Yup, I'm unsure how I'm supposed to subscribe to a remote magazine when it doesn't exist on kbin. But it does not exist because nobody subscribed?
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It works based on search. Once at least one person searches for an off-instance mag using the exact name in the @[email protected] format, and they subscribe, it should start getting federated.
How long does that take? I just searched for @AmItheAsshole and am waiting for it to show up.
It can take a minute, depending on how loaded yours/that instance is. When it was slow I just left the search open in a tab for a bit and do something else, and it would appear by the time I'd be back.
Alas, one of the most overloaded out there - kbin.social
Been an hour and nothing yet.
It looks like it hadn't been subscribed to by anyone on this kbin. I just subscribed to it for and it now exists here. No content come through yet, but hopefully it will get some soon
edit - yes, I know it says it belongs to ernest, but that's the way things work when the local copy is created.
To answer your question directly - I searched in kbin for [email protected] (or was it @[email protected] ?) - and then hit the subscrivbe button
Yes, nobody subscribed to it because as @Armaell says, you can't subscribe to a magazine that hasn't been federated yet.
I also hope we will see the current content here! (It's in Italian though :D)
Yes you can. You have to trigger the federation by entering the url to it into search (the url from the instance its on, not the kbin.social one it would have) or its exact name in the @[email protected] format. That's how off-instance content gets federated. Someone needs to tell your server, it exists, and that they want it.
Fantastic, thanks! Probably that's why it was never picked up - I was always searching either using @feddit.it or [email protected] but never using the first @ symbol.
I think certain instances are not being federated with Kbin.social. For instance, it doesn't seem like anything from https://lemmit.online is reachable. Same with https://infosec.pub.
EDIT: Correction. I think bots from those instances are not visible here. But I am seeing posts from regular user.
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