Hi all,

Today I found out that there is a community over at lemmy I would very much like to join (via Kbin of course). I had searched for that community earlier through Kbin using the ‘Local and Federated’ option when searching but I hadn’t seen any results.

This made me wonder how many communities I thought didn’t exist in the threadiverse actually do. I searched for another community by visiting Lemmy directly and lo and behold, that was indeed the case. These communities exist over at Lemmy but I cannot find them using the Magazine search, even if I select ‘Local and federated’.

Is there a way to search for/add/subscribe to communities at Lemmy, or elsewhere at the fedi/threadiverse from Kbin? Am I missing some feature or hack?

Thanks in advance for any tips

  • kopper of sub-standard quality@brain.d.on-t.work
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    1 year ago

    there actually is a way to “backfill” content, being the outbox. (although it was not meant to be used this way, from what i can see from reading what little documentation is out there)

    lemmy uses it to federate about 10 or so (i think it was?) of the latest posts, and most microblog implementations use to federate the “pinned” posts of an account

    activitypub has quite a lot of quirks, both spec-wise and implementation wise, and there are many reasons including an apparent near civil war inside the working group which resulted in this messy state it’s ended up in

    honestly the fact that this protocol works at all is a miracle