Noki, 11 months ago

@piezzo https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/52838/A-starting-guide-to-kbin-social-support-thread-for-new-users
https://kbin.social/m/kbinfaqs@kilioa.org/t/20459/A-small-FAQ-to-hopefully-help-new-users-to-kbin
You can read this post for some info on kbin

piezzo, 11 months ago

@Noki thank you very much! I was looking for something like this.

mightyweasel, 11 months ago

@piezzo heya. so there's probably 3 timelines you're looking at:

federated - this shows off public toots from all servers that kbin.social knows about. lotta stuff in here, it pretty much never stops

local - toots from people on the kbin.social server

home - tools from people you're following (this'll be near dead at the start)

i'd recommend you scroll thru federated or local for a while, and find interesting people to follow

mightyweasel, 11 months ago

@piezzo
when you get a breather, go into your account settings and add some details of what you're into and your interests + add a pic. it'll help people with your same interests to realize they'd like to follow YOU

mightyweasel, 11 months ago

@piezzo

more advanced tips when you start dipping your toes into posting:

• Use CWs (content warnings) liberally. Politics/eye contact are 2 used commonly. If you check media under my profile you'll see what I've done so far.

• Totally cool here to be a person instead of a brand.

• When posting images, always include alt-text. This allows those with visual challenges to enjoy your post, too.

• Use Hashtags. It's how searches get found. Use CamelCase for the tags, not lowercase.

caos, 11 months ago

@mightyweasel These are good tips for Mastodon users, but the thread starter @piezzo uses #kbin. That GUI and settings look different.

mightyweasel, 11 months ago

@caos @piezzo oof good point, was unaware. Will check it out

piezzo, 11 months ago

@mightyweasel thank you very much for all of this information. definitly will add some details about me and a pic later!

gmatkins, 11 months ago

There's cat pictures. Also some open discourse. Mostly cat pictures.

recursed, 11 months ago

I joined early last week and the joinfediverse wiki helped me better understand how it's federation worked. Maybe that would be a good place to start 👍

Wander, 11 months ago

Welcome! It's pretty easy actually.

Everyone with a little bit of technical knowledge can set up their owner server, also called an "instance".

Users sign up for a instance and get access to the communities created on the instance they signed up for but also to the communities of other servers because they can communicate with each other.

The big advantage is that it's not a walled garden. Unlike reddit where one company controls everything, if someone here we're to pull a "Spez" (what Reddit did) they would be laughed out of the room because each server is owned independently.

Currently there's two popular softwares to run these servers: Lemmy and Kbin. But that's just a program that server owners run. I believe there's currently over 300 servers that are running one of these softwares to create this distributed social network.

recursed, 11 months ago

+1 to everything you said, and just wanted to mention for Lemmy you can visit the /instances page to see a rough approximation of the amount of instances. There are currently ~762 instances and 26.9k monthly active users.

Many of these users, (myself included), have migrated over from the Reddit API controversy and growing pretty strong.