Thanks everyone for the help.
Original post: I want to create a niche community, but considering Lemmy can’t see kbin magazines, wouldn’t it make more sense to make the community on Lemmy, that way people from both Lemmy and kbin can be a part if it?
Maybe I should have posted this on a nostupidquestions community, I don’t know.
OP could you edit your title with an accurate statement? Like: TIL it doesn’t matter if you make your community on Lemmy or kbin, they’re federated and will have equal exposure
That way people will get the right impression even without going to the comments :)
(btw I downvoted your post for now but I upvoted a comment because I felt bad about taking away your karma for asking a totally reasonable question)
Lemmy can see kbin magazines. I am posting this from Lemmy!
Well I feel stupid, is this new that Lemmy can see magazines? Originally could they not?
When I joined I could, then I think maybe federation was wonky for a bit there, but it seems to be all good now.
(hi from lemmy)
Yeah, kbin is only something like a month old and our dev did NOT expect the influx that he got. He knew about the stuff at reddit, but thought since lemmy was both older and everyone’s first mention, he might get a few.
Nah. Thousands in a matter of days. He had to turn cloudflare on for a few days, which would break the ability to federate but would also keep the server from certain doom while he scrambled to upgrade things. Guy’s got my sheepish respect.
So that’s the majority of why we went dark on you guys, but it feels like we’re going pretty good now. Still working things out, and from what I hear there are also issues on lemmy’s side — bugs in the default config/in 0.18.0, lemmy.ml specifically and possibly deliberately blocking outgoing kbin info — that are adding additional difficulty between us.
Especially with lemmy.ml. It seems to have gotten a fuckton of communities I would have been super interested in, but until the devs decide to unblock kbin.bot, nothing I interact with on .ml will reach back to them, nor would any of our own posts/communities. It’s functioning like a noncommittal softblock, and since the instance ignoring our entire platform seems to be a giant one, it’s damaging.
Hi back from kbin, though :)
Thanks for the details. I’m on kbin too but I’m a sucker for an app so lemmy sunk my time. Looking forward to the day I’m using Sync for both platforms.
I do get that, especially when the overall reason for all this was the apps. And of course we don’t really even have an API atm in order to churn them out at the pace Lemmy is. I only know of Artemis for kbin, although I’m aching to try it when it’s done
Lemmy can see kbin magazines. I’m on a lemmy instance right now.
kbin.social itself has had some federation issues in the past month, but I think that’s more growing pains of a new platform than anything inherent in the system itself.
Yeah this seems to be a temporary thing. I’ve been following the federation issues we’ve been having on kbin and I’m hoping they can resolved as everything stabilizes.
I’m unsure if the ingest from kbin > Lemmy was working because last I checked they were returning error responses on requests that had “kbinbot” in the name.
I’m unsure if the ingest from kbin > Lemmy was working because last I checked they were returning error responses on requests that had “kbinbot” in the name.
It’s only lemmy.ml, not all of lemmy, that’s returning a forbidden response on requests from kbin.
