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How does one interact with Mastodon with kbin? (kbin.social)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Posts from Mastodon is transferred to posts (microblog) in seemingly arbitrary magazine on kbin

Pretty sure iirc the microblog sections just looks for tags. The magazine owner specifies a bunch of tags it should search for and the magazine fetches any posts with the specified tags and displays them in the microblog section. So that's why it looks like it's put in arbitrary magazines, because any magazine looking for the same tag can get the same post.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

That is my guess, too. But I don't own a magazine so I didn't know if it's true.

The confirmation is helpful.

But if that's really the case, what will happen when there are several magazines fetch the same tags? Predictably, they just shown on all said magazines, but what about OP's profile? As far as I'm concernd, you cannot create a post in several magazines simultaneously.