How does this work on kbin at the moment?
My understanding is that, at least on Lemmy, you should be able to search for a full community name, wait a while, and have it show up and start federating. I’ve been searching for two communities (in the format [email protected]) on kbin since yesterday and it still shows no matches.
Both are small (<20 subscribers) and currently inactive (no new posts in a week). Do I need to wait until there is new content in them?
The way to do it in kbin is to go to the magazine section specifically. The normal search doesn’t find magazines I believe. Then search in the following format:
syncforlemmy@lemmy.world
. I use that as an example because I had to learn this very thing a few minutes ago.That’s exactly what I’ve been doing maybe 15 times since yesterday. It finally worked earlier, but according to a top comment you should not use the magazine search if the magazine doesn’t already exist on kbin.
Good to know. Thanks!