(For reference, I have accounts on Lemmy, Mastodon, and Calckey/Firefish EDIT: actually it’s Misskey.)
I’ve thought about getting a /kbin account. Hesitated since there’s a wider network of Lemmy instances and they interoperate anyway. But /kbin is cool too.
If I didn’t already have multiple Mastodon accounts I might be more interested in getting a /kbin due to that microblogging feature. It seems like a neat idea, combining the two. I dunno how federation works though.
I actually don’t mind the term “magazines” that much but it is a little annoying when I have to explain the threadiverse to people and I have to keep saying “communities/magazines”. That said part of the reason I don’t mind “magazines” is that “community” is already a common noun for certain things I often want to refer to while “magazine” is not.
Regarding not seeing old posts: My trick is to just browse the community/magazine on its home instance, if I specifically am looking for stuff from that community/magazine. Then if I ever need to comment I just throw the fediverse link into my own instance’s search bar.
(See how I need to say community/magazine? lol, i could use “subreddit” but I don’t want to refer back to Reddit, heh)
Also it took me some time to figure out the difference between local links and fediverse links. I learned the following:
basically all content can be viewed in two ways: through my own instance or on its native instance (the “real” location)
only fediverse links can be looked up by things like Mastodon instances
if a user from instance A posts to a community on instance B, then that post will show on instance B’s community, but the “real” location of the post is actually on instance A
if I’m looking at a post in its native instance, I don’t get the fediverse link (which on Lemmy is a little fediverse icon). so if I see that icon it’s actually hosted somewhere else