kbin is part of the federation - like Lemmy - but it is coded differently and has a different developer. Since it is part of the federation, though, Lemmy users can subscribe to kbin communities (called magazines) and vice versa. kbin has threads like Lemmy, but it also has a micro blogging option similar to Twitter/Mastodon.
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/gaming@kbin.social, 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 !gaming@kbin.social, 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.
I tried to register for Kbin and never got the registration email.
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!
kbin is part of the federation - like Lemmy - but it is coded differently and has a different developer. Since it is part of the federation, though, Lemmy users can subscribe to kbin communities (called magazines) and vice versa. kbin has threads like Lemmy, but it also has a micro blogging option similar to Twitter/Mastodon.
Oooohhhh okay so it’s not Lemmy but they’re in the same family and can talk to each other in a way?
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.
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/gaming@kbin.social, 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 !gaming@kbin.social, 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.
Could it have gone into a spam folder?
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