Search is currently wonky. You can wait a few day for it to be fixed, or you can go to https://karab.in/magazines and use the search bar there. Anything without and @ is hosted in your own instance, and the ones with the @ sign will have the instance they're from after the middle @. For example, this thread should show as @ fediverse @ kbin.social, because you're actually replying to a post on kbin.social :)
Kbin and other instances are pretty much overwhelmed with the rapid rise in users. Kbin is still in beta, mobile app in development but @ernest is doing an amazing job here at kbin.social. Give the whole space a little time and things will improve.
I found myself with the same issues, just use it for a bit, lurk in magazines and you'll get the gist.
you don't need to sign up to an instance in order to subscribe to communities. in the "magazines" search type @lemmy.ml for example and it'll show you communities from over there. And you can use your kbin.social account to interact with post from other instances through this sitel.
Really glad to see he's got it working again. I happened across two lemmy communities last night that were both fairly active, but nothing was coming up for either one no matter how I typed it.
I actually tried to get my first name but it was already taken on kbin when I joined lol. I ended up using my twitter handle instead (without any numbers and such).
Ah, reminds me of being an early adopter on Livejournal. I Have a pretty popular name on there and even recently, every once in a while, someone tries to get access to it/hack it. I no longer use it, and migrated all my entries to dreamwidth, but I'm never giving it up.
But I don't think it matters - a unique username is only special when we're on a singular centralized server where usernames have to be unique. When a good chunk of the content is being viewed back and forth across many different server instances, everybody is seeing a lot of everyone else's names with "username@instance-domain", which kind of is the "unnecessary underscores or numbers" because the host server is what makes our usernames unique.
If anything, our usernames mean even less than they did before, and that's OK!
I can't tell you how happy I was that this name hadn't been taken, I've had it in the back of my mind for years for a bit of a giggle and I'm so happy with it.
I'm not very creative, I cycled reddit accounts every few years and just had '(word)reddit(year)' or some other permutation of that format. I guess this name is a little bit better
I like just getting to try on a new identity. Didn't need to go for a short/common word name. I wanted something different than what I was using before. This fits.
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