I know this is the wrong time to ask, but can anyone recommend a fediverse instance for a long-running local (Manchester UK) sci-fi virtual book club? (a few posts a month I'd expect)
I actually think a Mobilizon instance might be useful. Yes, the UI isn't the most customizable, but it does federate and people with Mobilizon accounts can interact pretty deeply with any Mobilizon group you make.
You could create a group there (you need a Mobilizon account to manage and administer the group, but Mastodon/etc can follow the "group account" (not your Mobilizon one) to get posts and events sent to their timeline.
Why are people able to see who votes on a post? When someone up/down votes a post it should be only visible to the person who did the voting, not the owners the poster or anyone else
This is due to the nature of the Fediverse mostly. Kbin, lemmy and other platforms all exchange data with each other using a standard that's meant to be flexible, but has a lot of ambiguity. As a result, to accommodate the vastly different platforms (not just kbin or lemmy which are the Reddit-like platforms), some of the design decisions end up with behavior that doesn't quite fully mimic the large social media platforms that many of them try to emulate.
In this regard, upvotes are actually using what's known as a "Like/Favorite/Star" to represent them. These by design, are a way to let the creator of the content/post/thread/microblog/etc know that you "like" their content. In kbin, instead of showing it as a number of "likes" or "favorites" as on other platforms, shows as the number of "Upvotes" on a thread, or post. Lemmy also uses "Like/Favorite/Star" for upvotes.
Whats the best place to post kbin change ideas to get feedback and a temp check from admins and the community before I commit time to PRs? Should I open issues on the repo, or is this mag a good fit? Or somewhere else?
@the8thbit
The issues on codeberg are a good place to discuss since they don’t “move around” so to speak.
The matrix room can help some with feedback but my opinion is we should be pushing more details-oriented comments to codeberg for better tracking. Matrix suffers from things rolling off and losing visibility.
With respect to kbin, I see "in [x] minutes" beside posts. Is this referring to when the post is to be federated? I don't understand the implications of that phrase in that context like I do with "[x] hours ago".
Hopefully easy to answer question. I'm tryna follow an account that's on Mastodon. Is this possible at this point. When I try to search for the account I get an error. Newbie to the fediverse.
@dozerforshort
A couple of things to double check while you try to search for them.
When entering their name in the search box, kbin cares about upper case and lower case so just make sure you enter it either all lowercase or exactly how it’s spelled with upper and lower case.
If the remote instance(server) has enabled something called “Authorized Fetch” then kbin cannot follow the account yet. Kbin support for authorized fetch is on the roadmap but the main developer has been swamped recently.
It is also possible that the remote instance has blocked your kbin instance.
I haven’t tried following an account that requires to approve follow requests so I’m not sure how well kbin supports that.
Kbin might be backed up in the delivery queues and it might take time.
It's not a bug. I'm pretty sure it has to do with something about magazines must have an owner. Remote communities aren't "created" on the local instance but instead "synced up" and so it uses the admin account as the owner of the newly created magazine.
Remote magazines can be created on the local instance even without someone explicitly searching for it (I believe since that what seems to have happened on my instance) so I believe it just assigns the owner to the admin.