Hey keebinetters and fediverse, what are your favourite kbin/fediverse magazines (communities)?

Lets make a thread to post our niches that we have found here. Big magazines are ok too.

I'll start: /m/mechanicalkeyboards, so glad it migrated here!

Edit: You can add a direct fediverse link (so that any users from any fediverse instance looking at this post can click on it) with the following two methods:

Click on the "link" button in the text editor, or manually write in the following format (all together):

[ /m/mechanicalkeyboards ] ( https://kbin.social/m/mechanicalkeyboards )

OR (all together):

@ mechanicalkeyboards @ kbin.social

Edit 2: magazine / community names are case-sensitive apparently, mind the uppercase letters!

cache_miss,

Working on getting /m/darkroom off the ground for anyone interested in darkroom processing or analog photography more generally. Come take a look!

Lazycog,
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I feel like these type of communities are going to be drawing folks here, thanks for creating the magazine and posting!

cache_miss,

Thanks for the support! I'd really like to see kbin succeed. I've been feeling a bit artistically uninspired lately, so this has been a great way for me to get back into the hobby myself ;)

Lazycog,
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I'm also rooting for kbin! I want this to be my new home. And yess, hope you find your muse again :)

CFinley97,

This is awesome. I loved r/analog, it was one of fav places online. You've encouraged me to post!

Excited for this magazine!

cache_miss,

Just saw your post—thanks for adding it! We're excited to have you.

Labototmized,

I really enjoyed /r/photocritique. Do you know of a similar place on the fediverse somewhere? I'm having no luck myself & I'm not really sure what all goes in to starting a community myself...

cache_miss,

I did a quick search on kbin and the Lemmy community browser and didn't see any dedicated photo critique spaces... yet! Of course you're welcome to post anything analog in /m/darkroom for feedback.

If you feel like you're up for committing a bit of time to moderating and growing a new space, creating a magazine is really easy—just mouse over the plus sign in the upper right, and click "Create New Magazine". You'll fill out a few details and you're all set. After creating mine, I filled out the sidebar with some basic info and created a sticky welcome thread so that the main page isn't blank until you get a few users. Then I posted in some related magazines on kbin and elsewhere trying to spread the word without being too obnoxious. I also made posts in /r/darkroom and /r/analog on Reddit. The good news is that my advertisements here were well received—it seems like everyone else is just as excited to see a new magazine getting started. Take a look at my profile if you need some examples, and feel free to post here if you decide to go this route and need some more help.

gonzo0815,

I aim to separate general mycological topics from ID requests, because the latter clogged up the sub back in the former homeland and was moderated much too laissez faire for my taste.

https://kbin.social/m/Mycology is the general mag.

https://kbin.social/m/MushroomID is for ID requests and mutual help at identification.

sab,
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Somehow I feel like people who understand fungi should have an easier time understanding the Fediverse as well. All these instances you see popping up everywhere are somehow connected and all part of the same whole, even though they could appear far apart.

I see a bright future for these communities.

Lazycog,
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Didn't think of that... so, fungiverse?

gonzo0815,

If I didn't have two left hands with five thumbs each, i'd draw an image explaining the fediverse with fungi.

Datsourdo,
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I made /m/baking for posts about bread, pastry, etc., since it was one of my favorite places on reddit.

Lazycog,
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Yess, subscribed! As someone who still can't make cookies in the oven without adding too much butter and ending up with one oven tray sized cookie, I need this community to keep me motivated.

Lazycog, (edited )
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To make this thread more active for shy/new users I'll add another favourite:

/m/GuildWars2 for us MMO nerds!

Edit: added a proper link.

kats,

Yay GW2 is my go to, glad there is a spot here!

Lazycog,
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Yiss!! Consider posting your character or a nice game screenshot, lets make it lively :)

Mice and talking gabbages are my favourite

lanbanger,

I created /m/floaf for cats which are both floofy and doing a catloaf. Then I didn't see the more traditional /m/catloaf and /m/floof, so I created those too.

Lazycog,
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It's over reddit, we have the cat picture posters. Thank for the magazine recommendations!

ViridianNott,

please... god... do not keep calling us keebinetters

Rodsterlings_cig,

Favorite is /m/thescarydoor, which is basically /r/futurama.

And for self promotion, /m/tardigrades as a local kbin reimaginating of /r/hydrohomies

Lazycog,
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Awesome, thanks for the links! and can't wait for the memes on @tardigrades

ViridianNott,

This is deeply ironic because tardigrades are some of the best... if not THE BEST animals in the world at surviving without water for extended periods.

Source: I'm a biologist in a lab that studies tardigrades

Rodsterlings_cig,

To live without water, you must become water.

Gordon_Freeman,
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Sorry for the self-promotion

https://kbin.social/m/NihonFalcom

Ys is one of my favourite franchises, so I created the Nihon Falcom (the developer) magazine

Lazycog,
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Hey that was one of the aims of this thread, the self-promo is welcome. Thanks for the link!

CheddarGoblin,
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Absolutely based. Ys is slept on like mattresses. Absolutely one of my favorite franchises anywhere, and I'll be joining this magazine.

Gordon_Freeman,
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Great. Thanks!!

PistolsAtDawn,

Wait…it’s pronounced “keebin”???

shizuka,
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I pronounce it as Koh-bin because that's how the letter K is pronounced in my language.

Zeeg404,
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This is the way. However it's pronounced in your language :)

Lazycog,
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I just made that up, was split between kiibiis, kibineers, and keebinetters. But like @JohnnyMcDank said it makes more sense to pronounce it kay/key.

JohnnyMcDank,

I also pronounce it Kaybin. Seems to make more sense.

thatfuckinglinuxguy,
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https://kbin.social/m/linuxmasterrace

Lazycog,
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Username checks out, I was looking for pcmasterrace earlier, guess I found my new home afterall. Thanks!

linko,
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Hoping for /cats /nintendo and /FireEmblem to debut here as well

Lazycog,
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Don't know if nintendo and fireemblem communities have been created yet anywhere in the fediverse, but @Ianbanger on this thread created cat communities: @floaf @catloaf and @floof !

shogoll,

Trying to get the ball rolling at /m/ApexLegends, looking forward to having more people over posting content!

Stopkilling0,
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Where my osrs homies at? https://kbin.social/m/2007scape/

kayjay,

🦀NO THIRD PARTY APPS🦀

Lazycog,
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Just got rid of reddit, and now you are brining back another old timesink addiction... /s

Awesome to hear that OSRS migrated here!

Labototmized,

Let's goooo! I hope the others find this!

mwknight,

There are really only a handful of niche reddit communities I'm worried about losing (it's surprisingly hard to connect with ~50,000 other people who all enjoy your same little hobby across the world) so I'm thrilled someone decided to kick-off a replacement for the audiodrama sub over here on
/m/audiofiction

eatmoregreenfood,
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YES! I loved audiodrama on Reddit. Subscribing

Lazycog,
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The kind of stuff I would not bump into without this thread, thanks for posting the magazine here! Hope that audiofolks find their way here.

cecirdr, (edited )
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How do I search kbin to find communities on Lemmy instances? For the life of me, all I can find are the local kbin magazines. They're great, but I'm newer here and already started participating in communities on beehaw and other instances. I'd like to be able to keep up with those communities too.

Honestly, the redundancy is looking like it's going to be a problem. There's a technology community of some sort on every instance for example. solarpunk, futurology etc.

Anyway, if someone knows the magic syntax where I can find and subscribe to these communities from kbin, I'd really appreciate it!

Edit: I'm an idiot. It looks like all you have to do is search for the right term. IOW, like Technology. So it's not likely that you'll find the exact same community if you don't know the correct community name or a partial name. There's no browsing of a Lemmy instance from what I can tell. Plus, I was using mobile until today. I think on my phone, the location of the community was truncated, so I had no idea that I'd already found the other communities I was already taking part in.

Lazycog, (edited )
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AFAIK they should appear in the magazine (community) search if atleast one person from kbin.social has subscribed, and first people on kbin.social to find them are finding them through sidebars of magazines, comments, and browsing other instances.

It works great on instances where this whole federation system is not broken, and I strongly believe it will work great here too! We just need to be bit patient since a mass migration is occurring on this instance which is held up by one person, who is constantly working on making the site scale up to the demand.

You can browse the already "connected" to kbin.social communities (some kbin.social user has searched a specific instance, i.e. typed into the search all together: @ deathcore @ lemmy.ml) to search already connected lemmy instances you can go to magazines tab and type "lemmy". When federation works again, you should see all the communities that have been connected to kbin.social by typing the community name.

EDIT: seems like the normal search (search icon on top bar) finds communities better which have not yet been connected. The federation being broken hinders the search a lot, but I was able to make the first connection to @firefox by typing (all together) @ firefox @ fedia.io and it made the link. Now anyone on kbin.social will find that community in the magazine search.

About the fragmentation of communities: this happens but it can have its benefits. When communities settle some might become more concentrated on a certain aspect of the topic, and crossposting will occur too so you don't have to worry about subscribing to all of them. I know that on reddit for example the original r/TikTokCringe was a cringe subreddit, but with time it became a home for all tiktoks (cool ones too). Someone decided to make a real TikTokCringe subreddit that fragmented from the original one and so on. Both had healthy amount of activity. The original actually became a sub for cool tiktoks, and the newer one the actual "cringe tiktok" sub.

Hope I could open up the topic a bit.

fiofiofio,
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@Futurology
@solarpunk
@art
A few I've found on my travels so far. slrpnk.net is definitely a good place to look for green/sustainable communities.

OurTragicUniverse,
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The links don't work, could you fix them please? I'd like to subscribeto those places!

Lazycog,
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I think the links only work if you open them in a new tab right now, but decided to write them as links instead of tags:

/m/Futurology

/m/solarpunk

/m/art

Calvinball,

Right up my alley! Subscribed, thank you.

fiofiofio,
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Thanks for that, still figuring out the formatting for things here

Lazycog,
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No worries, I'm also looking forward to a guide once things settle down and the kbin dev as time to properly document how things here work!

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