I can't seem to interact with Mastodon posts from my Kbin account?
I haven't used this platform since the mass migration a few months ago. I thought I would give it another try.
Back then the main reason I chose Kbin over Lemmy was I was under the impression that Kbin would allow me to partake in both Lemmy and Mastodon.That it would combine a Twitter and Reddit experience into one login. Is that not the case? Do I also need a Mastodon account to respond to posts on Mastodon instances?
This Fediverse platform is still as confusing as it was months ago. Likely I just need a little further guidance.
@slybird You should be able to view, post, and interact with Mastodon posts (and posts from similar platforms) by clicking the Microblog tab in the header. If you want to view both Reddit-style threads and microblog posts, click the All Content tab.
Unfortunately, microblogging on Kbin is quite buggy due to poor federation (i.e., connection with other instances like Mastodon sites, Lemmy sites, etc.). The Kbin developer has been working on better infrastructure for handling federation with Lemmy instances, Mastodon instances, other Kbin instances, etc. Hopefully that those improvements fix most of the issues with microblogging, but we'll have to see.
You can follow the progress of Kbin's development over at @kbinDevlog. The dev posts there about every day.
I'm searching up my interests and finding magazines for those interests, but there is absolutely no content in a vast majority of them. If the curious Reddit users coming here don't find content when they search up their interests they won't stay long and this site will fail.
The people that create Magazines should also propagate content into them. If they are not passionate about the subject enough to propagate even a few starter pieces of content I wonder why they started the magazine in the first place. Do they just want to be the top mod?
This site is filled with people that are just mad at Reddit, but that anger at Reddit isn't what will cause this site to grow and become a thriving environment. This site needs content.
@slybird A vast majority of the magazines we're blitzed on day one with hopes that we would fill them up as the torrent of people came over. People quickly found that there were already thriving communities out on lemmy for the same topics, so many magazines were abandoned. It's an issue that @ernest is aware of.
In the mean-time, someone was nice enough to make this site to help people find those thriving communities that have migrated away from reddit: https://sub.rehab/
I've not seen this mentioned anywhere. Might be a warning for some. Favorite/Reduces voting records on this platform are public. This platform requires an email address, at least it did for me. Can't make a throwaway account as easily here to my knowledge.
Overtime voting records contain a lot of info about a person. If for some reason the two accounts are connected a lot can be learned about a user using this platform. Might be a good idea to use your alt/secret email address if that is a concern.
I see some people using their real names or enough clues that their real identiy can be found out.. I hope they realize how transparent this platform is.
I'm imaging some will come here unaware of that fact, think they are just lurking, but still voting never the less. The voting gives info about what they were looking at and their opinion about what they were looking at. No comment is necessary.
Maybe they secretly looked at porn on Reddit an upvoted what they liked. secretly had a history of voting on gore/death subs, . . whatever it was, Reddit allowed that info to be kept between Reddit and the user.
Here that info is a public record. Bots will eventually be used to gobble that info up.
I'm also starting to wonder about the people and servers that are running and maintaining the instances. Have they been vetted? Are we just going on blind faith that they are keeping the user email data secure?
Is a user's upvote/downvote history a public or private record on Kbin?
Edit: Favorite and Reduce votes are public on this platform. Every comment and post voting record is public. A bot could crawl through and figure it out for every account. If for some reason you have your account linked to your email and that the two are connected and found out someone could learn a lot about you.