I have a few new subs I've added to the directory. Also another update in regards to accessing the directory. The devs at lemmy said that the issue with pinned posts on kbin not federating over is a Kbin issue, so I went ahead and submitted a feature request on Kbins codeberg. I have no idea how easy this will be to implement but fingers crossed it can get implemented. In the meantime I'm going to keep linking the pinned comment and then eventually I will redo it so it will show up on other instances.

If you see any cat subs I've missed feel free to make a post and I will add them!

-Newly Added-

cattorneys_at_paw: https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]
Kbin search: @cattorneys_at_paw
Lemmy Search: [email protected]
(Based on the r/legalcatadvice subreddit humorous light RP sub about cats asking for legal advice for generally mundane things like human not giving them all the food they want, original instance lemmy.world)

animalsbeingawesome: https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]
Kbin search: @animalsbeingawesome
Lemmy Search: [email protected]
(Sister site of the subreddit r/AnimalsBeingGeniuses, all about animals doing extraordinary things and being geniuses, original instance lemmy.world)

Nervysquervies: https://kbin.social/m/nervysquervies/newest
Kbin search: @nervysquervies
Lemmy Search: [email protected]
(New magazine created with permission from the subreddit mods. All about animals with neurological conditions being adorable, there is also an educational aspect to it. The original sub was mostly cats but all animals are welcome to be posted and the magazine is the same all animals are welcome but adding it to CatSubs since a lot of cats were added to it. Original Instance Kbin.social)

Link to directory: https://kbin.social/m/catsubs/t/91943/Current-Directory

I have gone ahead and made a Kbin equivalent of the r/nervysquervies sub. This was a very wholesome sub all about animals with neurological conditions being adorable. There is also an educational aspect to it and helping people understand and learn more about these conditions.

If you have a fur baby (Or other animal!) with a neurological condition that you feel would fit come on over! Posting pictures or videos of others is fine as long as you properly attribute the owners (Don't post others pets and act like they are yours)

Rules are the same as the subreddit. It's empty right now but hopefully we can spread the word and get some sweet content of these amazing animals!

https://kbin.social/m/nervysquervies

Kbin search: [email protected]
Lemmy Search: [email protected]

If the lemmy search doesn't work try searching the full kbin url and that should make it pop up

Hello! I'm not the moderator or author on this (Just a fan!) but wanted to help get the word out as it's one of my favorite webcomics and I wanted to make sure it gets enough traction so the author keeps posting in the Fediverse. This is a fantastic fantasy themed webcomic, the author just started posting in the Fediverse in addition to their normal avenues so go and have a look! They just posted the prologue and will be posting the previous chapters in the coming days, then once it's caught back up the updates are on Mondays and Fridays.

https://kbin.social/m/Alderwood
Kbin search: @Alderwood
Lemmy Search: [email protected]

(I think the exclamation mark searching is broken right now but if you search for the full url in lemmy it should come up.)
Also as usual with federation old posts wont show up so you'll probably have to go to the page on kbin.social to see the first post.

I found several that I had somehow missed on Kbin.social as well as a new one that just moved over from reddit! I'll list all the new ones below.

As far as the federation goes I was doing some testing to see if I can get the pinned comments pushed over but it doesn't seem to be working. I opened up a feature request for Lemmy, as I think it's an issue on that side rather than Kbin, to see if pinned comments made before federation starts could be pulled over. There was an issue earlier in the year where it wasn't happening on lemmy to lemmy instances but that was fixed so hopefully kbin-lemmy instances can be fixed as well. I'll give it a bit but if it seems like it may not be happening anytime soon, I'll go ahead and repost the comment with the directory and delete the old comment so that it shows on any new instances. I know the magazine/community should be showing on lemmy.world and lemmy.blahaj.zone but I'm not sure if it shows on others yet. If you are on lemmy and can't find it to subscribe, try pasting the full link to the Kbin magazine in your search instead of just the search term (This goes for this magazine as well as any of the cat magazines/communities in the directory).
From what I can tell the comments are really the only way to have a directory like this, since the magazine info doesn't get updated after federation starts either. I'll keep experimenting to find the best result but for now we're going to stick with comments and then I'll just periodically have to make a new one so it get's pushed to all instances.

I'll also be doing some reorganization to make it look nicer. I'm loosely following the organization used on r/catsubs but also doing it in ways that make sense to me. If anyone has some suggestions on other things to change let me know! I want to eventually get a better icon for the magazine, at the moment it's mostly just a placeholder (It's just a free icon I found online).

Last note, I wont be doing these updates daily, only when I add new links or if it's some major change I just ended up finding a bunch of new additions twice in a row.

New Additions:

catposting: https://kbin.social/m/catposting
Kbin search: @catposting
Lemmy Search: [email protected]
(Shitposting but cat themed, it's mostly memes so be aware if that isn't your thing, original instance is kbin.social)

Kitties: https://kbin.social/m/kitties
Kbin search: @kitties
Lemmy Search: [email protected]
(General cat posting, Original instance is kbin.social)

Cat: https://kbin.social/m/Cat
Kbin search: @Cat
Lemmy Search: [email protected]
(General cat posting, Original instance is kbin.social)

Shoulder Cats: https://kbin.social/m/ShoulderCats
Kbin search: @ShoulderCats
Lemmy Search: [email protected]
(Pictures of cats on shoulders, Original instance is kbin.social)

Cat loaves!: https://kbin.social/m/catloaf
Kbin search: @catloaf
Lemmy Search: [email protected]
(Pictures of cats loafing (sitting with all feets tucked under them), original instance is kbin.social)

Cat floofs!: https://kbin.social/m/floof
Kbin search: @floof
Lemmy Search: [email protected]
(Pictures of floofy cats, Original instance is kbin.social)

piratekitties: https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]
Kbin search: @piratekitties
Lemmy Search: [email protected]
(Pictures of cats that have some sort of difference such as a missing eye. leg. or are blind. This one is an official community from Reddit, the mods on r/piratekitties just made the announcement earlier today, Original instance is lemmy.world)

Welcome to all the new subscribers! I'm glad to see that this is helpful to so many of you!

I've added few new ones to the Directory which I'll put below. Now that we are showing up on lemmy.world I'm realizing that I don't think the pinned comment will move over which could be an issue. I'm going to try commenting on it to see if that will push the whole comment over or not. But in case it doesn't I'll stick a link to the comment in the sidebar and in these updates for those of you on other instances that can't see the pinned comment. A lot of the magazines/communities either don't have a lot of activity or have none and that's probably because of how new they are, so if you have good content to add to them (Especially if it's on your home instance) please do and help these magazines/communities grow!. And as always if you see any that I have missed feel free to post an article and I'll get it added to the directory as soon as I can!

Link to the directory: https://kbin.social/m/catsubs/t/91943/Current-Directory

-Newly added-

cats: https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]
Kbin search: @cats
Lemmy Search: @cats
(General cat posting, original instance is fedia.io)

britishshorthairs: https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]
Kbin search: @britishshorthairs
Lemmy Search: [email protected]
(All about the British shorthair breed, original instance lemmy.world)

Cats & Kittens: https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]
Kbin search: @cats
Lemmy Search: [email protected]
(General cat posting, original instance forum.fail)

I've noticed this when searching for a few differemt Lemmy communities on different instances where it will load for a second and then nothing happens or it will reselect the text box. Normally if Kbin can't find the community it will say "nothing" but there are certain communities that don't even show that, almost like it can't load it. Is this an issue of the instance I'm searching for is having federation issues? Or is it something on Kbin's end?
I've mostly seen it with communities from lemmit.online but I've also seen it on a few others. I know Lemmit was having some issues but they were supposedly fixed (but they still aren't showing up), and I've started seeing that search error happen with a few others instances now too

(Also for clarification I am talking about the main search bar not the magazine search, these are communities that I'm trying to start the federation on Kbin but they aren't showing up on the search)

For those that don't know, the subreddit r/Catsubs was made as a directory for all the many cat subreddits on reddit as well as a way for searching for different cat related subreddits.
I was noticing that more and more cat communities/magazines were popping up and it was getting tricky to find them all so I thought I'd recreate the Catsubs directory on Kbin!

This is unaffiliated with the subreddit, but I did talk to the subreddit mods and got the go ahead as they don't currently have any plans for leaving Reddit.

I already have a pinned comment with all the cat communities/magazines I've found with a kbin.social link as well as the search link for Kbin and Lemmy for those on different instances.

Also anyone is welcome to make a thread if you are either looking for a cat community/magazine or if you find one that I don't already have in the directory.

I'm still working on it but the basics are all good to go so come on over if you are looking for more cat communities/magazines!

https://kbin.social/m/catsubs
Kbin search: @catsubs
Lemmy Search: [email protected]

Is there a way to set up an RSS feed to get notifications from Kbin? The current issue with the notifications is that they are contained completely in the site so you have to actually check the site for the notification. On mobile I'm using an app called Hermit to use the mobile site and it has an option to set RSS feeds for notifications so if there was a way to make an RSS feed of my notifications I could get push notifications on mobile. Any insight would be helpful!