(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
@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.
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!
@GlennMagusHarvey Thank you, Yeah I luckily get Microblogging through Kbin. So I think I will keep using Kbin especially with the future developments they hope to add in.
Some updates. Apparently, making a thread in kbin will make a post on Mastodon, but not immediately. Here is the main page of my account on Mastodon (mastodon.social): https://mastodon.social/@[email protected]
Under Posts tab, you will see this particular thread(https://mastodon.social/@[email protected]/110717469552820707) and its replies. In contrast to my initial thought, posts on kbin seems to be ignored by Mastodon since I did not see my posts on my main page there.
On the other hand, Posts from Mastodon is transferred to posts (microblog) in seemingly arbitrary magazine on kbin, and again, not immediately.
If you dig a bit in that account, you'll see her posts are posted in different magazines, which is weird since there is no magazine equivalent in Mastodon. I'm guessing it's on kbin's side that does this transformation, probably with the help of hashtag?
Also, posts that's too old will not be transferred. I did not find this post on kbin: https://mastodon.social/@jensorensen/110204027397694156 . Based on the time when it's posted, it's somewhere between April 16 and April 23.
Can you open any of those mastodon links in mastodon yourself? They all open in kbin for me (as do any other mastodon, at least mastodon.social, links), wonder if that's just me or other people as well.
Link to my profile and thread redirect to the one on kbin. Probably because they both originated from here. But the post from Mastodon does direct to the mastodon.social.
The only way to see this thread and my profile on Mastodon is go to an Mastodon instance, search my name CarrieForle, and see it there.
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.
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.
@Seraph According to https://status.lemm.ee the federation is not receiving data on real time from any kbin or mbin instance. I am following kbinmeta there and the most recent post is from three days ago. Fedia and kbin.run (both mbin) looks like two weeks ago is the earliest.
Edit: Looks like ot took about 21 hours for a kbin post to hit lemm.ee. No comments
..just post. So a 21 one hour delay so far.
Just on the main thread. I have media set to show on kbin so it's more like a reddit experience and I don't have to open images like you. Unfortunately that means video files load and autoplay. It would be better if video media was loaded as a thumbnail if they cant put a script on them to prevent it.
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