Maybe it’s different on Lemmy, but signing up to the fediverse via kbin couldn’t have been easier. Pretty much the same as signing up for any other web site and the federated servers just show up automatically in the search. Once you’re subscribed local and federated communities look pretty much identical.
That’s amazing that they would consider auto-generated responses to be appropriate in something which is supposed to be reference documentation. We are a good way from that type of querying and explanation being reliable.