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How do I follow Kbin magazines from here? (beehaw.org)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I think it is just a delay, and maybe some kbin weirdness. I can browse to https://beehaw.org/c/[email protected] for instance, but not some other magazines including [email protected]. Searching for fedia.io brings up posts but no communities, and even searching for [email protected] which we know is federated here brings up no results regardless of whether I use the "!".

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