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How to view a magazine which doesn't show up in search? (kbin.earth)
submitted 1 week ago by green_copper@kbin.earth to c/AskMbin@fedia.io
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I noticed that not all magazines of federated (Lemmy) instances show up in search. So is there a way to open them anyway in Mbin and trigger fetching of content?
I already tried to open the /m/magazine@federated.instance URL directly but it only returns a 404.

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[–] otter@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I'll need to double check for Mbin, but for Lemmy:

  • a community doesn't start federating to an instance until someone from that other instance tries to access it (in the same way you described)
  • once someone does that, it starts federating and takes a few seconds to a few minutes to show up

Assuming mbin is the same, you could check back in a few minutes?

[–] jwr1@kbin.earth 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes, Mbin is basically the same.

All you need to do is search the magazine in the global (non-magazine) search field, and then subscribe to it and activity from then on will start federating.

[–] green_copper@kbin.earth 4 points 1 week ago

Ahhhhh. I used the magazine search.
Thank you very much.

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)
[–] green_copper@kbin.earth 2 points 1 week ago

Your link works (even if just the post 'Outgoing federation test' shows up), but unfortunately not the community I would like to access.