I've been on Mastodon for several years but I'm just getting into the Fediverse as far as a Reddit alternative. I very much want to move away from big social on all fronts. Elon was the straw that broke the camels back for me. I'm still trying to understand how Kbin and Lemmy work together and/or separately. I created an account on kbin.social and I'm using it for this post. Do I need to also create an account on Lemmy to access all the Lemmy based content? Is there some other good reason to also make a separate Lemmy account?
Trying to migrate to kbin, but have several small questions after using it for some minutes now.
Can anyone please expain how to ask simple questions within this magazine, like:
How can I ask questions here without posting a new link, photo, article or video?
Questions like:
How can I add magazines to my favourites?
How can I search a specific magazine (like RedditMigration for those quesions I have...)?
Finally:
Is there a more extensive user guide than kbin's user guide on Github?
All of the options in + except making a new magazine is creating a thread. The "Add new article" is equal to making a text thread.
You should be able to find some useful guides or info if you click "top" on the homepage, or go to /m/kbinMeta and click top to find some useful guides. Out of those this one should be a pretty helpful start.
With regards to the shortcomings of federation and buy-in friction for new users, that op-ed republished by arstechnica isn't wrong.
I don't know what to do about it. I don't have the bandwidth or knowledge to fix the problem. But I would support those who can lower the friction for new users and assist with the growth of non-billionaire-owned platforms.