Trying to follow any community/magazine from kbin.social on lemmy.ca keeps ending up with and endless ‘subscribe pending’.
I’ve tried unsubbing and resubbing and leaving it for a few days in case it was moderated (totally get the mods being overwhelmed right now!).
Anyone else running into this? I’m starting to wonder if it’s a glitch or something I’m doing wrong?
The top post here: https://lemmy.ca/post/597318
Says “Lemmy users can subscribe to kbin communities”, but like you, I can’t quite seem to get it working…
Thanks for pointing that out. So definitely seems like a bug or something then. Guess I’m glad I’m not alone, but sorry you’re running into it too!
kbin itself is not lemmy, it simply uses the same protocol, ActivityPub. Theoretically it should be compatible and it doesn’t seem like theres much issue in other instances, so it might be some kinda traffic issue with the federation between lemmy.ca and kbin.social, or some bug.
Another thing seems to be that lemmy.ca isn’t grabbing posts from kbin.social communities; !tech@kbin.social shows no posts, and theoretically, subscribing from here to there should then federate the community/magazine and show them here, which doesn’t seem to be working. I can’t seem to find the list of instances on the white/blocklist for kbin.social
Yeah, I had wondered if it was Lemmy/kbin weirdness, but lemmy.ml seems to be able to pull in kbin posts, from what I can see not logged in there: https://lemmy.ml/c/kbinMeta@kbin.social
Anyway, I’m sure it’s low-priority for admin right now, with the reddit exodus. I’ll sit patient until someone can take a look.
Weird thing: i edited my comment to mention that !tech@lemmy.fmhy.ml wasnt working either. It gave a 404 in the browser when going to htttps://lemmy.ca/c/tech@lemmy.fmhy.ml
BUT after that it suddenly started working. The same is not true for some of the other communities like suggestions but id assume itd start working once someone links it in a comment. The freemediaheckyeah community already worked so i assume someone had mentioned it here. Also, kbin has some weirdness going on too; tech has been mentioned here but wholesome and infosec have not, and wholesome doesnt appear in a search. Isnt tbe list of communities supposed to federate when joining a community from one server to another? Anyways, in about 5 minutes Ill edit this comment to contain one of those and then see id it federates.
ETA:
E2: didnt work
Yeah I’ve noticed that. Whenever I’ve gone to interact with say lemmy.ml it seems to work fine. Perhaps an inbound configuration thing that is specific to lemmy.ca - @smorks@lemmy.ca ?
yeah i just tested it on https://sh.itjust.works/ and it works fine there too. will do some digging into it to see if i can figure it out.
there also seems to be some issues searching lemmy.ca stuff from mastodon servers too, so maybe it’s all related.
if you need a 3rd party to help test schtuff out ill me online for a bit. Here or @tezoatlipoca@mas.to
Thanks for looking into it!
ok, i believe i know why it’s happening. kbin.social appears to be using cloudflare as a proxy, and for some reason when accessing it from the server that lemmy.ca is running on, it returns a “cloudflare is verifying the connection” type page, which obviously isn’t the the response that lemmy is looking for.
i’m not sure how to get around this, and not sure why it works on other servers? i’ll keep poking around to see if i can get around this somehow.
Yeah, the kbin admin/developer had to enable cloudflare’s ddos protection temporarily to prevent the site from going down due to a huge influx of traffic from reddit. Once things stabilize it should go back to normal.
