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.

  • GlennMagusHarvey@mander.xyz
    3·
    1 year ago

    (For reference, I have accounts on Lemmy, Mastodon, and Calckey Firefish.)

    I’ve thought about getting a /kbin account. Hesitated since there’s a wider network of Lemmy instances and they interoperate anyway. But /kbin is cool too.

    If I didn’t already have multiple Mastodon accounts I might be more interested in getting a /kbin due to that microblogging feature. It seems like a neat idea, combining the two. I dunno how federation works though.

    I actually don’t mind the term “magazines” that much but it is a little annoying when I have to explain the threadiverse to people and I have to keep saying “communities/magazines”. That said part of the reason I don’t mind “magazines” is that “community” is already a common noun for certain things I often want to refer to while “magazine” is not.

    Regarding not seeing old posts: My trick is to just browse the community/magazine on its home instance, if I specifically am looking for stuff from that community/magazine. Then if I ever need to comment I just throw the fediverse link into my own instance’s search bar.

    (See how I need to say community/magazine? lol, i could use “subreddit” but I don’t want to refer back to Reddit, heh)

    Also it took me some time to figure out the difference between local links and fediverse links. I learned the following:

    • basically all content can be viewed in two ways: through my own instance or on its native instance (the “real” location)
    • only fediverse links can be looked up by things like Mastodon instances
    • if a user from instance A posts to a community on instance B, then that post will show on instance B’s community, but the “real” location of the post is actually on instance A
    • if I’m looking at a post in its native instance, I don’t get the fediverse link (which on Lemmy is a little fediverse icon). so if I see that icon it’s actually hosted somewhere else
    • SamXavia@kbin.socialOP
      2·
      1 year ago

      @GlennMagusHarvey Thank you for amazing comment, Yes Magazines aren’t a to bad of a name for Subs / Communities and as time goes on I get used to it. I do like how I get a button at the top of a magazine if it’s not native to my Instance what does make it a lot easier to get to the original media.

      I’ve heard of Calckey Firefish a few times now, not sure it’s any good or what sort of ‘Alternative’ sort of platform it’s trying to be, or even if it’s trying to be an alternative. I hope you are enjoying the Fediverse as much as me.

      • GlennMagusHarvey@mander.xyz
        1·
        1 year ago

        As I understand it, Firefish/Calckey is a fork of Misskey, and both are microblogging so I presume they’re Twitter-inspired but it has a much richer feature set so I’m not really sure of its “inspiration lineage”. Maybe it’s a clone of something else but I just don’t use social media enough to know.

        Also, I just realized I actually have a Misskey account rather than a Firefish/Calckey account. I’m that clueless lol

        But yeah I’m definitely enjoying the fediverse. It’s proving to be both a useful place to find info and a fun place to just hang out and chat!