the ml there alongside the kbin ones. I can see that the ml is linked and I can subscribe to it, but how do I get the kbin to show a merger of both?

Also shouldn't we link the wtf instance too in the kbin?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Usually you don't need accounts on other instances to interact with their communities, e. g. my account is on lemmy.world, but I'm subscribed to 3 GW2 communities on 3 different instances one of which even being a different platform (kbin and not lemmy).

These communities now appear as if they were on my instance, but are in fact local copies which are synchronized/federated using the ActivityPub protocol.

Note that these communities are not merged, i .e. they still appear as separate communities, but there is a (pretty popular) feature request for this on GitHub.

Support for grouping communities / multi-communities #818

I don't know whether federation from lemmy to kbin is currently supported. I'm only using the other direction.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the answer and the link ! That makes sense, then I'll wait and see if there is some traction/progress on the GitHub post!

I thought that going to https://www.lemmy.world/c/[email protected][email protected] would work but that's the whole point of the request