Absolutely this. If you are looking for a community and you have issues finding, make it easier to find by letting others know. If it doesn't exist or lacking content, add it or build it.
Sort by all>top day, or all>new, or subscribed>new. Find an instance that is not defederated all over. Create posts and comments. Break your bad habits you had on reddit. And be patient. This is a platform that lends itself to organic growth and organization of content. The more you use it, the better it becomes. Lemmy etc are what we as a community want it to be.
Oh hey, the star is there for me too. As an old, I sometimes have issues recognizing all the diverse pictograms that modern tech design uses. Many of them are not intuitive, or are not standardized enough to assume any meaning without prior experience. In this case they're also really tiny on a phone screen.
if you're asking for kbin, I think there is no way at the moment, but I'm sure the developers will add it soon. kbin is a newer aggregator compared to lemmy
There are some early open betas going on for iOS apps through Test Flight.
mlem already reached their iOS testing limit of 10K users, but /c/memmy is trekking along with daily updates and not quite there yet. I’m using it now, in fact.
Both apps are planning to be publicly available in the App Store for 6/30 - and I’m sure there’s a few other developers work on stuff now as well. Really exciting times!
When you submit a reply or a post, always save it to your clipboard first. Lemmy has swallowed my responses many many times. In fact, it took me about 5-6 attempts to submit this comment.
I yolo'd the last sentence. For what it's worth, i think something is not right with my profile and the language settings. But I have learned to expect nothing to work. And when it does, i am pleasantly surprised.
For kbin users, have a play in the settings area - the cog in the hamburger menu top left. You can customise it to look a bit like old.reddit, or Rif, or Sync by turning settings on and off. (previews, thumbnails, top bar etc.)
Just looked into this myself. They have different github projects.
They use the same protocols but different experience. Like buying a chocolate bar from different stores, you get different layout and clerk service but basically the same candy bar.
(I'm also new so someone correct me if I'm wrong).
Kbin and lemmy are both what's known as "aggregators" for the fediverse. Basically what that means is that they each get their content from the same place (the fediverse) and can interact by talking with each other to update posts, comments, etc, but apart from that they have no connection. Lemmy is written by one person, kbin is written by another person, but since they both follow the ActivityPub protocol, they can federate.
As for hosting, each aggregator has its own "instances" which are their own unique site/clone of the aggregator. Anyone can host an instance, and people who sign up for accounts on each instance remain on that instance alone, but are able to interact with content on other instances because they all connect to the wider fediverse. Lemmy and kbin both have "default" instances, which are just instances that happen to be hosted by the creator of the respective aggregator.
So basically, the difference is that they are two entirely different applications that are simply capable of talking to each other.
Kbin is also like Mastadon. It's basically the same thing as lemmy, just with a slightly different user interface. (I personally like it better, which is why I'm here, lol.)
The main kbin instance, kbin.social, is hosted by a guy called @Ernest, who's also the main (only?) dev who created kbin. But there are other kbin instances hosted by totally unaffiliated people, too.
I’m no expert but I can do my best. Kbin was created by @ernest, and is actually a very young platform compared to even Lemmy. It let’s you post threads, similar to Reddit or Lemmy. Like Lemmy, it also uses something called ActivityPub, which means that Kbin users can see and comment on Lemmy threads and vice versa as long as the instances (ex. Lemmy.world, kbin.social) are “federated” meaning that they are talking to each other.
One of the big differences is that Kbin supports microblogging as well, similar to a Mastodon or Twitter post. Because of this, you can see and interact with content on Mastodon from Kbin much more easily, which also uses ActivityPub. Lemmy can also technically interact with Mastodon but it is not as seamless as threads don’t display that well on a microblog and vice versa.
There’s some more technical and cultural differences as well but I think that’s the biggest difference in function.
Please tell me how I can follow a magazine / community in Mastodon. I tried to do it but would only see a random comment, not the OP of a post or any of the other comments. When I would click on the comment it would take me directly to Kbin or Lemmy. (Which is fine, since I'm mainly on Kbin for the message board feel and on Mastodon for the miceoblog experience.)
Are you talking about subscribing to a magazine? I do it on mobile by clicking the magazine I want, clicking the top left square button modal with the 3 lines, then scroll down until you see the magazine name to click Subscribe
I was trying to subscribe to kbin magazines and Lemmy communities in Mastodon. When I've done it, they show up incomplete in Mastodon. But maybe there were initial issues with info coming across so I might try it again. Then again, I don't mind being on kbin to see kbin and Lemmy posts, and being in Mastodon to see only Mastodon posts.
Thanks. I did this on mobile, maybe thats why it doesn't work that way for me. Or I can try again, maybe there were some initial issues with federating.
@Very_Bad_Janet@npastaSyn@vjprema I see ActivityPub as a beta feature. Still has some issues in syncing comments or even showing them.
So is better if you have some patience.
For example: some of my comments in Kbin take a day to be added into a post. While on Lemmy is instantaneous.
Probably a reason to use Lemmy over Kbin if you're in Mastodon.
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