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 name@instance.tld) 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?

        • exscape@kbin.socialOP
          2·
          1 year ago

          Haha, uh, it did find a community when I searched for the URL, but it found science@mander.xyz – 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.

          • asjmcguire@kbin.social
            3·
            1 year ago

            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.

      • dm_me_your_secrets@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        The way to do it in kbin is to go to the magazine section specifically. The normal search doesn’t find magazines I believe. Then search in the following format: syncforlemmy@lemmy.world. I use that as an example because I had to learn this very thing a few minutes ago.

        • exscape@kbin.socialOP
          2·
          1 year ago

          That’s exactly what I’ve been doing maybe 15 times since yesterday. It finally worked earlier, but according to a top comment you should not use the magazine search if the magazine doesn’t already exist on kbin.