wow interesting. Mastadon has a decent app in place too doesn't it? That might be the best usage experience for me actually. Mastadon on the phone, Kbin on a desktop. Especially if it all links up.
Is looking at the username how you can tell where a post is coming from? I was so confused a while ago with posts saying "something something fellow Beehaw users!" and it was marked as (kbin.social) lol.
Yeah, that part is a little confusing. Because this is a link aggregation site, it's currently set up to show the domain of whatever link is in the thread. But if it's just a text post, because it's being brought over here it self-reports that we're looking at kbin.social.
If you have the top bar enabled from settings you can see where you're currently looking at the top right.
Total newb here, how does one collapse comment threads on the web browser version of kbin here? I've tried clicking around and don't see some UI element or anything to indicate how to do such an action.
We don't have it yet. Kbin is really new, and we kind of swamped the dev with our sudden influx. It's on people's wishlists though, so I'm sure we will have it in future!
Just started adding subscriptions to kbin magazines and I think it's starting to sink in that there is actually a decent-sized community growing here with a LOT more potential. The FediVerse being decentralized makes things feel a bit empty at first as it is now, but once you start hooking up to other platforms' content it immediately feels twice as big. The trick over time will be cross-platform development efforts that make things look and feel more seamless.
yeah kbin and lemmy don't seem to interact very well... having two separate hives that don't talk to each other isn't good for the fediverse, it creates unnecessary fragmentation :(
What is a reddit thread if not a root tweet with a bunch of replies (and replies to the replies) formatted in a way that you see the organization of the replies?
Hello mastodon user. I'm seeing this on kbin.social as part of a "lemmy.world" thread. On kbin we have magazines (like reddit's subreddits). This magazine is "[email protected]". Your post is showing up as a comment in this thread. I'm doing a comment reply/response to yours.
It IS a Twitter-like site. It displays posts in more of a Twitter style. That being said - it is also part of the Fediverse, so theoretically you should be able to see all federated communities on any fediverse instance of your choosing.
Personally, I have a kbin.social account and a mastodon.social account. I'm doing this because Mastodon doesn't really present threads from kbin or lemmy in an easily digestable way, so I will use kbin as my reddit replacement, and Mastodon to replace Twitter.
So I'm looking for a magazine that I know is on kbin, that I want to subscribe from here. I've tried typing in the magazine name in the address bar (lemmy.world/c/[email protected]), I've tried searching in the "communities" search, and I'm just not finding it and getting errors. Direct linking works, but I then I can only subscribe if I have an account on kbin. Help?
kbin currently has a bug with the [email protected] syntax. Your link becomes https://kbin.social/c/[email protected], which isn't valid (should be https://kbin.social/m/Utah). It's a little weird because while the c/ part is what we'd expect if it was a Lemmy sub, it still shouldn't be repeating the domain. I'm sure that'll be fixed shortly, though. Maybe I'll go dig into the code myself.
At any rate, the @[email protected] syntax should work in kbin. I'm unclear if it works for Lemmy. Here's a link so you can try it: @Utah
So, I am on lemmy.one and I go to search communities, and paste https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration and nothing comes up. Am I doing something wrong?
hello. can confirm. I'm on kbin.social right now and seeing this thread. I'm not sure federating is entirely up just yet but it's working a lot better/faster than it was these past few days. Definitely seeing an influx of beehaw and lemmy world users and posts :)
I'm kinda shocked they're openly saying "I just don't like [lemmy.world's] vibe" as one of the justifications, as that looks like the slipperiest of slopes.
I don’t think it’ll end well for them, and it’s a disappointing choice. However, choosing to not federate is just as much a part of the system as choosing to federate. If everyone had to run exactly the same setup we everyone else, the whole thing would be pointless.
Ah interesting. I actually see this post over there so it seems replies from kbin are actually federating now. The question is if I will see my own comment.
It basically means that we are seeing content that has been posted or created across the "Fedeverse" for example Lemmy, if i understand correctly (Extremely summarized, there's more to the federation).
Earlier, we only saw content/posts made locally on Kbin; however, it appears that we are federated, which is providing us content from other instances in the Fedeverse. This very post is from Lemmy.world, but i'm replying to you from Kbin.social, if that makes sense.
They are different software with a compatible protocol also used by a handful of other software including Mastodon. There are other kbin instances like fedia.io and there are hundreds of Lemmy instances.
Since the beginning of the Reddit blackout, kbin.social had been running in isolation due to server load. Now it is fully integrated with the rest of us (I'm not on kbin at the moment).
What's the easiest way to see and subscribe to kbin content while logged into lemmy.world? I have to know the name of the magazine I want and put the link in Search?
@CodingAndCoffee So nice to be able to comment on this straight from Mastodon, too. Though it's weird that the existing comments don't show up on Mastodon when I paste the URL to this post in my search box (t)here.
That's what the fediverse is. That's how this whole thing works. And why some of us are on kbin, some mastodon, some lemmy, some beehive. The posts you're seeing now aren't all from people on Kbin anymore. Fucking interesting, right?
edit I should add, I thought this post WAS ON Kbinsocial. Cause that's what I'm on. I didn't even realize this was posted to a lemmy instance.
When I click those links I can’t really interact with those post without logging in, which I can’t because I’m on Lemmy and kbin doesn’t know me. But when I find those posts in the wild I can. My brain overloades a little bit.
It's a bit annoying, but I think (someone correct me if I'm wrong!) you would need to paste the link to the kbin communities you want to join or interact with into your lemmy instance (e.g. lemmy.world, lemmy.ml) in the format of [email protected] (with the exclamation mark) to see that community as the federated cached version available to your instance. You can then subscribe to the community while viewing that way to see it in your feed going forward. This works best on desktop, or desktop view in a mobile browser.
But yeah ideally links in lemmy would link to the ! link if available, and not the /c/ link so that you stay in your logged-in environment.
If a user hard-codes or pastes a kbin URL then it's going to stay a kbin URL.
If a user goes to the effort of linking a community by relative name (which are different formats for kbin and lemmy respectively) then it'll be a relative link that will keep you on your instance.
This is one of the rough edges that the whole community is going to need to sort out.
@Lemmy@anuckols On Mastodon you can just type in the name and press enter and it finds everyone with that instance. Normally though you would type @[email protected]ing in search and you can find who or what your looking for. Works like that on lemmy
@anuckols@CodingAndCoffee Clicking the federation link button from the Lemmy thread brought me to my Mastodon account where I am replying now. Wild stuff lol
it seems to be an amalgamation of reddit and twitter
they have 'magazines' which are like subreddits, but magazines can designate hashtags which appear on the 'microblog' tab of a magazine and seem to pull in posts from other fediverse instances such as Mastodon
I'm still learning my way around but that is how I understand it
Not yet. Ernest is still working on improving the UI, but honestly he probably has such a giant pile on his desk that we can't really tell when what will happen, or if something will be added at all unless he's currently working on it.
@serfraser@youshouldknow What's happening? Are you on an instance and want to see everyone's comments/post on other instances? What client are you using? Are you on the website? Are you on desktop ?
This is great but I am still unable to search for communities in kbin. At least I tried [email protected] and [email protected] a few time the last few minutes but still no result.
I haven't been able to join Kbin magazines by searching in the !magazine@instance format, but when I just paste the URL from Kbin into the search I've been able to add them that way.