Vote if you like, but the primary reason I'm posting this is because this community has been linked as a reddit alternative in the post.
Welcome gamers! You do not need an account on kbin.social to post here. Pick any Kbin or Lemmy server (lemmygrad and lemmy.ml are not recommended), make an account, and type @[email protected] in the search bar to get here.
Consider subscribing to /c/[email protected] as well if you're able. There's been some odd bugs getting their posts, hopefully that's ironed out. These projects are still somewhat early in development, but have a promising future!
Also: consider searching #GuildWars2 to see even more discussion from the wider network. If you have any questions about federated social media, please ask them below :D
Nice of them to link here, it's still a small community but that's not always a bad thing, and neither is moving away from reddit as much as possible since things there are just going to get worse there. It's still early tech but it works well most of the time and has really great potential, especially now that it gained popularity and additional developers/funding due to the reddit boost.
As for @guildwars2, I don't think we're able to connect to them at all for some reason. I can't find them in the browser to subscribe to them, and their kbin page (https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]) is 404-ing meaning it was never even synced (nobody ever subscribed to it).
When I saw, that the gw2 reddit didn't stick with their blackout, i created an account with kbin.social
I was also able to subscribe to https://kbin.social/m/GuildWars2
Wow. I am feeling a bit more than disappointed by this move.
I mean, I guess all well and good for everyone that just wants to go back there, but frankly for me? this makes me want to never do it now, even when I might have maaaybe considered it before had they stuck to what they said they would do.
I made some nice friends there and will miss them, but I think the environment is frankly just not worth it anymore.
As for @guildwars2, I don't think we're able to connect to them at all for some reason. I can't find them in the browser to subscribe to them, and their kbin page (https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]) is 404-ing meaning it was never even synced (nobody ever subscribed to it).
It seems that federation between Lemmy and Kbin is broken again. For some reason, it is still possible to connect to communities that was connected before federation broke, but not newer communities:
It is a bit different though, I can search for [email protected] and actually find it: https://i.imgur.com/Pf7k3jO.png
Now that I've actually searched for it once the page you linked should actually start working too instead of throwing a 404.
This never happens with [email protected], search always returned nothing. It really looks like something specific between lemmy.wtf and kbin.social.
Its really nice to see this community have an alternative. It was really jarring to watch all this nonsense unfold and see users confused as to why they were locked out of content.
The beauty of federated social media is that it doesn't matter which one "wins". Once bugs are sorted out, Kbin can see Lemmy's content and Lemmy can see Kbin's.
Everything here is connected, so it ultimately won't matter which platform or server you choose. Obviously there are levers for admins to defederate (or, refuse to communicate with) from servers who host illegal content or enable spammers. This is generally a last resort though; most admins believe strongly in keeping everything connected.
The following unviversal subscribe links should work from/on any lemmy instance (which already knows about the community on lemmy.wtf or kbin.social, i. e. at least one user has searched for it.)
The first link does not work , because kbin.social does not know about the community on lemmy.wtf yet. It isn't listed under Magazines.
The second link does not work on kbin.social, because guildwars2 is local to kbin.social (/m/guildwars2), but it might work on a different kbin instance. I personally think that using a fully qualified name should be allowed, too, but the kbin devs seem to disagree. 🙂
Slow-going is way more my speed (as I reply 2 days late and it doesn't even seem weird), so here's hoping it sticks. I haven't exactly been a fan of reddit for some years, but the gw2 sub has been one of the few that made it worth putting up with.
As much as I'd like that to happen, this part of the fediverse is definitely not ready for a mass migration of users. For now, it's only longtime users and early adopters. The average user probably wouldn't be okay with downtime, and the average moderator would be woefully underequipped to manage the community.