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.
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.
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.
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.