How does this work on kbin at the moment?
My understanding is that, at least on Lemmy, you should be able to search for a full community name, wait a while, and have it show up and start federating. I’ve been searching for two communities (in the format [email protected]) on kbin since yesterday and it still shows no matches.
Both are small (<20 subscribers) and currently inactive (no new posts in a week). Do I need to wait until there is new content in them?
Ah!
And if you search for the original community url? For example: https://beehaw.org/c/science
Haha, uh, it did find a community when I searched for the URL, but it found [email protected] – that’s pretty bizarre.
I think this is either a bug (I mean, in one sense it’s certainly a bug) or just that something needs to change in the community before it shows up and is created locally (which kind of is a bug too).
If the kbin codebase wasn’t so complex I’d try to check the code to see how this all works.
it’s probably related to the bug that is known about and getting fixed - that kbin is currently case sensitive - which breaks things a bit when it comes to remote communities.