I’ve seen this mentioned a few times already: people wondering why certain communities don’t show up in their instance. You need to first search for that community via the magnifying glass icon and type in “[email protected]

Notice the exclamation mark at the beginning. Might take a few seconds. This will teach your instance about the remote community.

  • Zak8022
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    21 year ago

    AFAIK, it does. But the url structure is slightly different. Instead of
    https://kbin.social/c/m[email protected]
    It would be https://kbin.social/m/m[email protected] with an “m” instead of a “c”.

    I’m still learning, so someone please correct me if I’m wrong.

      • Zak8022
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        11 year ago

        For real. I feel like I recall a browser extension doing something similar for Mastodon. But I don’t have the coding knowledge to adapt that to this use case.

        • lixus98
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          1 year ago

          Interesting, I might look into modifying the extension for it to work with kbin

          • Zak8022
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            11 year ago

            Sweet! I would be interested, and might be able to help test. Let me know if something comes of it.

            • lixus98
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              21 year ago

              Nice, I got it working with this type of mention [email protected]. But I want to see if I can convert the link form too, I will probably make a post once is done.

    • lixus98
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      11 year ago

      So I managed to get the extension to an usable state.
      It adds that little kbin icon to the beginning of the url or mention, if you click that icon you will go to the kbin link of that community. It works for all websites so if you are browsing on a lemmy site it should work there too.
      I am currently working on testing it and publishing it to the chrome and firefox stores.