I know there's more than one Manchester community set up on the threadiverse (as I've heard it called) already but I've yet to see a single post on either of them, yet.
I'm sure this might befall the same fate but it feels the like best home for a Manchester community is in a Manchester instance.
So feel free to post your Manchester news, thoughts, questions and let's build something!
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losttourist@social.chatty.monster · 0 pts · 3y
@kev Trying to work out how to subscribe to that from kbin.social. Putting that link into the kbin search box returns no results.
kev@mcr.town · 0 pts · 3y
I've had the same problem in the reverse direction.
My understanding is that kbin and Lemmy aren't necessarily working perfectly together at the moment. Although I heard a lot of that was to do with kbin using Cloudflare protection, which I think they've turned off now.
Things here certainly aren't as mature as Mastodon yet but hopefully more users will drive more development.
I'll have a look into this stuff better once I'm on my laptop instead of my phone!
losttourist@social.chatty.monster · 0 pts · 3y
@kev Yep no problem, I'm definitely not demanding "GIMME A SOLUTION NOW!!" but it's somewhat annoying that the federation in the threadiverse doesn't seem to work as well as it should.
kev@mcr.town · 0 pts · 3y
I completely agree.
Also lemmy's UI is shocking, especially on mobile. Although I've spent much of my career working on that sort of stuff so I wonder if I'm over-sensitive to it. Which suggests maybe I should have a look and see if I can offer some improvements. I think a few small fixes would go a long way.
losttourist@social.chatty.monster · 0 pts · 3y
@kev Haha I'm the complete opposite. My career has been completely on back-end systems. I can design you an elegant API with my eyes closed, but frequently I see people complaining about UI/UX issues and I genuinely never clocked that there was a problem until someone pointed it out.
kev@mcr.town · 0 pts · 3y
Oh wow! I only just realised you were talking from your Mastodon account and I'm on a a thread on Lemmy. I'm completely amazed at how well that works!
losttourist@social.chatty.monster · 0 pts · 3y
@kev I just figured out the subscription, too.
I needed to search for @manchester in the kbin search tool. And now I'm subscribed (from my kbin account).
Sausage@kbin.social · 1 pts · 3y
I had to search manchester@mcr.town to find it from kbin.social, although it's not showing any content.
Clicking on the @manchester link in your comment gave me a 404