Basically I want to follow https://kbin.social/m/chess without the assle of browsing a different website.

Is it possible to follow and comment a kbin magazine ou lemmy?

UPDATE: I was able to subscribe to /m/chess on lemmy.world, but I still don’t see any of their posts. Maybe I’ll only receive the new ones? I tried to create a post there and it does show on kbin! However, comments don’t seem to show up on kbin yet, trying to wait it out.

Go to communities and paste the url https://kbin.social/m/chess in the search box. It won’t find anything, but if you change the selection box from communties to all, you should see !chess@kbin.social in the result. Click on the and subscribe.

UPDATE2:

  • I only see new posts, older posts don’t show up. That’s fine

  • I can create a new post, it shows on kbin. However, comments made on lemmy don’t show up in kbin. Comments on kbin show up in lemmy

  • Made a second posts, everything worked fine. Comments show up on kbin just fine. Weird…

  • New posts made on kbin show up on lemmy. Comments made on lemmy on a post created via kbin work fine. They also show up on lemmy. No idea why but I’m happy.

Thanks, everyone!!!

  • Kichae@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    I only see new posts, older posts don’t show up.

    This is a quirk with federation using ActivityPub (which is what both Lemmy and kbin, we well as Mastodon, Calckey, Friendica, PixelFed, PeerTube, and many others use to communicate with each other) in general. Subscriptions work just like magazine or newspaper subscriptions - that is, you don’t get back issues.

    You may be wondering then why you do see older content on remote Lemmy communities. That’s because someone else on your instance already subscribed to them, and has been receiving content updates prior to your finding them.

    See, federation on Lemmy (and the rest) works by mirroring content. Everything you see while logged into your instance is hosted on your instance. It’s not a window into a community ona remote website, but a copy of one. And the copying starts when the first person on your instance subscribes to the remote community.

    I can create a new post, it shows on kbin. However, comments made on lemmy don’t show up in kbin. Comments on kbin show up in lemmy

    This is probably just a difference in information processing and updating. Comments from Lemmy should show up on kbin instances. Traffic just may be too high and servers may be triaging things differently. Or maybe there’s a new bug.