Given both kbin and lemmy are part of the fediverse, I would expect to be able to subscribe to https://kbin.social/m/tech by searching for !tech@kbin.social - but nothing shows up.
What am I doing wrong?
You are doing nothing wrong. Due to the load, kbin.social enabled Cloudflare protection which breaks their federating with other servers. Until they turn that off, they won’t properly propagate to other servers.
Good to know - thanks!
same here. I also want to follow a lot of useful magazines of kbin.
Kbin isn’t playing nicely with federating at the moment. What I’ve been reading is that the cloud flair ddos protection is disrupting the automated requests from the instance.
Take a look at https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3020 it has some insight.
From what I’ve noticed, if its the first time someone has searched for it, it may not appear initially. You basically just prompted the servers to talk to each other. Give it five mins then search for the name of the community directly, i.e. Tech, and it should show up as Tech @kbin.social
What’s the difference between kbin and lemmy? Tried to look it up, but it seems most treat them as interchangable
I guess that’s the wonder of ActivityPub?