Forgive me if this is truly a stupid question but I cannot find the answer and I have been afraid to ask.
Am attaching a screen shot to assist my babbling below.
When surfing thru the various communities (and please feel free to correct me if I use a wrong term here) I will see many that have the same name but only difference is that at the end of that name, there is an ‘@xyz.ca’ or similar.
I assumed these were just the same communities only started on different servers?
However I have seen several - like the one where my arrow points to that doesn’t have an ‘@‘ location at the end of it. Can someone explain to me the difference here? Thanks
Damn, 20k subs already!?!
I could have sworn it was 7k like 3 days ago.
That (well, this) community was created on lemmy.world and your account is on lemmy.world as well, thus it doesn’t “need”/show the full address.
That’s a good question, I thought I understood how it works and had typed out a pretty long response before I tested it myself, and you’re right it doesn’t work between servers at all for some reason.
Normally you could search an instance up directly between servers and it would propagate, but kbin searches come up blank for your lemmy.world community.
Either kbin is blocking lemmy.world searches or they aren’t federating, or maybe it’s deeper and kbin can’t interact as cleanly with the Lemmyverse as we thought.
Users and communities hosted on the instance you’re viewing (in this case it’s lemmy.world) don’t show their home instance.
i.e. my name appears as just “bewilderedraven” to other lemmy.world users reading this but users logged into other instances (such as lemmy.ml) should see something like “@bewilderedraven@lemmy.world” the some applies to communities.
Lemmy is federated, so there are multiple “similar” communities on different instances. Here you are on lemmy.world if there isnt amy @ … if there is something like @lemmy.ml it is on lemmy.ml. You can subscribe to them on every instance ( only if the instance is blocked ), comment and create posts there
Why doesn’t flyfishing@lemmy.world show up when I log into kbin.social and try to subscribe from that instance?
I started it here: https://lemmy.world/c/flyfishing
Until someone on kbin subscribes to it via putting in the url directly it doesn’t show up as kbin dose not know it exists iirc. Same thing with Lemmy, if someone on your instance isn’t subscribed to a community on another instance then it doesn’t show up until someone dose
Edit: Getting a 404 error when I try to go there to subscribe, as money_loo said its probably a backend issue with kbin
Can I get that process started? Where do I put the url in directly to subscribe from kbin if/when the 404 error is corrected?
The only thing I can think of is kbin isn’t federating with lemmy.world completely. I’m pretty sure kbin stuff should show up on lemmy and vice versa.
I think I got it working: https://kbin.social/search?q=flyfishing%40lemmy.world
Had to search from the address bar by typing the lemmy.world server name in the url.
Subbed from my kbin account for you so it should federate right, now.
Hope this helped!