/kbin meta @kbin.social Vildravn @kbin.social 1y ago

Federation and magazines/communities

Hi,

I don't really know where to ask this, I'll try here. Can someone explain to me please how do magazines (communities, w/e the subreddit equivalent is) work in a federated setting? If I understand it correctly, those live on their own instance, and then federated instances can see and interact with the content there. But can every instance can set up their own "Games" community for example? What happens then? Doesn't it get rather fragmented? If people settle in one or two communities out of all, doesn't that sort of defeat the whole point of federation?

Thanks :)

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I'm a little confused about some of this as well, particularly missing communities. One I'd like to join is [email protected] but it's missing from kbin. Has it not just been synced yet? Or is it not federated or something?
- I was also curious about issues like this. You can see that community from kbin here: https://kbin.social/m/[email protected] but also if you go to that page it says "The magazine from the federated server may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance." And indeed, from kbin you can only see 4 posts and 15 subscribers, but from the lemmy.ml page you can see 109 posts and 377 subscribers. I'm not sure what the issue is. Best I can tell, kbin is just a fairly new service and things are still being figured out.