I'm not exactly clear how to bridge this concern at this time. I have raised concern to the mod team, and we are still discussing how things are going to eventually be deployed in terms of features here on kbin.social.
What I will say is when I go to browse All, I get to look at communities in the Lemmy sphere that I'm not subscribed to. And when I click on the link to the community hosted on a Lemmy instance, I can see previous post history from other users without being subscribed to that community. I can't tell why that's not happening in the reverse for Lemmy users who are coming to our magazine.
Edit to add: I think this means much more of a concern for future instances that will eventually be created that federate here, as opposed to current members of instances who have yet to subscribe to our magazine. So that gives me a little bit of hope since the creation of instances will probably be quite slow at first in the Fediverse.
Due to the way hyperlinking works on kbin, if I type <at>politics<at>kbin.social into any text box, it gets printed as @politics and hyperlinked to this magazine in specific. If I type <at>politics<at>lemmy.world it gets printed as @politics.
I don't know how to get around this, but I'm open to more suggestions.
Hi @rdeets! Thanks for submitting. We just recently added rules in our sidebar around submission titles, but it was just drawn to my attention that federated users cannot access the sidebar. Please refer to the 2nd pinned thread in our magazine for those community rules/guidelines. Thank you!
Thanks for your reply. I see that you're on a different instance than our magazine is hosted on. OP however is on our instance and should be able to see the sidebar.
It's useful to know that other federated users aren't seeing the sidebar, so I greatly appreciate you bringing this up. I will add the rules to a pinned thread for our magazine.
Hi @Madison_rogue! Thanks for submitting. We just recently added rules in our sidebar around submission titles that I encourage you to read. Thank you!
Thanks for adding a label. We are encouraging people to use them because it was a stated goal when the magazine was solicited for input on community guidelines and rules, but we won't be like, coming in behind anyone to fact check whether the correct label was applied.
However, you may find this short glossary helpful:
Glossary of terms: Editorials have author bylines that denote a collection of people within a
news organization, such as candidate endorsements from a newspaper’s staff. Opinions have
author bylines from a single (maybe two) writer(s). Analysis is when an author starts with
factually verified current events and reports then explains deeper significance or motivation,
predicts future outcomes, or makes a policy recommendation based on the starting data.
News: If Trump Were Innocent, He'd 'Walk Over Fire' for Speedy Trial: Swalwell
Also acceptable:
[News] If Trump Were Innocent, He'd 'Walk Over Fire' for Speedy Trial: Swalwell
We want to avoid all caps in titles, even if it's the original title for the source, which is almost always an indicator of low reporting reliability, or that the content is so biased that reliability is hard to gauge.
If it is helpful, here is a short glossary of possible labels.
Editorials have author bylines that denote a collection of people within a news organization, such as candidate endorsements from a newspaper’s staff. Opinions have author bylines from a single (maybe two) writer(s). Analysis is when an author starts with factually verified current events and reports then explains deeper significance or motivation, predicts future outcomes, or makes a policy recommendation based on the starting data.
I'm glad you asked this question, especially as a federated user. It draws attention for me that not all of the instances may have coding for badges, so even though I had hoped we could one day employ badges here on kbin.social, I'm realizing that we can't make that a submission rule if federated users don't even have that option.
Also, it will depend on how you're accessing the magazine (which is what all kbin instances call communities), as to whether the sidebar is viewable. I can only think of describing how to access the sidebar if you're another kbin.social user accessing from mobile.
These are realistic barriers to future plans I had wanted to roll out, so thanks for asking this question and shedding light on it for me.
In the past 2 weeks, I could have sworn I've seen the subscriber number creep up at least by 1000, but I was too busy at the time to start tracking any numbers. From the moderation side - and you can attest to this, Drusas - it has seemed that scrolling past the comments numbers, we aren't looking at <10 comments in any threads, but are looking at >40 comments for a good proportion of threads.
That kind of ballooning over just 2 weeks is exciting to see, but I also wanted to track the numbers to check whether it was my imagination or not that our activity has jumped considerably.
Thanks for asking @ptz. On kbin.social, there is an option in the link submissions form to add badges (similar to flair from reddit) or tags (hashtags to broadcast to the microblogging feature of the Fediverse). As of right now, the badges feature isn't working properly - you can type in the name of a badge (I think it's supposed to be a drop down menu, but is currently a text field) but it doesn't show up in the submission anywhere.
Our users were asked 2 weeks ago what rules they want in this space for moderation and multiple users expressed a desire to see labelling of some sort between news, opinion/editorialized, and analysis content. This is a unique community rule to the politics magazine on kbin.social based on solicited member comments.
We ask that submissions include a label in the title like "News: [Article title as it appears on external site]"
