This is something that could go in the FAQ. If the answer is to post to a community on another instance, I never figured out how to do that.

If the answer is to create a magazine, what is the process?

Thanks.

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    8 months ago

    To get to another instance there is the “Magazines” link at the top of the page, or just go directly to the one you want such as https://fedia.io/m/anarchychess@sopuli.xyz

    To create a new one is under that ‘+’ icon at the top of the page. Looks easy but I haven’t tried it yet.

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      8 months ago

      You can also hit search and type it in in the format @imaginaryfairies@lemmings.world

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        Also, someone has to subscribe to the community, or else Fedia won’t load data from another instance.

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          Oh, so I can get an existing community on another server to show up here by subscribing? That sounds ideal as long as the other server has decent uptime.

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        8 months ago

        Searching macos or @macos doesn’t find that community on any instance unless I use the magazine search, which is under the hamburger menu.

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          I think if you’re searching you need to put the domain in too.

          Magazine search is a bit different but will only show the communities already known to the server, the global search will find remote ones too.

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        8 months ago

        That appears to be a bug. I’ve seen similar problems before but never on an active kbin community. Maybe @melroy@kbin.melroy.org has some idea?

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          Searching on the handler should indeed find & create the user if not present:, eg. https://fedia.io/search?q=%40Gaeilge%40kbin.social However, fedia.io still seems to return “Empty”. I tried to do the same on my instance and that worked.

          I’m not sure what goes wrong, assuming kbin.social didn’t block fedia, then I suspect some kind of issue at fedia.io. I believe we need to debug this issue on the server-side. Hopefully @jerry@fedia.io can have a look at his logs when trying to execute the search query above and maybe find the root-cause that way.

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            8 months ago

            it is working for me as well. I’ll check to see if there was anything in the error logs.

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              ok - just looked through logs and I am not seeing anything that looks related to this issue. There are a good number of error 500’s coming from kbin.social, but none appear to be around the time of these posts, nor associated with the referenced magazine.