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Maybe I'm too dumb for kbin - Why are there so many different types of post/microblog? How does federation work? If someone follows a magazine on another instance do they see all of the posts and micr
  • @kari I'm struggling with the same thing, and posted (microblogged?) about it here.

    AFAIK

    • kbin link, photo, and video submissions are analogous to link submissions on reddit, and to new posts on lemmy.
    • kbin article submissions are analogous to text submissions on reddit (and also new posts on lemmy since it doesn't seem to make a distinction between link and text submissions)
    • kbin post submissions are an anomaly, untitled posts like twitter tweets or mastodon toots that technically go into a magazine (/m/random, unless another is chosen) although they are displayed under the microblogs header rather than threads.
  • Let me see if I have this straight -- I'm getting a bit of a headache.
  • @chris Thanks, that helps. Slowly wrapping my head around this stuff.

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    Let me see if I have this straight -- I'm getting a bit of a headache.

    Let me see if I have this straight -- I'm getting a bit of a headache.

    If you make a new link, article, or photo {on kbin} it will become a thread in a magazine which you must choose. Replies to that thread are comments and go to everyone following that (thread? magazine?)

    If you make a new post it will become a non-threaded {untitled} microblog entry in a magazine which you must choose. Replies to that microblog post will be replies and go to everyone mentioned by username.

    If the latter is true, I wonder why there isn't a hidden "microblog" magazine for microblog entries. Why are they forced to belong to a certain magazine? If the user isn't subbed to any mags what shows up in the "select a magazine" dropdown?

    {Edited to add missing words and this: the interface said "thread created successfully" (or similar) and calls this a thread in the right sidebar. At that point I legit couldn't remember if I made it as a post or article. It appeared under microblog. The profile overview shows it as a post and not a thread. }

    \#fedia

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    What is "OC"?
  • Hovering tooltips would be helpful for this kind of thing. The other day I was staring at the PURGE button next to READ ALL on the notifications listing. I assumed READ ALL meant "mark all read" but PURGE was more ambiguous. Finally I just PURGED to see what would happen.

    Answer: READ ALL ghosts out the posts but they are still clickable. PURGE removes all the posts from the notification list.

  • Welcome to the Vim community!
  • I think it's a vi joke

  • How are you going to avoid using reddit?
  • Not avoiding yet, but I just cut my subscribed subreddits by about half. Should reduce my time there.

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  • OSMAnd. I love the downloadable mapsets and screen configurability

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  • Duckduckgo by default, adding !g bang syntax to use google if DDG isn't helping.

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  • Will you go back to Reddit and other centralized social media platforms, if Reddit step back from the API changes?

    No; I didn't even know about the API issue until after I registered on a lemmy instance.

    My transition from twitter -> mastodon was so smooth and pleasant I started sniffing around lemmy again. I'd looked at it a year or two ago but didn't take the bait at that time.

  • Elon Musk Says Twitter Is Going To Get Rid Of The Block Feature, Enabling Greater Harassment
  • One step away from A Clockwork Orange where users' eyes will be held open so they are forced to see fashy-curious content

  • Something is wrong with the upvote and downvote counter. It is going bizzare and the values changing like crazy. Anyone else noticed?
  • Same, happened to me 2x this morning when I switched to another browser tab. I caught one before posting my comment, but the other comment got posted to the unrelated thread that had suddenly appeared.

  • Reddit experimenting with blocking mobile browsers
  • especially the horrid Reddit app