How does this work on kbin at the moment?

My understanding is that, at least on Lemmy, you should be able to search for a full community name, wait a while, and have it show up and start federating. I’ve been searching for two communities (in the format name@instance.tld) on kbin since yesterday and it still shows no matches.

Both are small (<20 subscribers) and currently inactive (no new posts in a week). Do I need to wait until there is new content in them?

  • TooL@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Have you guys also seen communities not federate fully? Like if you browse https://lemmy.world/c/tampabaylightning from within kbin, you see 2 posts. But from an instance like lemmy.ca, you’ll see the entirety of 6 posts.

    Obviously, this community is pretty well dead but it’s interesting to me that it appears to be federating, but is still missing part of the content.

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      1 year ago

      The community on kbin (i.e the federated version) was created 3 days ago, I don’t think posts older than that are ever going to be visible on kbin.

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        1 year ago

        They will be if someone who can see those posts boosts them.

        That’s what boosting does. It republishes posts so that newer users can see them, too.