It took me a while to figure this out today and hopefully will help someone along the way.

I saw a post about Lemmy Explorer, a website that lets you find new to you magazines across the federated servers. Great! I thought just what I need to find topics that interest me. So I found some magazines I wanted to subscribe to on kbin and first clicked magazines to search for them but none showed up. “Huh” Next I tried the convenient copy function on Lemmy Explorer and pasted the copied text both under magazines in the search bar and into the search on the front page of kbin. Neither worked for me.

The fix is pretty simple. When you copy from Lemmy Explorer the text copies like this example “!linux@lemmy.ml” all you need to do is remove the “!” at the start making it “linux@lemmy.ml” or “technology@beehaw.org”. Paste the text with the “!” removed into the search bar on the front page of kbin and you will see the magazine pop up. From there you can subscribe to that magazine.

This is without a doubt well known to legacy users of kbin but as a new user I was struggling to figure it out.

Lemmy Explorer

  • MrsEaves@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I’m trying to subscribe to gardening@thegarden.land and can’t seem to get it to show in search results, so it’s not just you.

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      1 year ago

      Interesting. I can’t get that one to work either. Magazines are case sensitive so could that be the issue? Either in the magazine name or the instance?

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        1 year ago

        Just gave that a try and no luck, but I appreciate the suggestion! I think Ernest mentioned that he’d set up the bones for federation before heading to bed, so my guess is just that this is something that will be coming soon but maybe doesn’t work quite yet. No big, I’ll just set a reminder to check in a week or two 😁