Sort of manual but try this as a kbin.social user:

https://kbin.social/m/{lemmy community} <-- but without the '!'
e.g. https://kbin.social/m/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

Remember to remove the '!' :)

I think kbin does @ instead of ! - sorry about that!

Edit: I fixed them to be links instead, hopefully that’ll help.

Same here.

There's an issue with link formatting right now.

You can try removing the ! in the link you're getting a 404 on (it should be /m/community not /m/!community) or using search and searching for the community name using a leading @ instead of !

This was annoying me so I just threw together a firefox/chrome extension to automatically change those. This should probably just be addressed in the kbin source code but that's gonna take more time lol

edit: Published as a GreaseMonkey script too https://greasyfork.org/...

They're formatted for Lemmy, not kbin. Just remove the exclamation point once you get the 404.

I believe you just need to enter those strings into the magazine search and it should allow you to subscribe from here.

Those links redirect to the communities in those instances. You can 100% participate and sub to them from your Kbin account, or even your Mastodon account because all Fediverse apps use ActivityPub as its base. Just look for the community from the search section of your Fediverse instance, and sub to it there, and then you can interact with it from your current account. So for example, showerthoughts hosted on lemmy.world can be accessed on kbin via https://kbin.social/m/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

Not exactly. Think of other instances as just other forums that all connect to each other (which is what federation is). Lemmy is essentially just different forum software, but it still federates with kbin. If you want to find the subs/magazines/communities/whatever-we're-calling-them mentioned above in kbin, go to the Magazines tab at the top and search for their names, or just change the URL to kbin.social/m/<community-name-without-the-!>, such as https://kbin.social/... for mildlyinfuriating. As long as the subs are federated, you can subscribe and interact with them from kbin even if they exist on a lemmy instance (and vice versa).

You shouldn’t need an extra account for Lemmy because kbin and lemmy are federating now, as does Mastodon, so they should all play together. Hopefully someone who knows a little bit more about how to call up a Lemmy community in kbin can help — I know in Lemmy, if the community isn’t already known by the instance, you can make it show up by putting the full URL in the search box within your instance (so like if I, through my lemmy.world account, wanted to join a kbin magazine that no one else has joined on my instance, in the search box I can make the instance find it by putting in https://kbin.social/m/((magazine name)) in the search and it’ll come up).

Hopefully someone at kbin can verify the best way to discover Lemmy communities over there so everyone can keep playing together.

You're being linked directly to the community on its own instance. In this case you want to view it from this instance, and there are some issues with automatic link formatting right now. If you want to go to the community (magazine) from here, you can put /m/communityName in the url i.e. kbin.social/m/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

I’m also trying to work this out…

Still getting a 404 for those