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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](https://beehaw.org/c/techno (mstdn.social)

submitted 1 year ago by rysiek@mstdn.social to c/technology@beehaw.org

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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. 🤔

#Fediverse

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[–] myk@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] rysiek@mstdn.social 1 points 1 year ago

@myk yup! 🙂

[–] matt_panaro@octodon.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@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](/c/technology@beehaw.org) instead of [@technology](https://beehaw.org/c/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

[–] chris@fedia.io 1 points 1 year ago

@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

[–] federico3@mastodon.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@rysiek @technology I heard about #kbin and tried loading https://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.

[–] rysiek@mstdn.social 1 points 1 year ago

@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:
https://the-federation.info/platform/184

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

@technology

[–] vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@rysiek @technology

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

[–] rysiek@mstdn.social 2 points 1 year ago

@vfrmedia @technology yup. It's ActivityPub all the way down.