That link lets me scroll through all the communities, or search.
I do see the magnifying glass, so I can search for communities. But I don't see a way to browse communities.
I like other things about the Kbin layout and feel, so I'd like to try to stay here. But so far it doesn't seem easy to browse the Fediverse communities here.
(Also, I was trying to add a POST, but I don't know how to do that. Just switched me over to MICROBLOG. This is not very straightforward.)
yeah their terminology is confusing, and who knows, maybe someday they'll change it. I learned what they are, so now I get it more and can help you.
As the other commenter said, communities/subreddits are called "magazines" and you can click Magazines, then there's a search bar specifically for the magazines. On kbin.social, a large server, you'll be able to search for both lemmy and kbin forums there. I also click All for my feed since that seems to give me posts to look at more often
To make a new post, kbin calls that a Thread. "Post" on kbin is actually more like a tweet(twitter)/toot(mastodon). To make a thread, click Add a new article , or Add a new link/video/photo
@mintyytea As someone that's relatively new to this platform. Would you happen to know what the next to the reply button means? Would it be the same as awards on reddit?
@GoodKingElliot I'm going to follow this because I keep getting routed to microblogging instead of actual posting.
That said, if you want to find different forums, click "Magazine" at the top toolbar, and it will route you to different forums. You can then "Subscribe" and/or "Search" like you would for Subreddits. If you click on the dropdown menu next to your username, it will give a few different "view" options. click "Subscribed" to select a feed of your subscriptions. It is not default, and if you want to view subscription feed right now you have to choose it every time. If you click on the kbin icon at the left it will give you the equivalent of "r/all."
Keep in mind that "all" is not actually "all of the entire fediverse". It's "all federated with this instance". A server will only federate communities that at least one users has specifically subscribed to.
If you know the exact name and instance of a community, you can add it to the communities that your server is federated with by entering it in the !name@instan.ce format in search, or @name@instan.ce on kbin, and subscribing. This will cause that community/magazine to push its content to your instance, and make it discoverable for others on it.
For finding whats available, consider starting threads on big communities asking what others have found. I started a very successful one on here: https://lemmy.world/post/294805
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