Trying to follow any community/magazine from kbin.social on lemmy.ca keeps ending up with and endless ‘subscribe pending’.

I’ve tried unsubbing and resubbing and leaving it for a few days in case it was moderated (totally get the mods being overwhelmed right now!).

Anyone else running into this? I’m starting to wonder if it’s a glitch or something I’m doing wrong?

  • jjagaimo
    3·
    2 years ago

    kbin itself is not lemmy, it simply uses the same protocol, ActivityPub. Theoretically it should be compatible and it doesn’t seem like theres much issue in other instances, so it might be some kinda traffic issue with the federation between lemmy.ca and kbin.social, or some bug.

    Another thing seems to be that lemmy.ca isn’t grabbing posts from kbin.social communities; [email protected] shows no posts, and theoretically, subscribing from here to there should then federate the community/magazine and show them here, which doesn’t seem to be working. I can’t seem to find the list of instances on the white/blocklist for kbin.social

    • canadorkOP
      2·
      2 years ago

      Yeah, I had wondered if it was Lemmy/kbin weirdness, but lemmy.ml seems to be able to pull in kbin posts, from what I can see not logged in there: https://lemmy.ml/c/[email protected]

      Anyway, I’m sure it’s low-priority for admin right now, with the reddit exodus. I’ll sit patient until someone can take a look.

      • jjagaimo
        1·
        2 years ago

        Weird thing: i edited my comment to mention that [email protected] wasnt working either. It gave a 404 in the browser when going to htttps://lemmy.ca/c/[email protected]

        BUT after that it suddenly started working. The same is not true for some of the other communities like suggestions but id assume itd start working once someone links it in a comment. The freemediaheckyeah community already worked so i assume someone had mentioned it here. Also, kbin has some weirdness going on too; tech has been mentioned here but wholesome and infosec have not, and wholesome doesnt appear in a search. Isnt tbe list of communities supposed to federate when joining a community from one server to another? Anyways, in about 5 minutes Ill edit this comment to contain one of those and then see id it federates.

        ETA:

        [email protected]

        [email protected]

        E2: didnt work