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  • tal@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    It’s available for me on kbin.social as of this writing, and I subscribed.

    As far as I can tell, what one needs to do on kbin is search for communityname@instance. I don’t think that “!” goes in the search string.

    But that’s already run by now.

    For people on kbin.social, you should be able to see it at:

    https://kbin.social/m/battlestations@lemmy.world

    If you’re on another kbin instance, do the above search. I’m still a little fuzzy about the right syntax in a comment to produce a link to perform such an initial search in a cross-lemmy/kbin, cross-instance fashion. I think that it should be:

    !@battlestations@lemmy.world

    Giving the following:

    @battlestations

    That generated link does work for me on kbin.social, but I could be wrong about it working elsewhere.

    I really wish that this particular issue would be made clear, as it’s important for community discoverability.

    EDIT: Nope, generated link does not work on lemmy.world, so doesn’t work on lemmy, at least.

    EDIT2: On fedia.io, another kbin instance, the link also doesn’t work, so someone on the instance may need to have already subscribed for the link to be auto-generated. The ability to have a link format that directs to one’s local instance in a way that works on all lemmy and kbin instances, regardless of whether anyone has subscribed, would be really nice.

    EDIT3: Trying:

    [battlestations@lemmy.world](/search?q=battlestations%40lemmy.world)

    Yields

    battlestations@lemmy.world

    Which works to generate a search on kbin.social.

    It also appears to work on fedia.io, so this is probably the right way to do a link, at least for kbin users.

    EDIT4: It also appears to work for lemmy instances! This should probably be the new syntax used on newcommunities@lemmy.world to link to a community!