Hey everyone. I’m new to all this - as are most people I realize - but I’ve been really enjoying Lemmy so far. I’m subscribed to alternatives here of subreddits I frequented on Reddit and been participating in discussions and engaging with the communities as well. Overall, it’s been good!

That said I’ve recently learned of another federated community style site (I think?) known as kbin (with other instances available. I’d like to subscribe to communities on this platform as well but I’m unsure if these are able to interface with each other.

For example: I learned of the kbin community for Disneyland. I followed a similar process to subscribing to other instances of Lemmy on my lemmy.ca account (pasting into the search bar) and was able to find and subscribe to the Disneyland community, however there are currently no posts there (compared to the community on kbin with multiple posts already) leading me to think something may have gone awry or the two platforms are unable to interface with each other.

Any and all help is appreciated if something like this is possible. I’ve heard kbin can work with lemmy, but perhaps not the other way around? Let me know and thank you.

  • Otome-chan@kbin.social
    8·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • arkcom@kbin.social
    2·
    2 years ago

    If you were the first person to subscribe, only posts made since then will show up. You can make new posts, though.

    • mbryson@lemmy.caOP
      1·
      2 years ago

      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.

  • Negative_Pair_5694@beehaw.org
    2·
    2 years ago

    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?

    • arkcom@kbin.social
      2·
      2 years ago

      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.

    • Otome-chan@kbin.social
      2·
      2 years ago

      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.

  • jjagaimo@lemmy.one
    2·
    2 years ago

    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.