Mintyytea

@Mintyytea@kbin.social
Mintyytea,

okay the only thing is, I'm not sure if it's a good idea to keep making instance names that don't start with kbin.___ because then if kbin/lemmy really do take off, it would be so hard to google search for them. You can't do the site:kbin.* search if those instances with different names make magazines/communities and you can't find them with that google filter

Mintyytea,

The only thing that'd be cool is if these community browsers could add the search for other communities as well, like for the kbin aggregator's communities. There's one called RedditMigration (https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration or @RedditMigration) that has more than 250 posts, and it's started on kbin.social. It would be cool to be able to search more easily other communities so that it's easier to find the content on the fediverse.

Kbin can improve its community search too but I am finding it easier to know about other communities not on kbin on its search. Whereas, on lemmy, maybe it's because I'm on a lower population instance, but it's very hard to find a community if it's not on lemmy, and I didn't already just know about it from the kbin account

Mintyytea,

yeah that's what I'm struggling with too, like it'd be great if we could encourage people to try these, but at the same time I don't want to give them a bad first impression to turn them off forever if they can not stand it's still a baby project (understandable). I honestly don't think it's that hard to start using these fediverse products though, and I feel like the posts saying "lemmy will never take off", "kbin is too hard to use" only gave me barriers to start using it. And then when I did start, I was like oh this is great, everyone's talking, it's a close community

Mintyytea,

I think they want to push for it, and I'm also encouraging people to give it a try because it's not as good without the members. Most of the subs I miss are too niche so they won't really be populated here if not enough people try this fediverse thing out. I already decided I was okay with giving up the subs, but I think I still want to do my best to try to build this as a platform if it's viable. I don't think just because people are trying to advertise fediverse means they're hardcore stuck on this as a platform and desperate. It's kind of just the natural thing to do for anyone who wants to transition to a large forum. There's a lot of other small forums too besides this one

Mintyytea,

I do think you are overreacting a little bit about people being potentially invested in the fediverse/invested in trying to find a different home to replace reddit. It's not a bad thing for people to care and be unhappy about the way their reddit forum is being run. Without any emotions at all, there can be no actions or changes done anyway. How would people have transitioned from diggs to reddit if some core users weren't upset enough to test the waters with reddit?

People want to avoid and use reddit less because they don't approve of the way the company is running their product. If you don't feel uncomfortable using reddit, that's great, and you absolutely should just use either/both the way you enjoy it. However, it seems like your argument is that no one should be unhappy to the extent they stop using reddit, and I feel like everyone can have products they don't want to buy anymore due to their internal ethics. It's just a human thing to do to.

Mintyytea,

What does it mean to be a bot account? I saw the setting, but I didn't know what it meant

Mintyytea,

Do you have to do something special to truly make your account a bot? Like give it a function it can do as a bot? (I'm not trying to make this account a bot though)

Mintyytea, (edited )

I can think of the community/magazine "memes" :)

Edit: oh my bad, I completely didn't realize you specifically said Videos

Mintyytea,

https://imgur.com/a/jFq5RZa like this? I typed
![https://imgur.com/a/jFq5RZa](url)

I don't know completely what you mean. I'm on kbin, so currently for me it shows a blue link "image" but it doesn't seem to do anything when I click it. Wonder if it looks different on lemmy

Mintyytea,

maybe kbin is too young to be able to do what you're describing? I'll put a screenshot of what I can see (desktop for kbin.social)
https://imgur.com/a/g3dJUyy https://imgur.com/a/g3dJUyy

(btw will you type exactly the command you put, maybe with the code `` option)?

Mintyytea,

Alright so I went on lemmy cuz I'm using both xD and I can finally see what you meant in your earlier comment. You said do
![image](__image_url__) right? eg. ![image](https://imgur.com/a/g3dJUyy)
image

and I'll give postimages a go :) I just used imgur since I knew about it

Mintyytea,

yeah I think you're right. I went on lemmy and it looked a little different haha

Mintyytea,

Do you think it's not good though that we might have to append those different filters to be able to get all the relevant items on the fediverse? Btw what exactly would your search query be? I'm curious because I don't actually know the rules for making the google search queries

Mintyytea,

Thanks :)

Mintyytea,

Oh yeah I saw the people at Lemmy are swamped xD I’m sure the developers in kbin are swamped too though…200 new issues

Mintyytea,

I'm not sure because I'm still new to kbin too. I'm also on kbin.social which is already big and people have already subscribed before to many of the magazines. So far it's always worked for me to use the search bar on the Magazines page, and just type the name or part of the name of the Lemmy community. It's kind of nice too since it'll show all existing communities/mags, and number of threads made, number of kbin.social subscribers.

for example I just try to type "anime" to find subs like that, and I tried "seattle" and could find it, but I'm guessing it's because you did that work just now to be the first subscriber on kbin.social?

Mintyytea,

Are they just not working for now or something? When I tried these, nothing was found.

For kbin, for now I just type the name of the lemmy community, and that will show a bunch of communities/mags and where they're actually from like "nostupidquestions" gives nostupidquestions@lemmy.world, NoStupidQuestions@kbin.social, nostupidquestions@lemmy.ml, nostupidquestions@lemmy.ca, nostupidquestions@mander.xyz. It seems if I try putting "@nostupidquestions" there's no search results

I'll put a picture of what I get when I search on lemmy

Mintyytea, (edited )

Omg that sounds great! Thanks, I'm not that familiar with that google search filter and the possibilities we can put :)

Edit: I tried it, but I'm not sure yet, I think it adds a lot of entries I wasn't expecting, but it's still another great option to do the search. I tried it with: < desantis "join Lemmy" OR "powered by kbin" >

Mintyytea,

aww that's kind of a bummer then, I'm a little sad since I thought this made it equal to reddit's search. I don't really care for reddit becoming good for stuff like tiktok/youtube shorts, but I like it a lot for being able to search easily for real people's inputs. I thought there was no con for federation since the content is shared, but the decentralization seems to make it harder to search that content in the fediverse

Mintyytea,

I think it won’t be able to get everything since the search result is the webpage that’s gonna be on different communities.

I tried these searches, and they have different results. I’d be missing some content on the fediverse on the topic if I didn’t remember to include all these

pear site:kbin.social
pear site:kbin.*
pear site:lemmy.*

Mintyytea,

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

Mintyytea,

Set your settings early on so you can get notifications xD (click your username, then Settings)

The defaults are set to be very minimal, so I was wondering why I never knew if anyone had replied to me.

Almost none if these were set by default

Mintyytea,

Maybe you can reword your title/description cuz I do get what you're saying. Many people are like "the fediverse sites/apps are so hard to use", but I think some of the features are just really new so it's like awkwardly placed just so they can at least get the feature out. Once I knew how to properly search for magazines on kbin (I think the regular search bar doesn't search magazines well, you have to hit Magazine tab and then do that search bar), create a thread, set my notification settings (the default is like no notifications, and no showing of NSFW), find what magazines I subscribed to, I started to have lots of fun, and I could see they are building these sites well.

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