Battlestations - Lemmy.world

Izzy@lemmy.worldbanned from sitebanned from site to New Communities@lemmy.world – 143 points –

Hello everyone. I am working on reviving the /c/battlestations community which I believe has a potential to be popular. 📺 🖥️

Feel free to stop by and share your setup.

!battlestations@lemmy.world

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Yay! My spouse likes to look at pictures of homes she cant afford for inspiration or to daydream. That sub was pretty much that for me. Thanks for doing this.

I wonder how long federation to kbin will take.
Leaving a comment to remind me to look in a few hours so I can subscribe.

Should be good to go soon. Someone needs to search for the community before it begins indexing. I just did that.

Thanks.

I had clicked on the ! Link. Does that trigger the search / index? Or is something else required?

It's available for me on kbin.social as of this writing, and I subscribed.

As far as I can tell, what one needs to do on kbin is search for communityname@instance. I don't think that "!" goes in the search string.

But that's already run by now.

For people on kbin.social, you should be able to see it at:

https://kbin.social/m/battlestations@lemmy.world

If you're on another kbin instance, do the above search. I'm still a little fuzzy about the right syntax in a comment to produce a link to perform such an initial search in a cross-lemmy/kbin, cross-instance fashion. I think that it should be:

!@battlestations@lemmy.world

Giving the following:

@battlestations

That generated link does work for me on kbin.social, but I could be wrong about it working elsewhere.

I really wish that this particular issue would be made clear, as it's important for community discoverability.

EDIT: Nope, generated link does not work on lemmy.world, so doesn't work on lemmy, at least.

EDIT2: On fedia.io, another kbin instance, the link also doesn't work, so someone on the instance may need to have already subscribed for the link to be auto-generated. The ability to have a link format that directs to one's local instance in a way that works on all lemmy and kbin instances, regardless of whether anyone has subscribed, would be really nice.

EDIT3: Trying:

[battlestations@lemmy.world](/search?q=battlestations%40lemmy.world)

Yields

battlestations@lemmy.world

Which works to generate a search on kbin.social.

It also appears to work on fedia.io, so this is probably the right way to do a link, at least for kbin users.

EDIT4: It also appears to work for lemmy instances! This should probably be the new syntax used on newcommunities@lemmy.world to link to a community!

Awesome! Thank you! Confused Kbin'er here.