One can follow Lemmy (and I presume Kbin, though that I have not tested myself) communities directly from any other fedi instance. For example, I am following @technology directly from my account here.
Now that Lemmy/Kbin have become pretty active, this might be a decent way of getting new fedi users to have a better on-boarding experience.
Just suggest a few active communities to them, and bam, plenty of interesting stuff gets boosted into their timeline. 🤔
Does that mean we’re spamming your timeline when we reply here? 😀
@myk yup! 🙂
Lemmy and KBIN appear to federate with each other (which I hadn’t expected, but I guess both are running AP?)
@vfrmedia @technology yup. It’s ActivityPub all the way down.
@rysiek @technology I heard about #kbin and tried loading https://kbin.social/ only to see the landing page of #cloudflare . Pretty disappointing. If people want to avoid the centralization of sites like reddit… well this is centralization on steroids.
@federico3 you can bet kbin.social is being hammered with insane traffic. Reddit about Kbin migration got banned and then un-banned, so Streisand effect iis at work.
There are other Kbin instances, though there are not many of them:
https://the-federation.info/platform/184So people need to start setting up Kbin instances to spread the load. 🙂
@rysiek @federico3 @technology Doesn’t look like it’s been detected/listed there yet, but I saw that @jerry set up https://fedia.io
