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#Kbin update:
- The https://kbin.social server is now federating with the Fediverse. You can follow/interact with kbin.social magazines & users from other Kbin servers, Mastodon & rest of the Fediverse. For example the TIL magazine is at @TodayILearned, the lead dev of Kbin is at @ernest
- There's a new Kbin server at https://readit.buzz which is run by the same people as the Universodon.com Mastodon server. It's open for signups, just click "log in" and then "register".
p.s. If you are browsing a magazine, thread or account from Kbin (or anywhere else on the Fediverse!) and you want to interact with it somewhere else on the Fediverse but you can't find it by searching, here's how to make your server notice it:
1. Go to Kbin in your web browser
2. Copy the web address of what you want to interact with
3. Paste that address into the search box on Mastodon (or any other Fediverse server type)
It will then appear on your own server where you can interact with it.
p.p.s. Several people asking in the thread about how to appear on the microblogging sections of Kbin magazines.
As far as I can tell, just include one of the magazine's listed tags in your posts on Mastodon etc. For example to appear on the Apple magazine's microblogging section include #apple or #iphone or one of the other tags as shown at on the right side of the screen at https://kbin.social/m/apple
Microblogging is a separate tab from Threads, you need a Kbin account to start a new thread.
I gave #Kbin another try, took a less popular instance without Cloudflare, create a magazine with appropriate tags in settings.
When I go and make a post on Mastodon with one of those tags AND even mention the group where magazine resides (just in case), but nothing makes the post appear on Kbin.
You can imagine my disappointment, as I promoted the shit out of Kbin prematurely and how it's suppoed to fetch remote posts - NOPE, doesn't work. 
@feditips Hey, due to recent spam campaigns, untested features, and the lack possibility of quick fixes on the new infrastructure, the federation has been temporarily restricted. The federated instances are currently limited to kbin<->kbin and kbin<->lemmy. I didn't want to add extra work for other admins on platforms where groups are not well-supported. After the planned update at the end of September, groups will also be restored for other platforms, including Mastodon.
@ernest Will past microblog posts be federated automatically or we'll need to post again to appear on Kbin?
@vintprox @vintprox But wait... in essence, Mastodon posts should indeed appear on the microblog in the appropriate magazine (e.g. https://kbin.social/m/fediverse/microblog/newest). The condition is that someone from the kbin instance must be following your account (in the case of tagging). The limitation goes the other way (posts from kbin are not visible in Mastodon groups). Could you please provide links to the posts you're referring to? I will try to verify this today.
Right, so, I have this issue where even if I follow magazine's group from Mastodon, it does not necessarily trigger anything on Kbin to make the Mastodon post appear in Microblog section.
Here is my magazine: https://kbin.melroy.org/m/drbboard/microblog/newest
And here is the post: https://techhub.social/@vintprox/111108832486309659
@ernest While I'm at it, I should probably report that there is some deeper problem with federating my magazine. When I open it through some other Kbin instance, its description gets wrecked: line breaks are stripped away. And for soem reason ownership is shown behind the first person/admin on the respective instance, which does not represent the truth (the owner is me, Jim! XDDDD)
It turns out that Microblog doesn't gather posts that contain extreneous tag somewhere around the beginning. I really miss the docs on this matter. When I include tag "#Kbin", my post doesn't appear in my magazine, but when I remove it, all is fine, post appears immediately.
What's the behavior here? I just checked and it seems that if I include extreaneous tag as the first one, post is ignored. When I move this tag after the featured one, the post appears on Microblog tab.
Oh, and by "extraneous tag" I still maintain the #kbin. When I try any other, it doesn't interfere and show the post as it's intended to. So, it looks like I cannot use #kbin hashtag as the first one specifically.
@pieceofthepie @feditips @ernest
Interesting, so it's another way around: I need to follow Mastodon account from Kbin? I just followed and republished post from Mastodon with appropriate tag, but it doesn't work. It's probably requiring some more time to heat...
https://kbin.melroy.org/m/drbboard/microblog/newest
https://techhub.social/@vintprox/111109253704416998