I have been seeing some comments from people struggling to subscribe to kbin magazines from Lemmy so here’s a step-by-step of how I’ve been doing it:
- Note the name of the kbin magazine you want to subscribe to (example: kbin.social/m/books)
- Log into your Lemmy instance from a browser
- The Lemmy instance you are registered with will be the first part of the URL and the kbin community will be the second part. Example: I’m registered with lemmy.world so to register with the kbin Books magazine I would type https://lemmy.world/c/books@kbin.social
- From there, just hit subscribe and it will start showing up anywhere you’re logged into your Lemmy instance (I use Jerboa).
Hopefully this helps spread the word!
You can also search for it in the communities (browser only), just sort by All.
Thanks for sharing that!
I’ve been trying to get this to work for someone (I’m on kbin, they’re on lemmy) but I just get a 404 error. The magazine is kbin.social/m/LucidDreaming, so following your guide I should try https://lemmy.world/c/LucidDreaming@kbin.social, correct? Any idea what’s going wrong?
I think these instructions only work for communities someone on your instance has already subscribed to. Instead, try going https://lemmy.world/search and entering the full URL for the community ( https://kbin.social/m/LucidDreaming ). It’ll spin for a little longer than usual but it should show up in the search results.
Edit to add: The community will probably appear empty, however… new posts will show up, but anything from before the you subscribed probably won’t. If you want to reply to a particular comment, though, you can make it show up by searching for its full URL.
Hello again, I see there are still issues with your community, unfortunately. Hopefully someone here can help!
Have them go to search, make sure everything is searching all, and have them put https://kbin.social/m/LucidDreaming as the search query.
There’s a solid chance they won’t be able to see anything posted prior to when they subscribe, but at least that will make the community federate with that person’s Lemmy instance.
They really need to fix that. It shouldn’t require a subscription to federate. That just means that an /all view is wrong and from this thread, we can see it’s a major UX stumbling block
“All” picks up any communities your instance knows about, whether you personally are subscribed or not. My understanding is that once one person from your instance subscribes to something it starts federating, but unless someone does that it stays separate.
While I agree being able to search for communities needs a little help if it’s a brand new community outside of your home instance to make it less confusing, it makes sense from the standpoint of having to tell the community to talk to an external instance by having someone from the external instance subscribe.
Wow you posted this right as I was looking for how to do it, lol. Thanks!
This stuff should be automated and let the back end automation handle this stuff for less technically inclined folks.
It will be. There are a lot of bugs and issues right now.
Is there a repo link to track features and bugs?
Really? in the browser I’ve had reasonable luck just searching the magazine Uri directly in my Lemmy instance.
No need to get the lemmy.world version.
Honestly. I find I almost never get success searching for random kbin and Lemmy communities/magazines in Jerboa - Bowser is king of Lemmy search.
There really needs to be a Lemmy/Kbin version of Graze for Mastodon
@airportline I was just thinking this. Graze has saved Mastodon for me
I’m not having much luck finding smaller kbin magazines on lemmy. Hope things improve a bit
Probably the magazine has to be federated first - and so it has to be searched from the instance. I’ll provide example using magazine AskKbin and assuming you’re using browser version of Lemmy. The local adress for magazine is https://kbin.social/m/AskKbin
Go to your Lemmy and press search button. Search for the magazine using the local adress of the magazine (https://kbin.social/m/AskKbin). Once searched, it should start federating and you can subscribe to it. You should be able to easily subscribe to the magazine as well - as it is going to appear as community in search results. Similiarly you would initialte federation with communities from other instances of lemmy, if they aren’t federated yetThanks. I got it working. Not sure if it was doing what you said or another thing (I tried a bunch of stuff). But it seems to be doing better now
Thanks 👍
Comment to save this since I don’t know how to save posts on kbin (or if it’s even possible yet?)
I didn’t even know that you can connect both platforms. Gonna try it later, thank you.
Could you please add a “Why YSK:”? It’s rule #2. It’s also helpful for readability, and informs readers about the importance of the content. Thank you. :)
i did this with a couple magazines and they’re sitting as ‘subscribe pending’. how long does that usually take?
Same here. And my front page is only one single community lol
Dear sweet baby Jesus, this solves so many problems I had with lemmy. Now I’ve got “subreddits”, lemmywinks, lemmstwrs?
They are just “communities”.
This right here, no need to re-brand things that already exist and work as intended.
Lemmunities
I like it! LEMMUNITIES!
Tried all the tricks in this thread, but just get 404 or zero results when searching.
This was not working for me and I finally figured out why. I was using the search under “Communities” and not the general search in the upper right. It is counter-intuitive that the communities search won’t find unfederated communities while the general search will, but that is how it works.
That you all for this post. It did ultimately get me where I needed to be.
They show up fine in the communities search for me. https://i.imgur.com/iHO4wIP.png
I was using the search box above the “List of Communities” and getting no results. When I switched to clicking on the magnifying glass icon at the top of the regular page it worked. I don’t know why.
That’s the box I used too. I looked into it a bit further and I think possibly the issue is the community/magazine you were searching for had not been subscribed to before by a user on your home instance. In that case the instance has no index for that community/magazine and you need to manually point it toward the instance it’s on. But once this is done the community info is cached in the search for any user on that instance looking for that community later on. I guess once the ecosystem is mature then provided you’re on a relatively populated instance and the community you’re searching for isn’t too niche, you could just go to the community search first and it’d work most of the time.
