Someone wrote “welcome home” as a reply and it has touched me more than I would admit
Can you explain what you mean by that?
My English is not the best so maybe there was also something lost in the translation. But what I thought about was that probably all this open source and free internet loving people from Wikipedia has to use twitter as an communication channel for so long and that it is probably pretty cool to see for them that the open source universe is expanding further more.
Okay so this is the first time I’m actually interested in following a Mastadon account via kbin. Um…this is what microblog is for right? Is there a place I can see posts from just my followers?
Search for their name and click/tap Follow.
A la this: https://i.imgur.com/eCRkDUH.pngBut, then what ?
That’s the catch, isn’t it? Like subscribed magazines it’s not easy nor obvious to find the people you’ve followed. I think the only thing following does is adds them to your “following” list, which you can only find in your profile.
The mastodon-type posts/microblogs are less well developed at this point. It’s a recent feature added to the software before the reddit blow up, if I remember right
Things are moving fast for kbin and lemmy, but right now it feels like nothing is moving fast enough. It’s tough being patient.
My understanding is that whenever someone you follow on mastodon makes a post, in kbin it shows up under Microblogs in the “random” magazine… I think… which is here:
https://kbin.social/m/random/microblog
but maybe you can narrow that down by using the “subscribed” filter? Maybe? (edit: yes, appears that’s how to do it, select the subscribed filter and then the microblogs tag for https://kbin.social/sub/microblog to see just who you’re following.)
I think things only show up in other magazine microblogs if someone on kbin specifically posts one to that magazine.
Still working things out myself. But it’s probably better to have a separate mastodon account and appropriate app to keep up with those posts and ignore the Microblogs tab because for some reason all comments are always expanded. Again, I think.
edit: correction already, it looks like everyone posting on Mastodon shows up in the random microblog, whether you follow them or not.
Is there any mention of this from them directly? The domain isn’t verified on the mastodon profile, which is unfortunate.
Getting bigger by the hour
Amazing to me that a nonprofit can do it, but my local police department, state forest fire service, etc etc, cannot and are stuck on twithell and fuckbook.
The wikimedia fundation is full of money, your forest office is not.
Sure, but using mastodon isn’t exactly a bank breaker (and that’s if you bother hosting your own).
But do police departments etc really even need to be on social media?
It’s a quick way to send important information, I would hazard a yes.
Several weeks ago the only way I knew about a forest fire down the street was because of twitter.
How do I follow/subscribe to them on lemmy?
Lemmy currently doesn’t allow you to follow individuals. As kbin does, it is probably a feature we will see in the future.
For now you’d need a Mastodon, kbin or Calckey account (I recommend the last one).
You can actually browse individual profiles from places like Mastodon on Lemmy. They get interpreted as a community where each post is one “toot” from that user.
Though comments and upvotes don’t proliferate back to the original platform, they live on your instance.
How do I see lemmy from calckey ?
Try searching for the community like you do a person. @ name @ instance
Search for a community just like you would elsewhere.
This place would be
@fediverse@kbin.social, so you’d search that to find this place on the fediverse. Lemmy communities use the same format.As far as I can tell, this would subscribe you to a user with the username “fediverse”. I’ve already seen a user and a community both named “cat” on the same instance, so that could be a problem if calckey doesn’t differentiate between
@fediverse@kbin.socialandfediverse@kbin.social.That is a known bug at the moment. I believe there is a fix in review right now but Codeberg seems to be down.
You follow users the same way you’ve follow someone on Mastodon.
You go to search and add a username in. Mine, for example, would be @emperor@feddit.uk.
This then follows you on here and introduces all your posts and comments into your feed. What I do is create a list of all my Fediverse accounts so if anything I say somewhere needs a boost, I can fish it out:
@Holyginz, I would think you can do like on kbin, since it seems like the standard. Just guessing. Go to the user page on your instance then follow them.
To get to the user page go to:
https://yourInstance.social/u/@username@aDifferentInstance.social
For you go to https://lemmy.world/u/@wikimediafoundation@wikimedia.social
Lemmy doesn’t have the functionality like Kbin does. It’s one reason why Kbin exists.
Awesome to see.
