My First 24hrs on Kbin ( kbin.social )

GlennMagusHarvey , 11 months 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 OP , 11 months 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 , 11 months 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!

SamXavia OP , 11 months ago

@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.