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positive experience with /kbin automatically bringing in older comments and posts to newly subscribed community (kbin.social)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by RoundSparrow@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social
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If anyone votes on an old comment from the source instance, your newly subscribed kbin instance will grab the older message when the new vote comes in. Works with both Lemmy and kbin sources.

If the comment voted on is a reply to a reply, it will load in all the parent comments as well.

If you have a login on the other instance, you can vote and unvote and it will still populate your kbin comments.

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[-] ContentConsumer9999@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Do you know of any way to "force update" threads without having another account? Can you do something similar to force searching communities?

[-] RoundSparrow@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Can you reword your second question? 'force searching communities' - not sure why you would want to force or automate a search.

[-] ContentConsumer9999@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

So when a community isn't in kbin yet you can search @[community name]@[instance] to create it. I was asking if a similar thing is possible with threads.

[-] static@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yea that works for single posts, use the fediverse icon on the remote server for the proper url to search.
You don't get the reply's but you can search like that on a single reply too.

[-] ContentConsumer9999@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

What's the "Fediverse icon"?

[-] static@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For lemmy it's the rainbow coloured hexagon on a post or comment.

[-] ContentConsumer9999@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

For some reason I can only see the icon next to comments but just pasting the top link works for posts.

[-] static@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

yes, if that icon is missing you can just use the url.

[-] RoundSparrow@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Although I've found one area that Lemmy to kbin doesn't seem to work when bringing in older content when a new vote is done.

Instance: StarTrek.website Lemmy. comment thread: https://startrek.website/comment/2051539

The copy on kbin.social does not seem to load the thread that starts with user @jet
https://kbin.social/m/quarks@startrek.website/t/404007/Favorite-sci-fi-film-thats-not-Star-Trek/oldest

Not sure what is going on under the hood where those won't copy into kbin.

[-] static@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think hackertalks.com is misconfigured, their posts do not federate to kbin. And I cannot add their magazines to kbin.social.

My best guess : https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ansible/pull/114

this post was submitted on 10 Sep 2023
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