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I was a regular on lemmy.world prior to moving to Mbin, and I like how everything's in one place! I just have to ask, if I were to make an Mbin community (or magazine as they call it here) could users from other platforms join and engage with the content of my community? Thanks!

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[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Oh yes! Look for instance !AskMbin@fedia.io, I was able to post there from Lemmy

[–] secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 4 days ago

Hmmm... It's not showing any post for my instance, SDF :/

[–] dawnslayer@kbin.earth 4 points 1 week ago
[–] Pogogunner@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 week ago

Yep. Some responses may be delayed from being seen for a short time while the data federates, but everyone will be able to see & respond.

[–] gon@lemm.ee 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I believe so, at least theoretically...

I can access some magazines on Lemmy, such as !jazz@kbin.earth, though I don't see any posts on Lemm.ee... Could be a matter of time, it can take some time to federate. I think it should be possible, though.

Edit: I can confirm it is now federating! I can't see older posts, but since I subbed to the mag on Lemm.ee, I can see new activity on the mag.

[–] dawnslayer@kbin.earth 5 points 1 week ago

Oh! That's great!

[–] Pamasich@kbin.earth 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

They can, but they might have trouble discovering it. Other instances won't become aware of your magazine until one of their users searches for it explicitly, and even then posts won't be federated until someone subscribes. So you've got some advertisement to do.

This is a general problem though which Lemmy suffers from too. Lemmy has this problem less because there's third-party websites which list all Lemmy communities and you can browse them there. But those don't support Mbin magazines from what I've seen. (edit: seems like Mbin support was added since I last checked)

One way to overcome this problem that I know of is Lemmy Federate. As I understand it, it tries to subscribe to your magazine from various instances (including big ones) using its own account, so it starts getting federated there.

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

there's third-party websites which list all Lemmy communities and you can browse them there. But those don't support Mbin magazines from what I've seen

@tgxn@lemmy.tgxn.net Is this true? If so, what are the biggest challenges to including Mbin and Piefed in Lemmyverse?

[–] tgxn@lemmy.tgxn.net 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Lemmyverse supports mbin already! there's a little option in the top right menu. (migrated from kbin)

I'm mainly interested in Lemmy communities (given the name) and given I've mostly run out of time for features, they are a bit slower lately 😅

[–] Pamasich@kbin.earth 3 points 3 days ago

Oh, I wasn't aware it got updated to support Mbin. Last time I checked it still only showed Kbin's zero instances (and wasn't it instances rather than magazines?)

Still, it's a shame they're hidden in a menu. Imo ideal would be if all the communities were in the same feed, regardless of which software they run on. It's about discovery after all.

[–] dawnslayer@kbin.earth 2 points 6 days ago

I'll give it a look, thanks!

[–] rimu@piefed.social 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Does Mbin federate downvotes, yet?

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

Are you asking if they show downvotes? If so, yes!

[–] rimu@piefed.social 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

No. It used to be that if someone on a remote server down voted something in Mbin then that vote would not be sent to all the other subscribers on other servers.

[–] dawnslayer@kbin.earth 5 points 1 week ago

Oh, yeah, I haven't a clue. I can test it out.

[–] dawnslayer@kbin.earth 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] rimu@piefed.social 6 points 1 week ago

Ok. So most people won't be aware of that but in my case the answer to your question is "yes I could join but if there is a similar community hosted on a Lemmy / PieFed instance I'd choose that instead".

To me, downvotes are not negative - a downvote on a post is equivalent to upvoting every other post. Lacking downvotes reduces the quality signal that causes good stuff to be visible.