As with /r/411 this is where you ask what Community you're looking for but not finding. Perhaps a bit more helpful now that some communities are only found on certain instances.
Found/new community announcements - there are numerous "announcement type communities - see https://lemmy.ca/post/612532
There is also [email protected]
Before you request There are several resources available to find communities and resources and these have been pinned to the top.
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Hello from kbin. Sometimes federating/syncing communities can take a while, and you may not see things right away if you're the first in your instance to subscribe to a community. In theory, things should sync 100% once federation and subscribing to a community occurs. In practice things aren't always perfect.
Lemmy users should be able to see and participate in kbin threads though.
Sounds good! Thank you!
I'm posting this from kbin. Found this thread while browsing some of the tabs on the site.
Will keep this here for now as its helpful and promotes Threadiverse growth at a crucial time, but locking. Discussions about intrafederated interactions, capabilities or support questions are probably better held over in [email protected] , or [email protected]
Is kbin commonly open to federate with?
I tried to subscribe to some magazines from my own private lemmy instance, no errors are thrown in the log, but there is no activity following up. The subscription stays pending and no posts show up.
My guess would be that kbin.social is only talking with some bigger lemmy instances?
It should federate with all instances. I've heard of a lemmy bug around pending subscriptions, but I don't remember if it was kbin specific.
Also strange, I cannot see mbryson's replies in this thread despite getting notifications and the comment counter going up.
afaik kbin should be federating with everyone. I've seen some posts even from some niche mastodon instances like "veganism.social" haha. though federation here has definitely been wonky/slow/broken for the past few days and has only recently started working again.
kbin.social had federation break due to cloudflare
If you were the first person to subscribe, only posts made since then will show up. You can make new posts, though.
Ah I see. I just tested by making a pretty general post/topic on the sub which showed on both kbin and Lemmy. Does this mean I've created a new community for lemmy by doing this (or at least a copy community of the one on kbin just reposting the discussions and sharing the information from one platform to the other?)
EDIT: I think I understand now and understand I didn't "create" the new community.
kbin.social might not work because they enabled cloudflare ddos protection during the large migration due to the blackout. This broke federation because the site would hit a landing page with a captcha instead of the actual site when trying to poll the api. Not sure if that's been fixed since.
In any case, it should work either way if federation is enabled and working.