/kbin

So this has.me confused for some time now:

On kbin, I can follow other Fediverse users and see their Mastodon posts and all, but the accounts I followed do not appear on my Microblog feed. What's up with that? How am I supposed to interact with the followed accounts? I love that kbin wants to embrace everything Activitypub has to offer, but I didn't quite get behind this one.

TIL that you can view kbin posts via RSS by subscribing to https://kbin.social/rss in your preferred rss reader.

#kbin #rss #TIL

I've had a number of items I've wanted to save for future reference. I can't seem to find an option on the Furefox mobile site that allows me to do that.

Sure I can open in browser and bookmark, but I'd rather they all be under my account here.

Thanks in advance.

I'm curious about the demographic makeup of Kbin. As we are still in it's infancy I feel that most lean towards a certain way, so I made this survey just now to find out. I encourage you to join in, and you can skip any and every question if you so choose. You can view the results at the bottom of the page.

So i've been hoping onto the Random Magazines I find the look of on Kbin but a lot of them seem to be empty and made over a month ago, Why is this?

#kbin

When I first joined Kbin I didn't think nothing of it, I had already been enjoying and using Lemmy as well as Mastodon and other parts of the Fediverse, So I knew what I was roughly getting into but didn't release how much Kbin had to offer.

So here coming up to hour 24 of my experience so far I hope to keep on using this platform into the future. First of all Kbin is a bit more complex than just another Reddit clone as it brings both Reddit's 'Alternative' Lemmy as well as Twitters 'Alternative' Mastodon together in one place.

If you want to do a Mastodon / Twitter like post use the Microblogging feature but if you want to do a Lemmy / Reddit like post use the Threads Tab. This is one thing I was confused about and guessed wrong the first time I used the site.

What about Magazines, Well I'm not a huge fan of the name Magazines and much prefer the Lemmy name for them Communities, These are like Subreddits in Reddit. After using these for a while I started trying to find some of the Lemmy communities I enjoyed on there, Sadly if someone hasn't tried finding it before it's hard to find and once you do it doesn't have any previous posts making it have no content on it to being with.

What about the People Tab? Well the people section is great, if you like seeing what someone talks about you can check out there profile and follow them allowing you to keep up with what they get up too.

There's also some other cool features that really sealed the deal for me such as the Statistics Tab in Settings allowing you to look at how many Posts, Comments and Votes you've had across your profile, Also if your an Ex-Reddit user don't worry there's Reputation or as you knew it as, Karma allowing each person to have a usefulness score on the platform.

For my 24 hrs on a new platform, I'm glad i've learned so much and hope to keep using the platform into the future, I'm glad I will be able to have friends message through other Fediverse Instances like Mastodon or Lemmy allowing them to have there preferred platform it makes me feel as if the Fediverse is what the Internet was always meant to be.

I would love to hear about your experiences across the Fediverse.

not right, not left - hide side bar
yeah how about that?
especially given how this place wants to stick it to reddit.

#kbin

As current state, even within Fediverse, browsing contents from other Fediverse like Mastodon still does not feel quite the same. Of course, It's a different social media platform so it's expected that, you will need 1 Reddit account and 1 Twitter account. But in Fediverse, do we need to do the same?

My proposal for per user content filtering by language. Please comment!

On the kbin.pub. It said:

It can communicate with many other ActivityPub services, including Mastodon, Lemmy, Pleroma, Peertube.

I thought Mastodon (and maybe other federative platforms) are very different from kbin, in terms of the intended uses and functionalities. How do I interact with it?

When I make a thread on /m/kbin, what does it do on Mastodon?

Does anyone know here to change my interface language? Cant find it =/

#kbin

TL;DR: I made a styled version of Reddit for Kbin instances for people participating in the reddit migration. Inspired mostly by Old Reddit, but it actually has a dark mode!

It would be useful to be able to make a local copy of a “thread” from another node without participating in that other other thread. Think of it as a git branch.

Rationale:

1. Resilience to bugs & failures. When the other node is up and down with sketchy reliability, that seems to impact external users from participating in a thread. e.g. I get “error 500” in some cases when trying to read lemmyWorld threads. A reliable node should not impose a bad UX in situations where there is a dependency on an unreliable node.

2. I am prejudiced against some threadiverse nodes, as I’m sure many people are. E.g. I want no participation with lemmy.ml because I do not want to support their oppressive management style. That means I’m only interested in some minimal consumption of content from lemmy.ml, not production of content. So if an interesting thread emerges on lemmy.ml, there’s some benefit to being able to create a local branch where local replies are not copied back to the parent.

This feature could perhaps be called mirroring, ophaning, or branching.

It would be useful if on a case-by-case basis the user who starts a new branch can specify whether or not parent comments are also copied locally and somehow indicated as read-only.

If anyone here is working on a mobile KBin app, how are you managing microblogging?

Now that Lemmy was hacked pretty badly, I started thinking how much kbin is tested for possible vulnerabilities?

What’s your stance on the idea of volunteering white hats testing the app in bug bounty style and reporting found vulnerabilities before some bad actor does? @ernest

I think there’s plenty of professionals here who would do this pro-bono.

yo idk if this is the right place to put this, so sorry if it's not. Iv been really trying to figure this place out and honestly it feels like they made things overly complicated. I understand the magazines and the federated stuff I guess, maybe. But what the hell is the difference between posts and threads. Also I have noticed that sometimes I go into a magazine that says it has posts and threads and there is nothing there. Just need a little help. I don't want to go back to reddit.

That includes images, and both on mobile and PC.

Hey all, /m/SoloBoardGaming just hit 50+ users. Come join us if board games, especially of the solo variety, is of any interest to you. We also have a discord too with 1500+ people, so feel free to help us build up the kbin side of things!

#kbin

Well that was traumatic, I kept subconsciously opening kbin only to be greatest with a "Planned technical works are in progress" message. Disaster.

Well controversially I opened the official Reddit app to see if anyone was talking about it there - that was a mistake, after meer seconds I realised it really is a horrible as everybody says... Closed Reddit.

Checked kbin again -- noo still not back up.

Breath. No I'm English, go make a cup of tea. Right we can get through this.
Mastodon, that works right - ahhh it's not quite kbin, but this is is cool too. Other people are talking about the #kbin maintenance here too.

How did you all cope?

And any other identifying information in image metadata? I would hope that it does so on image upload, but I'm not sure.

A few days ago when I was using /sub I only saw the magazines that I subscribed to. This seems like the intended behavior. But now I see threads from all kinds of magazines plus the ones subscribed under /sub. How can I hide the magazines I am not subscribed to from the subscribed threads view?

Is this a bug? Am I doing something wrong?

At first I believed it was because I followed some people and they used the boost feature or something. But this is not the case.

In my subscription feed the top threads are from [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], kbinMeta, [email protected], [email protected] [...]

[email protected] and kbinMeta are the only two of these that I have subscribed.

Am I the only one who is annoyed by kbin PWA auto rotate? It always auto rotate even when I turn off auto rotate on my phone. This make it unusable when trying to use it when lying down. It always switched to landscape mode when I try to use it on my bed and it drives me crazy.