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 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.orginstead 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@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…
Does that mean we’re spamming your timeline when we reply here? 😀
@myk yup! 🙂
Lemmy and KBIN appear to federate with each other (which I hadn’t expected, but I guess both are running AP?)
@vfrmedia @technology yup. It’s ActivityPub all the way down.
@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.
@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/184So people need to start setting up Kbin instances to spread the load. 🙂
