Comment on Lemmy.world no longer federating with Kbin? If yes, why??
justlookingfordragon@lemmy.world 6 months agoHm… seems to be an issue with these specific communities. I can open other magazines just fine - for example !breathofthewild@kbin.social still works without issues, but !cars@kbin.social just gave me two error messages before it properly opened, and now shows zero posts, comments or subscribers despite having 300+ posts when viewed via kbin.social/m/cars instead. The content simply doesn’t appear for me when viewed via Lemmy.world
tun@lemm.ee 6 months ago
From lemm.ee instance !cars@kbin.social has 0 subscribers and 0 posts.
justlookingfordragon@lemmy.world 6 months ago
…and zero users per week, which is wrong even when viewed from “this side” of the Fediverse, as many people have clicked that link by now. Hm. Seems like it is not “just” a federation issue when the Lemmy.world version of the magazine doesn’t even count visitors ON Lemmy.world properly.
tun@lemm.ee 6 months ago
When I link to cars magazine from lemmy it should be kbin.social/m/cars but appeared as kbin.social/c/cars which does not exists.
Other Redditmigration and breathofthewild links do not have this problem.
justlookingfordragon@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The “proper” way to link magazines from lemmy would be lemmy.world/c/cars@kbin.social - this is supposed to fetch a clone of the kbin magazine but display it in the lemmy.world UI. Using a “c” is correct here, but something still doesn’t work properly for this particular instance.
If you write it as kbin.social/m/cars, then you’re directed to the original magazine with the kbin UI.
The same works the other way around too: lemmy.world/c/support will open the support-community on lemmy.world in its original state, and kbin.social/m/support@lemmy.world will open the LW-support community clone as a magazine on kbin, with the kbin UI. (you might need to copypaste that last link instead of clicking it, as LW seems to “fix” the link by automatically converting it into lemmy.world/c/support@lemmy.world )
Long story short, the c/w thing is not the issue as it works for other communities and magazines just fine. Still, somehow the content in this case doesn’t federate properly … maybe someone who can take a look at the actual code might have an idea why? I mean, sooner or later this needs to be fixed. The magazines listed in the original comment are surely not the only ones that are affected, and any magazine that looks dead and abandoned from this side of the Fediverse, is a magazine that won’t gain any subscribers, posts and comments FROM this side of the Fediverse, defeating the idea behind Federation. It slows down growth.