I took a quick look while it was up and it was just a user guide, similar to the lemmymigration subreddit
this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2023
315 points (100.0% liked)
13633 readers
1 users here now
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Sorry if this is a dumb question - wtf is Kbin? I ass it mentioned on here everywhere, is it another Lemmy instance? I feel out of the loop!
How does one do that?
It's bugging out right now, probably because of the massive amount of traffic, but once things calm down you should be able to search for a magazine by full URL (https://kbin.social/m/gaming, for example) in communities, switch all search settings to "All", wait for your instance to pull in the magazine and click through to the federated URL (should look like https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected], assuming you're on lemmy.world)
Basically, just like adding a community nobody else on your instance has added before.
You actually have to do a weird little ritual ATM. You search it by URL (HTTP like you did or like [email protected], I'm not clear on which), it will return nothing, and then you leave the page and come back a few minutes later. After that you can just search it normally.
Unfortunately kbin.social specifically is having a federation problem right now.
If they use the same protocol, can KBin readers browse Lemmy communities?
They can and do. Seen quite a few Kbin users wandering around here.