Anyone know why I keep getting this message when I try to access a community/magazine through kbin?

  • blazera@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, i started on some lemmy instances and it was a problem there, so far i havent run into it on kbin yet. But then, theres content in lemmy communities that dont show up on kbin

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      1 year ago

      Which lemmy instances were you on? It could be you were on smaller instances? Kbin.social is a large instance, so most of the forums are already added there. They can improve by making the UI more clear hopefully in the future, but for the smaller instances, you have to do a search for the link of the forum you want, then subscribe to it. Thats the only way it becomes searchable on the instance. Since kbin is working for you, stay on kbin. I’m using kbin.social too and a small instance called lemmy.studio. If you have more questions about adding the community/magazine, make sure to ask :)

      What kind of content do you mean is missing?

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        1 year ago

        No I get how it works now and how to add communities that dont appear in search, but it’s dumb, because I go to one of several sites that lists all of the fediverse communities to find the url to add…why cant the instances access that list of communities?

        as for missing content, if you go to many of the communities from kbin, you’ll see “The magazine from the federated server may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.” If you go to the original instance you’ll see many posts that dont show up when viewed from kbin. some communities will not show any posts from the original instance on kbin. And even if I go to the trouble of hopping multiple instances to see more of the content on those communities, Im signed up on kbin, I cant interact with the content from another instance.