lastrogue

Yeah he’s dead along with them. He was down there.

I just boosted your comment by clicking boost. No idea what it does but you have a shiny (1) next to boost now.

I’m still learning this myself. So only speaking from limited experience.

But from what I understand, in the case of Lemmy, KBin, Mastodon, and a few others, they all use the ActivityPub network protocol and that is what essentially connects them all together.

I am only speculating, but I expect that there is some improvements needed in that protocol along with some standardization between dissimilar platforms to facilitate better visibility between those dissimilar platforms.

On the flip side, even Lemmy to Lemmy instances have issues showing communities from other lemmy instances. Which, leads me to suspect a problem either in configuration of the instances, or in the underlying protocol (ActivityPub).

Edit: from the kbinmeta magazine, here’s more details on plans for the search feature here.

https://kbin.social/m/fediverse/t/511/Kbin-Roadmap-2023

Pretty sure OP and others above are talking about from smart enabled media devices like Amazon firestick or google’s equivalent chromecast, a hardware device you plugin to your tv, not the chromecast capability.

It has gaps in communities, and is not completely federated for all instances, but if you click on the Magazines button at the top (desktop view) or click on this link:

https://kbin.social/magazines

Then you can search from there. You will see other instances come up in the search result. It feels cludgy, not because of kbin, but I think mostly how federation between other instances goes. But I suspect that will improve with time.

That would be frustrating. I did not have the same experience. It was fairly easy for me.

That said, the admin of this instance and developer of kbin has said that they are doing some stress testing and additional troubleshooting that will impact performance. So I would venture to bet you ran into either part of that testing, or a peak load time.

All that testing needs to be done, but should pass.