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How do you subscribe to a community outside of your instance without getting to it from an internal link? (readit.buzz)

submitted 2 years ago by godofthegloaming@readit.buzz to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social

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I found a community on lemmy.world I'd like to join, but I can't figure out how to open it in my kbin instance so that I can subscribe to it. I tried to paste the link into the search bar, but it came up with "empty." I also tried to modify a link to a different community on lemmy.world that I had accessed via kbin, but just came up with a 404 error. Am I missing something?

(Sorry if this isn't the right place for this, I'm still getting the feel of things here.)

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[–] DrNeurohax@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

On desktop, hit the search icon in the top right and past the name in.

The problem people have is that I believe Lemmy uses a "!" at the start, but kbin uses an "@".

Example: @technology@lemmy.world and NOT !technology@lemmy.world

Edit:
You can also do it in the url bar like this:
https://kbin.social/m/technology@lemmy.world

[–] godofthegloaming@readit.buzz 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Thank you, the lack of an @ symbol was the problem! I'd tried it without the exclamation point but hadn't tried substituting an @ symbol. And it seems like the link to it from my reddit instance didn't actually exist until I managed to get to it form the search bar.

I can't see any posts in the community from kbin for some reason, though -- do communities federate separately from instances as a whole?

[–] DrNeurohax@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Glad it worked!

I think it takes time for the instances to sync if you're the first person subscribing to a magazine/community, especially if you're the first to link up with that whole instance from your home instance. Once they do their first sync, it updates much more quickly.

Right now, I hear there's some lag with the first sync, so it could take 15 minutes to 2+ hours. I know the devs are working on it.

In other words, if the servers don't know each other exist, they don't have each other's data. Once they are aware of each other, they sync up. If someone on your home instance already made the introduction, that first sync is quicker.