Guild Wars 2 @lemmy.wtf Necropola❌ @lemmy.world 1y ago

Which GW2 community is going to be the ONE?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/169206

Wouldn't it be better to merge than to compete?

Edit: Looks like the community on lemmy.ml is pretty much dead.

Guild Wars 2 @kbin.social Necropola❌ @lemmy.world 1y ago

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I created [email protected] because [email protected] does not have en active moderator and lemmy.ml itself is having a tough time dealing with the influx of new users, making the site very sluggish. It's getting better now, but the point of Lemmy (the Fediverse) is to spread out among multiple servers.

In the case of [email protected], which is different from Lemmy, I didn't realize it existed because a bug disabled federation between kbin and Lemmy. Were that to happen again, everyone on Lemmy would be cut off from [email protected].

kbin: This is a very early beta version, and a lot of features are currently broken or in active development, such as federation. Source...

[email protected] does have 17 more subscribers, but [email protected] have twice the amount of comments ;)

Edit: Disclaimer: I am the maintainer (administrator) of lemmy.wtf
- Yeah, syncing (federation) between lemmy instances and kbin.social has only just started to work (again). I made this list to document which "lemmy reachable" GW2 communities I could find and cross-posted it to all 3 communities.
  
  I hope that at least one will survive, since I'm not intending to ever go back to reddit.
  
  [email protected] is pretty dead, but I don't see why [email protected] and [email protected] couldn't co-exist. They are even on two different platforms.
  
  Well, I'm currently subscribed to all 3 and since federation now works with kbin.social I can access their GW2 community just like it were on a native lemmy instance. Which is pretty cool.
  
  It is, until federation breaks again (hopefully not) :P
  
  I'm subscribed to the ml as well as kbin and have accounts in both but I can't seem to view posts from the ml there alongside the kbin ones. I can see that the ml is linked and I can subscribe to it, but how do I get the kbin to show a merger of both?
  
  Also shouldn't we link the wtf instance too in the kbin?
  
  Usually you don't need accounts on other instances to interact with their communities, e. g. my account is on lemmy.world, but I'm subscribed to 3 GW2 communities on 3 different instances one of which even being a different platform (kbin and not lemmy).
  
  These communities now appear as if they were on my instance, but are in fact local copies which are synchronized/federated using the ActivityPub protocol.
  
  Note that these communities are not merged, i .e. they still appear as separate communities, but there is a (pretty popular) feature request for this on GitHub.
  
  Support for grouping communities / multi-communities #818
  
  I don't know whether federation from lemmy to kbin is currently supported. I'm only using the other direction.
  
  Thanks for the answer and the link ! That makes sense, then I'll wait and see if there is some traction/progress on the GitHub post!
  
  I thought that going to https://www.lemmy.world/c/[email protected][email protected] would work but that's the whole point of the request
- [email protected] is the one I chose after seeing the one on lemmy.ml being dead.
  
  I think it would be better to stay here, as you said, lemmy.ml has some problems due to the huge influx of players, and the point of lemmy is to spread out, so let's do that.
  
  I didn’t realize it existed because a bug disabled federation between kbin and Lemmy
  
  Didn't they temporarily disabled it because we rexxitors were hugging them to death?
  
  That’s possible, I just read something else.

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