No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world pathief @lemmy.world 1y ago

[Solved] Is it possible to follow a kbin magazine on lemmy?

Basically I want to follow https://kbin.social/m/chess without the assle of browsing a different website.

Is it possible to follow and comment a kbin magazine ou lemmy?

UPDATE: I was able to subscribe to /m/chess on lemmy.world, but I still don't see any of their posts. Maybe I'll only receive the new ones? I tried to create a post there and it does show on kbin! However, comments don't seem to show up on kbin yet, trying to wait it out.

Go to communities and paste the url https://kbin.social/m/chess in the search box. It won’t find anything, but if you change the selection box from communties to all, you should see [email protected] in the result. Click on the and subscribe.

UPDATE2:

I only see new posts, older posts don't show up. That's fine
I can create a new post, it shows on kbin. However, comments made on lemmy don't show up in kbin. Comments on kbin show up in lemmy
Made a second posts, everything worked fine. Comments show up on kbin just fine. Weird...
New posts made on kbin show up on lemmy. Comments made on lemmy on a post created via kbin work fine. They also show up on lemmy. No idea why but I'm happy.

Thanks, everyone!!!!

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UPDATE:

Thanks to your help I was able to subscribe successfully. Easy link: https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]

It has weird quirks though:

I only see new posts, older posts don’t show up. That’s fine

I can create a new post, it shows on kbin. However, comments made on lemmy don’t show up in kbin. Comments on kbin show up in lemmy

New posts made on kbin show up on lemmy. Comments made on lemmy on a post created via kbin work fine. They also show up on lemmy. No idea why but I’m happy.

Thanks, everyone!!!
- I only see new posts, older posts don’t show up.
  
  This is a quirk with federation using ActivityPub (which is what both Lemmy and kbin, we well as Mastodon, Calckey, Friendica, PixelFed, PeerTube, and many others use to communicate with each other) in general. Subscriptions work just like magazine or newspaper subscriptions - that is, you don't get back issues.
  
  You may be wondering then why you do see older content on remote Lemmy communities. That's because someone else on your instance already subscribed to them, and has been receiving content updates prior to your finding them.
  
  See, federation on Lemmy (and the rest) works by mirroring content. Everything you see while logged into your instance is hosted on your instance. It's not a window into a community ona remote website, but a copy of one. And the copying starts when the first person on your instance subscribes to the remote community.
  
  I can create a new post, it shows on kbin. However, comments made on lemmy don’t show up in kbin. Comments on kbin show up in lemmy
  
  This is probably just a difference in information processing and updating. Comments from Lemmy should show up on kbin instances. Traffic just may be too high and servers may be triaging things differently. Or maybe there's a new bug.
  
  This is an excellent description, I really like the parallel with dead tree subscriptions.
- Created a second post via lemmy and now comments seem to show up. This is odd but whatever. It's working now!
- I was having the same problem but managed to get it accessible from lemmy.world. It still can't be accessed from sh.itjust.works though, I can't find it when I search for it there
Yes, but the usual [email protected] format wont work. Instead, paste that entire url into search, and you should be able to find and sub to that mag.
- Not working for me, am I searching in the wrong place?
  
  Here's what I am doing
  
  Try changing the drop box to All.
  
  Can’t get it to work either
It should work the same way as adding a community from another lemmy instance.

Go to communities and paste the url https://kbin.social/m/chess in the search box. It won't find anything, but if you change the selection box from communties to all, you should see [email protected] in the result. Click on the and subscribe.

The whole process is still a bit buggy though.
- Yep, changing the select box worked for me! Unfortunately no posts seem to show up.
Yes, you should be able to plug that URL into your search bar (where you search for a community) and be able to subscribe to it.

It might be a two-step process as it is on my instance:

Go to "Communities" (top menubar), plug URL into the search, get no result

go back to the search, type "chess" and one of those results should be from kbin.
Paste the link into the search on lemmy and it should show up.
Hmmm I seem to get stuck with “subscribe pending” when I try to add them here
I had a similar experience getting my own lemmy instance into the network.

Took almost a day and some crossspostings between lemmy.world and my one until everything synced as expected.

Since then everything syncs basically instant.

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