Subscribing to small (previously unseen by kbin) communities

exscape@kbin.social to /kbin meta@kbin.social – 13 points –

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?

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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.

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.