Why YSK: making the most of the fediverse means aggregating content from as many places as possible, but it’s not an intuitive process right now, especially for those using apps like Jerboa or Mlem.

I have been seeing some comments from people struggling to subscribe to kbin magazines from Lemmy so here’s a step-by-step of how I’ve been doing it:

  1. Note the name of the kbin magazine you want to subscribe to (example: kbin.social/m/books)
  2. Log into your Lemmy instance from a browser
  3. The Lemmy instance you are registered with will be the first part of the URL and the kbin community will be the second part. Example: I’m registered with lemmy.world so to register with the kbin Books magazine I would type https://lemmy.world/c/books@kbin.social
  4. From there, just hit subscribe and it will start showing up anywhere you’re logged into your Lemmy instance (I use Jerboa).

Hopefully this helps spread the word!

  • cyps@typemi.me
    1·
    1 year ago

    Still the same issue I’ve been dealing with.

    On my personal instance, not Lemmy world, I am able to search for and find kbin magazines, for an example https://kbin.social/m/tech

    However, when I then go to https://typemi.me/c/tech@kbin.social and hit subscribe it always gives me the yellow subscriber pending. Leaving it there for days doesn’t change it nor cancelling it and trying over and over.

    I’ve even taking to watching the logs while I try the process to see if I’m getting any errors in the backend but nothing stands out. Google search doesn’t turn up anything relevant and I’ve briefly scanned the GitHub issues to no avail.