Battlestations - Lemmy.world

Hello everyone. I am working on reviving the /c/battlestations community which I believe has a potential to be popular. 📺 🖥️

Feel free to stop by and share your setup.

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I wonder how long federation to kbin will take.
Leaving a comment to remind me to look in a few hours so I can subscribe.
- Should be good to go soon. Someone needs to search for the community before it begins indexing. I just did that.
  
  Thanks.
  
  I had clicked on the ! Link. Does that trigger the search / index? Or is something else required?
  
  It's available for me on kbin.social as of this writing, and I subscribed.
  
  As far as I can tell, what one needs to do on kbin is search for communityname@instance. I don't think that "!" goes in the search string.
  
  But that's already run by now.
  
  For people on kbin.social, you should be able to see it at:
  
  https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]
  
  If you're on another kbin instance, do the above search. I'm still a little fuzzy about the right syntax in a comment to produce a link to perform such an initial search in a cross-lemmy/kbin, cross-instance fashion. I think that it should be:
  
  !@[email protected]
  
  Giving the following:
  
  That generated link does work for me on kbin.social, but I could be wrong about it working elsewhere.
  
  I really wish that this particular issue would be made clear, as it's important for community discoverability.
  
  EDIT: Nope, generated link does not work on lemmy.world, so doesn't work on lemmy, at least.
  
  EDIT2: On fedia.io, another kbin instance, the link also doesn't work, so someone on the instance may need to have already subscribed for the link to be auto-generated. The ability to have a link format that directs to one's local instance in a way that works on all lemmy and kbin instances, regardless of whether anyone has subscribed, would be really nice.
  
  EDIT3: Trying:
  
  [[email protected]](/search?q=battlestations%40lemmy.world)
  
  Yields
  
  [email protected]
  
  Which works to generate a search on kbin.social.
  
  It also appears to work on fedia.io, so this is probably the right way to do a link, at least for kbin users.
  
  EDIT4: It also appears to work for lemmy instances! This should probably be the new syntax used on [email protected] to link to a community!
  
  Awesome! Thank you! Confused Kbin'er here.
  
  Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]

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