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Why can't magazines/communities aggregate content from other instances? (kbin.social)
submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by to c/fediverse@kbin.social
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When I look at https://lemmy.ml/c/startrek vs https://kbin.social/m/startrek I see two entirely different lists of posts. Why? It's the same topic, just on different instances. How can we have communities about topics without having them siloed into their own instance-based communities? Is this just related to that 0.18 issue with Lemmy/kbin not talking nicely, or is this how the Fediverse is?

Is it (at least theoretically) possible for me to post an article on https://kbin.social/m/startrek and have it automatically show up on https://lemmy.ml/c/startrek, or are they always going to be two separate communities?

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[–] 4 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Except on the fediverse all the old content would still be accessible, and your new site would be connected to the existing network.

Most users would just have to sub to a new community, and thats that. Only users on the instance that went down would have to make entirely new accounts.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    Wait, how? I thought the content stayed with the old instance?

    If people migrate to !startrek@startrek.website, and use it for 10 years, then they go bad, I can start a new instance and pull in all 10 years of content from the other instance?

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