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Just Curious: How long does it take for a kbin post to reach mastodon? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by readbeanicecream@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social

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Or a thread to lemmy. Basically, how long does "federation" take?

(I am not sure if I am saying that correcly, but you know what I mean.)

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[–] Arotrios@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@neatchee @daredevil I think perhaps someone has to post a link hosted on your instance for it to appear. For instance this works:

https://kbin.social/d/mastodon.social

but smaller instances like this:

https://kbin.social/d/pagan.plus

...don't seem to, generating a 404 because no one has created a link or thread back to a pagan.plus post (although their users post over to kbin often). Possibly posting link (in the url field of Add a Link on Kbin) to an urusai.social hosted post will do the trick.

[–] neatchee@urusai.social 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

@Arotrios @readbeanicecream @daredevil this sounds very plausible. Unexpected, but it would make sense that kbin's /d/ path is showing you the directory of content from your server's local cache and not querying the target server.

Which kinda makes sense, honestly: since that feature is trying to list everything kbin knows about from the target server, populating it for the first time would definitely cause a significant load on that instance

[–] Arotrios@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

@daredevil @neatchee - Looks like the linked post is what did the trick. I posted here to the Fediverse community to let them know about your instance (it's pointed at your pinned intro post).

As such, this link is now working for daredevil:

https://kbin.social/d/urusai.social

And will allow subscriptions.

[–] daredevil@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Fantastic, this has been very enlightening. I appreciate your time and effort.

[–] neatchee@urusai.social 3 points 1 year ago

@Arotrios @readbeanicecream @daredevil and it answers my question: it is not the full server firehose, just the posts already known to the kbin server

[–] neatchee@urusai.social 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

@Arotrios @readbeanicecream @daredevil now I'm really curious how it works when you subscribe to a server. Is it pulling in that server's public and local feeds? Or is it only showing you posts from users on that server that your instance already knows about

[–] daredevil@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'll keep an eye on our instance of urusai.social and let you know in the future

[–] Arotrios@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

~~Only that it knows about to start, but I think that once it gets subscriptions to the domain, it starts pulling more automatically. I could be wrong, however - I'm not sure which activities aside from posting are federated.~~

EDIT: I was wrong - the domain only grabs Threads, so Mastodon posts will likely not show up this way. They may get indexed if they're sent to a kbin magazine using the @magazinename@kbin.social format