cjerrington

cjerrington, 11 months ago

You posted this on the /m/kbinMeta on kbin.social from your instance. So you're right in the fact that when you search it does only show the local ones. As your instance starts federation by users and interactions, things should pick up a little. Then users on your instance will soon start to see content and make magazines and groups there too.

cjerrington, 11 months ago

Tags are a way to help spread the microblog or thread type into the fediverse and searchable as well. While on mastodon, I can see a microblog or thread post type of article, link, etc, it'll show the tags, but the posts do not appear in the same tagged way a post from mastodon with a tag does. I think this is a bug for now.

If you are on a Mastodon instance and follow a kbin.social user for example, you will see their posts and comments to on kbin and can interact still on the same thread in kbin for example.

cjerrington, 11 months ago

Cross posting a comment from kbin. I think I initially was talking about the content itself of people posting the same link to "some news story" multiple times. Sometimes its the same user across instances rather than letting the federation happen.

cjerrington, 11 months ago

I wonder if some of it also has to do with how federation works. Once a user visits and follows another instance the two instances start to federate. The more instances and sites of lemmy/kbin and the more users the harder it might get.

Are the communities on lemmy or kbin you are looking for?

On Kbin looking for lemmy or other federations: /m/community@lemmyinstance.tld
On kbin looking for the geddit info community on geddit.social: https://kbin.social/m/geddit@geddit.social

On lemmy looking for /m/KbinMeta: /c/magazine@kbininstance.tld
https://geddit.social/c/kbinMeta@kbin.social

cjerrington, 11 months ago

I can find the mod's profile on kbin: https://kbin.social/u/@donmildreone@lemmy.ml

and I know other communities on lemmy.ml work as I subscribe to the /m/linux@lemmy.ml from kbin. Might need time or more posts to start the federation.

cjerrington, 11 months ago

I don’t think kbin offers this yet. On mastodon you can add .rss at the end of the username like

https://mstdn.social/@cjerrington.rss

cjerrington, 11 months ago

@ernest Doesnt look like this is valid RSS though. https://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=https%3A%2F%2Fkbin.social%2Frss%3Fmagazine%3DkbinMeta

Not sure if that will cause any issues. Didn't know this existed yet! Thanks!

cjerrington, 11 months ago

I know some folks have used RSS for many things on user accounts as well. Sometimes there could be a reason you cant subscribe to a user or magazine and RSS is a way around that. I subscribe to my mastodon rss feed just for fun too.

using the RSS feed you could link it to a blog or personal website as well and share your posts in a way to others who may not be on the same site as you. Like sharing your posts on your websites so others can see on your site what it is you post so they dont have to have an account as well on kbin for example.

Or you can get a RSS firehose of accounts together to keep up on things outside of the community to ensure you dont miss something in your /m/sub feed.

cjerrington, 11 months ago

I signed up! I got into the fediverse and enjoyed it a year ago! I'm using kbin more at the moment and would like to help support the process. Also have a lemmy account as well to test some of the multiaccount features and when users have both lemmy and kbin. You can find me on kbin or mstdn as well!

Thanks for your work in getting the first apps made for these platforms.

cjerrington, 11 months ago

I think this would be the best too. Just like when you see a post thread and it says "This is federated, click the instance to see more", change the Owner to the root instance level or link to the community/magazine of the federated content.

cjerrington, 11 months ago

I saw a post from earnest and he started following me on mastodon. Then joined kbin during the reddit migration, and kept up with @stux when he started up Geddit.social

cjerrington, 11 months ago

Thanks for sharing! I like the Prompt update, that is a nice way to use that process to update the user prompt.

cjerrington, 11 months ago

I've been able to see that you can block individual communities on lemmy, but not domains yet.

cjerrington, 11 months ago

I like that part too. Makes you engage in the conversation already going and add your own comments to that, rather than repeating the same answer over and over.

cjerrington, 11 months ago

Ubuntu is already looking to All-Snap Ubuntu Desktop Will Be Available Next Year

cjerrington, 11 months ago

How many are you looking at using for the private beta? Might want to adjust the google form to only allow one signup per account, so users dont reregister.

cjerrington, 11 months ago

Thanks @lilkev !