I took a quick look while it was up and it was just a user guide, similar to the lemmymigration subreddit

      • Barbarian
        2·
        2 years ago

        They can and do. Seen quite a few Kbin users wandering around here.

    • Mane25@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 years ago

      Since it is part of the federation, though, Lemmy users can subscribe to kbin communities (called magazines) and vice versa.

      How does one do that?

      • Barbarian
        1·
        2 years ago

        It’s bugging out right now, probably because of the massive amount of traffic, but once things calm down you should be able to search for a magazine by full URL (https://kbin.social/m/gaming, for example) in communities, switch all search settings to “All”, wait for your instance to pull in the magazine and click through to the federated URL (should look like https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected], assuming you’re on lemmy.world)

        Basically, just like adding a community nobody else on your instance has added before.

        • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
          1·
          2 years ago

          You actually have to do a weird little ritual ATM. You search it by URL (HTTP like you did or like [email protected], I’m not clear on which), it will return nothing, and then you leave the page and come back a few minutes later. After that you can just search it normally.

          Unfortunately kbin.social specifically is having a federation problem right now.