dannekrose

dannekrose, 11 months ago

Since I can't see people's comments directly on my instance, I'm going to try to quote the comment here and try to answer it.

Could you maybe include information on how to access Lemmy communities from Kbin? For example, how would go about finding
this Reddit OP's Lemmy community from Kbin.social? It doesn't appear when I search magazines.

I don't know enough about Lemmy to really know. What I can say is that I don't have issues searching for and seeing communities on the lemmy instance beehaw.org. I just tested with a new community from beehaw.org and it showed up for me as expected.

What I can speculate on is the following:

1. Lemmy has the ability to "allow-list" instances and restrict which instances are allowed to federate with it. If the lemmy instance in question has this enabled, I can guess that it wouldn't allow federation from kbin.social. This is speculation however.
2. Kbin doesn't support authorized fetch yet. I don't think that's at play here since I can use curl to see the community, but I can't really tell.
3. That community in question doesn't show up on that instance's list of communities. I suspect it is because that community is marked NSFW and hidden unless you are logged into that instance and have an account.
4. It might be a combination of these as well as the fact that the community is listed as NSFW.

dannekrose, 11 months ago

Thanks for the write-up. I've been using Mastodon quite a bit the last few months, and I'm curious about how kbin interoperates with that with from a user perspective.

What happens if you you follow a kbin user from Mastodon? Do you see just their "posts" or also their replies to threads? Do you see when they post an article? Can a kbin user follow a Mastodon user?

Yes to all of these to the best of my testing!

How do hashtags interact between the two systems?

Hashtags are a good question for sure. It depends on a few factors as best I can tell.

1. If the content was created outside kbin and federated in from a non-kbin instance (Calckey, Mastodon, etc) the microblog post will be routed to a magazine. Magazines can be configured to “listen” for certain hashtags by the owner. If an incoming post has the hashtag, that post will be added to that magazine’s microblog section. If a magazine doesn’t match the hashtag, the post will be added to the magazine called “random” that each kbin instance has as a “catch-all” for incoming content that doesn’t fit elsewhere. A l

Note: There is still much I don’t know about the exact logic used to route these posts to magazines. “How does it decide where to add the post to when there are multiple hashtags which each match separate magazines?” for example.

2. If the content is created on kbin and sent to followers from kbin, it behaves more or less like any other post with hashtags.

What happens if you follow a kbin magazine from Mastodon? I noticed that they appear with a "Group" tag on Mastodon if searching for that "user".

Actually from what I can tell, not much. Unlike gup.pe, magazine accounts don’t boost all the content that gets created in the Magazine. The magazine accounts always shows as zero posts and replies for me.

(Edit: I could navigate to this post from Mastodon and reply to it, but it didn't show up here yet. But maybe that's due to the temporarily broken federation.)

I believe so. My instance doesn’t seem to have issues with federation very much right down as an example