Given both kbin and lemmy are part of the fediverse, I would expect to be able to subscribe to https://kbin.social/m/tech by searching for !tech@kbin.social - but nothing shows up.
What am I doing wrong?
You are doing nothing wrong. Due to the load, kbin.social enabled Cloudflare protection which breaks their federating with other servers. Until they turn that off, they won’t properly propagate to other servers.
Good to know - thanks!
same here. I also want to follow a lot of useful magazines of kbin.
Same issue here. I found this thread via the search function. Did it start working for you at some point? @sunbeam60@lemmy.one @kionite231@lemmy.ca
Nope, seems it’s a cloudflare issue in front of kbin.social
I think he disabled cloudflare already. But maybe federation is still not working properly. Thanks for the info, good to hear I’m not alone with this issue. But I think they will have this up and running soon. Nobody expected the huge amount of users, it will take a while to adjust.
Which ones were piquing your interest? When I checked a few days ago, almost all the magazines with recent activity were “frontpage” topics like tech or news that are already well covered by Lemmy communities.
Instead of searching for the !tech@kbin.social, try pasting the url itself into the searchbar.
Kbin is newer software than lemmy and is also being hit pretty hard by the reddit exodus right now so it also just might not be working.
What’s the difference between kbin and lemmy? Tried to look it up, but it seems most treat them as interchangable
I guess that’s the wonder of ActivityPub?
kbin.social is currently having issues with its federation due to how they enabled Cloudflare protections.
Yes and at the moment it has a short downtime due to “technical work in progress”. But ernest is aware of that and maybe that update he’s doing now will fix that - fingers crossed!
I think the “!” Syntax is lemmy specific. Try the “@” symbol in its place. For example if i wanted to follow asklemmy from mastodon i would have to enter @asklemmy@lemmy.ml to get it. Otherwise use the full https link such as https://kbin.social/m/tech
Kbin isn’t playing nicely with federating at the moment. What I’ve been reading is that the cloud flair ddos protection is disrupting the automated requests from the instance.
Is this still an issue? I’m unable to find !PCGaming@kbin.social from iusearchlinux.fyi
I can find that community from lemmy.world, however.
kbin federation works for me now.
AFAIK because of the cloudflare check federation is now broken between kbin.social and the rest of the fediverse. Please somebody correct me if I’m wrong.
Take a look at https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3020 it has some insight.
