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?
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.
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:
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.
Amazing to me that a nonprofit can do it, but my local police department, state forest fire service, etc etc, cannot and are stuck on twithell and fuckbook.
As far as I can tell, this would subscribe you to a user with the username "fediverse". I've already seen a user and a community both named "cat" on the same instance, so that could be a problem if calckey doesn't differentiate between @fediverse@kbin.social and fediverse@kbin.social.
You follow users the same way you’ve follow someone on Mastodon.
You go to search and add a username in. Mine, for example, would be @emperor.
This then follows you on here and introduces all your posts and comments into your feed. What I do is create a list of all my Fediverse accounts so if anything I say somewhere needs a boost, I can fish it out:
You can actually browse individual profiles from places like Mastodon on Lemmy. They get interpreted as a community where each post is one “toot” from that user.
Though comments and upvotes don’t proliferate back to the original platform, they live on your instance.
@Holyginz, I would think you can do like on kbin, since it seems like the standard. Just guessing. Go to the user page on your instance then follow them.
My English is not the best so maybe there was also something lost in the translation. But what I thought about was that probably all this open source and free internet loving people from Wikipedia has to use twitter as an communication channel for so long and that it is probably pretty cool to see for them that the open source universe is expanding further more.
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