Wikimedia Foundation joins the fediverse ( wikimedia.social )

RheingoldRiver , 11 months ago

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?

doc , 11 months ago

Search for their name and click/tap Follow.
A la this: https://i.imgur.com/eCRkDUH.png

RheingoldRiver , 11 months ago

But, then what ?

doc , 11 months ago

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.

mateomaui , 11 months ago

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:

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 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.