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This federation concept does not work as expected for me. If I understand correctly, I can access a community from mastodon, kbin and others. But In practice I get a lot of 404 errors.
For example, I want to access https://kbin.social/m/tech from lemmy. So I could access it by going to https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/c/tech@kbin.social, right? But I just get a "404: couldnt_find_community" error message.
Also the search functionality seems really broken when you want to search a community from another instance, sometimes it's in the results and sometimes it's not. Is there a cache of some kind or a really long delay when a community is new?
kbin is having some issues with the influx of new users. will all smooth out over the coming days / weeks as servers scale and stabilize
I'm having this exact same experience. At least I know it's not me. I'm having it with links not associated with Kbin too, so that isn't the entire problem.
I'm not 100% sure but I think as of now kbin users can view lemmy instances, but lemmy users can't see kbin posts.
Unfortunate but hopefully they implement the feature soon.
As for search, yeah if a community is being fetched for the first time in any instance, it takes a few seconds to fetch all the info. Subsequent times search will show it instant as its already stored in local dB.
I'm surprised that no one made a bot that auto federate the instances, that would fix the search being wonky. But I guess we are in the early days.