I started a new KBIN instance. It has one magazine, random, because I created it. Anyone coming here will find no interesting magazines. It will be boring.
How do I find interesting magazines on other instances? Say, I want to find a magazine about Linux, somewhere on another KBIN or Lemmy server and add it here. If I search in the magazine search, no magazines show up. If I search using the topmost global search, no magazines show up.
How does a new instance get the list of magazines that are available from the other KBIN and Lemmy instances without visiting each one and creating a list to use for a full name search?
Or is my instance just broken?
I think that’s just the way it works right now. It’s the same on kbin.social - I need to know the magazine and domain to “search” for it.
Not good for an application promising to be a “content aggregator”
This will lead to a number of magazines with the same names and topics existing all over the place because people can’t see that a relevant one already exists. This will make a big mess and people will miss out on discussions.
And who would want to join any instance other than the biggest if they have to visit the biggest anyway to find interesting magazines?
And even on kbin.social, everyone is missing out on Lemmy ones. :(
Do you know if Lemmy can find magazines on KBIN or other Lemmy servers simply by searching by name?
On Kbin looking for lemmy or other federations: /m/[email protected]
On kbin looking for the geddit info community on geddit.social: https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]On lemmy looking for /m/KbinMeta: /c/[email protected]
https://geddit.social/c/[email protected]Not good for an application promising to be a “content aggregator”.
Agreed. I hope proper indexing (and therefore searching) of federated magazines/communities comes soon.
Do you know if Lemmy can find magazines on KBIN or other Lemmy servers simply by searching by name?
I’m not sure if Lemmy has the same issue or not.
Sounds like federation does not work for you.
No this is how federation works. There’s no way for a new instance to know about any other instance or community. A user has to search for communities to notify the instance of external instances/communities. Once it knows about them, they’ll show up in the community list
Follow admins and moderators on other instances, that starts federation.
You posted this on the /m/kbinMeta on kbin.social from your instance. So you’re right in the fact that when you search it does only show the local ones. As your instance starts federation by users and interactions, things should pick up a little. Then users on your instance will soon start to see content and make magazines and groups there too.
I see a lot of magazines on your instance now.
Yep. I did what @Granite did. I went around to a number of other instances and manually entered the full magazine names that looked most used. I also looked at the list of subreddits that moved to their own KBIN and Lemmy instances, and connected to them
