I seem to be missing something about the process.

Some followable kbin places show up when I search Communities, but how do I go about following one that Beehaw doesn’t already apparently know about?

  • kadu@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    At this particular moment, you don’t. Kbin added CloudFlare to cache and prevent attacks, but this also created issues with their federation

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      1 year ago

      Can you follow Kbin magazines from fedia.io at the moment? You can follow Lemmy communities from there, so I was wondering if that works both ways. Presumably if it does then it should be possible to follow kbin.social magazines eventually.

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        1 year ago

        I believe so. Again, the main blocker is kbin had to enable CloudFlare due to user overload and unfortunately that breaks federation. Given time the issue should solve itself hopefully.

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          1 year ago

          Cool, thanks. So I guess my question is how you search for a kbin instance from Lemmy? If I search for [email protected] for instance I only get results from lemmy threads rather than the magazine itself.

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            1 year ago

            Try searching without the exclamation point? I think that’s all you need to do. I’m new to the Fediverse too. I believe whilst usually federation is instant the massive influx of users means there’s a delay at the moment, so all content should appear as expected as the servers grow and stabilize to match the influx of Reddit refugees.