Hey everyone. I’m new to all this - as are most people I realize - but I’ve been really enjoying Lemmy so far. I’m subscribed to alternatives here of subreddits I frequented on Reddit and been participating in discussions and engaging with the communities as well. Overall, it’s been good!
That said I’ve recently learned of another federated community style site (I think?) known as kbin (with other instances available. I’d like to subscribe to communities on this platform as well but I’m unsure if these are able to interface with each other.
For example: I learned of the kbin community for Disneyland. I followed a similar process to subscribing to other instances of Lemmy on my lemmy.ca account (pasting into the search bar) and was able to find and subscribe to the Disneyland community, however there are currently no posts there (compared to the community on kbin with multiple posts already) leading me to think something may have gone awry or the two platforms are unable to interface with each other.
Any and all help is appreciated if something like this is possible. I’ve heard kbin can work with lemmy, but perhaps not the other way around? Let me know and thank you.
Ah I see. I just tested by making a pretty general post/topic on the sub which showed on both kbin and Lemmy. Does this mean I’ve created a new community for lemmy by doing this (or at least a copy community of the one on kbin just reposting the discussions and sharing the information from one platform to the other?)
EDIT: I think I understand now and understand I didn’t “create” the new community.