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Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

One can follow Lemmy (and I presume Kbin, though that I have not tested myself) communities directly from any other fedi instance. For example, I am following @technology directly from my account here.

Now that Lemmy/Kbin have become pretty active, this might be a decent way of getting new fedi users to have a better on-boarding experience.

Just suggest a few active communities to them, and bam, plenty of interesting stuff gets boosted into their timeline. 🤔

@rysiek @technology

Lemmy and KBIN appear to federate with each other (which I hadn't expected, but I guess both are running AP?)

@rysiek @technology I heard about #kbin and tried loading kbin.social/ only to see the landing page of #cloudflare . Pretty disappointing. If people want to avoid the centralization of sites like reddit... well this is centralization on steroids.

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@federico3 you can bet kbin.social is being hammered with insane traffic. Reddit about Kbin migration got banned and then un-banned, so Streisand effect iis at work.

There are other Kbin instances, though there are not many of them:
the-federation.info/platform/1

So people need to start setting up Kbin instances to spread the load. 🙂

@technology

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Does that mean we're spamming your timeline when we reply here? 😀

@rysiek what do you get from that feed? I only get a set of "boosts", that seem like they're comments to the articles themselves? Not sure I'm getting any of the articles. I've also tried following a couple of other channels/magazines/"groups"? on beehaw.org, and they're all showing up as empty (I'm on glitch-soc, not standard-mastodon, though).
Also, the docs on beehaw said to add `!technology@beehaw.org` instead of `@technology` ? But the leading @ worked from my instance-search-bar.
anyway, sorry for info-dump, but I'm curious about other people who've gotten successfully from mastodon to lemmy/kbin

@matt_panaro I'm getting all the comments boosted - I'm not sure I've seen any articles either. Following #Kbin magazines doesn't appear to do anything at all. I created a Kbin account so I can follow things more successfully for now...

@technology @rysiek

@rysiek how do you deal with the absolute deluge of no context comments boosted to your main feed? I've tried following the same Beehaw community but gave up after a literal minute.

@noodlejetski yeah, it's rough right now. I might un-follow the community, my feed is pretty lively as it is anyway