Vote if you like, but the primary reason I’m posting this is because this community has been linked as a reddit alternative in the post.
Welcome gamers! You do not need an account on kbin.social to post here. Pick any Kbin or Lemmy server (lemmygrad and lemmy.ml are not recommended), make an account, and type @guildwars2@kbin.social in the search bar to get here.
Consider subscribing to /c/guildwars2@lemmy.wtf as well if you’re able. There’s been some odd bugs getting their posts, hopefully that’s ironed out. These projects are still somewhat early in development, but have a promising future!
Also: consider searching #GuildWars2 to see even more discussion from the wider network. If you have any questions about federated social media, please ask them below :D
Nice of them to link here, it’s still a small community but that’s not always a bad thing, and neither is moving away from reddit as much as possible since things there are just going to get worse there. It’s still early tech but it works well most of the time and has really great potential, especially now that it gained popularity and additional developers/funding due to the reddit boost.
As for @guildwars2, I don’t think we’re able to connect to them at all for some reason. I can’t find them in the browser to subscribe to them, and their kbin page (https://kbin.social/m/guildwars2@lemmy.wtf) is 404-ing meaning it was never even synced (nobody ever subscribed to it).
When I saw, that the gw2 reddit didn’t stick with their blackout, i created an account with kbin.social
I was also able to subscribe to https://kbin.social/m/GuildWars2
Wow. I am feeling a bit more than disappointed by this move.
I mean, I guess all well and good for everyone that just wants to go back there, but frankly for me? this makes me want to never do it now, even when I might have maaaybe considered it before had they stuck to what they said they would do.
I made some nice friends there and will miss them, but I think the environment is frankly just not worth it anymore.
As for @guildwars2, I don’t think we’re able to connect to them at all for some reason. I can’t find them in the browser to subscribe to them, and their kbin page (https://kbin.social/m/guildwars2@lemmy.wtf) is 404-ing meaning it was never even synced (nobody ever subscribed to it).
It seems that federation between Lemmy and Kbin is broken again. For some reason, it is still possible to connect to communities that was connected before federation broke, but not newer communities:
Works
https://kbin.social/m/selfhosted@lemmy.world
Doesn’t work
https://kbin.social/m/xcode@lemmy.world
It is a bit different though, I can search for xcode@lemmy.world and actually find it: https://i.imgur.com/Pf7k3jO.png
Now that I’ve actually searched for it once the page you linked should actually start working too instead of throwing a 404.
This never happens with guildwars2@lemmy.wtf, search always returned nothing. It really looks like something specific between lemmy.wtf and kbin.social.
You are right. This confirms that something must be setup wrong on lemmy.wtf. Before I kept thinking that it might be because I am using a Cloudflare tunnel for lemmy.wtf…
edit: Does kbin.social keep timing out for anyone else right now?
May this still be caused by the Cloudflare Challenge as pointed out in the following lemmy issue on GitHub or has this been solved already?
Just saw the post over at reddit. Decided to just move here now cause of all the shit happening over at Reddit.
Its really nice to see this community have an alternative. It was really jarring to watch all this nonsense unfold and see users confused as to why they were locked out of content.
This is a big win for the fediverse. Really awesome that r/guildwars2 is suggesting alternatives to reddit.
thanks for setting this up. just created account here after seeing the r/ post
I hope kbin or lemmy take off
if T_D can create a reddit clone so can we
f reddit
The beauty of federated social media is that it doesn’t matter which one “wins”. Once bugs are sorted out, Kbin can see Lemmy’s content and Lemmy can see Kbin’s.
Everything here is connected, so it ultimately won’t matter which platform or server you choose. Obviously there are levers for admins to defederate (or, refuse to communicate with) from servers who host illegal content or enable spammers. This is generally a last resort though; most admins believe strongly in keeping everything connected.