Unless lemmy.ml decides to unfederate from lemmy.wtf you should be able to subscribe to any community on lemmy.ml using your lemmy.wtf account. And it even appears like lemmy.wtf already knows about the community on lemmy.ml. Otherwise you would have needed to search once for it (from lemmy.wtf) using the full URL.
Well, you appear to be logged in on lemmy.wtf and you don’t need to be loged in on lemmy.ml to access (subscribe to) their GW2 community using the link (This is your local copy:) above.
Maybe federation (syncing) doesn’t work properly at the moment. Many instances kinda struggle at the moment due to the high number of new users joining the fediverse (leaving reddit).
Sometimes this takes quite a while and when you refresh your browser window (while the “busy” animation is still playing) the status turns to “Subscribe Pending” (yelllow). From my experience this already counts as a “success” and will eventually turn into “Subscribed” (green) later.
I created !guildwars2 because !guildwars2 does not have en active moderator and lemmy.ml itself is having a tough time dealing with the influx of new users, making the site very sluggish. It’s getting better now, but the point of Lemmy (the Fediverse) is to spread out among multiple servers.
In the case of !guildwars2, which is different from Lemmy, I didn’t realize it existed because a bug disabled federation between kbin and Lemmy. Were that to happen again, everyone on Lemmy would be cut off from !guildwars2.
kbin: This is a very early beta version, and a lot of features are currently broken or in active development, such as federation. Source…
!guildwars2 does have 17 more subscribers, but !guildwars2 have twice the amount of comments ;)
Edit: Disclaimer: I am the maintainer (administrator) of lemmy.wtf
Yeah, syncing (federation) between lemmy instances and kbin.social has only just started to work (again). I made this list to document which “lemmy reachable” GW2 communities I could find and cross-posted it to all 3 communities.
I hope that at least one will survive, since I’m not intending to ever go back to reddit.
Well, I’m currently subscribed to all 3 and since federation now works with kbin.social I can access their GW2 community just like it were on a native lemmy instance. Which is pretty cool.
I’m subscribed to the ml as well as kbin and have accounts in both but I can’t seem to view posts from the ml there alongside the kbin ones. I can see that the ml is linked and I can subscribe to it, but how do I get the kbin to show a merger of both?
Also shouldn’t we link the wtf instance too in the kbin?
Usually you don’t need accounts on other instances to interact with their communities, e. g. my account is on lemmy.world, but I’m subscribed to 3 GW2 communities on 3 different instances one of which even being a different platform (kbin and not lemmy).
These communities now appear as if they were on my instance, but are in fact local copies which are synchronized/federated using the ActivityPub protocol.
Note that these communities are not merged, i .e. they still appear as separate communities, but there is a (pretty popular) feature request for this on GitHub.
Support for grouping communities / multi-communities #818
I don’t know whether federation from lemmy to kbin is currently supported. I’m only using the other direction.
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