This whole system is a lot newer than most services you've used on the Internet. It's under constant change. Expect it to look different next week, month, or year.
this post was submitted on 16 Jun 2023
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Agreed. The systems are being flooded from the migration. Communities are quickly being formed. A little patience and people rolling up their sleeves to make it better go a long way.
Filter by New so you don't see the same few posts every time to open Lemmy.
... or top day if you want more established posts with lively comment sections that age out after 24h.
I've found that once you subscribe to enough active communities, that ceases to be a problem (assuming you're not checking it every few minutes).
On lemmy, you can tick off 'show read posts' in settings, so viewed posts are hidden.
This has been quite useful in keeping my feed fresh.
- Until we have migration tools, think of your account as disposable
- Never upload anything you don't want the world to see, no matter how private something claims to be
Can you explain the migration tools, or lack thereof.
In the mastodon/Calckey world you can migrate your account on one instance to a new account on a new instance and all the people following you will transfer and automatically follow your new account. So you don't have to be all "Hey moving to [xyz new instance] follow me there!"
That's something that's in the works for kbin and Lemmy some day
I'm curious if that works with unfederated servers or servers that simple just get shutdown. Ie xyz government decides to raid the servers, (is there redundancy in the data?)
I guess the main challenge would be proving to the new instance that the old offline instance authorized the transfer, maybe something like a keypair could be generated with each account and a signed proof attached to the user profile that gets federated around as other servers receive user profile objects, then provide an account backup function that lets you save the keys as a file so the importing server can verify the key and federate the change of ownership of content to other instances somehow.
Currently, no. Right now you tell your new instance to expect a transfer from your old. Then you tell your old your new instance and if they match, the transfer begins. In your example, you wouldn't be able to do half the steps needed so it would fail. And since each server is unique, it would be up to them whether or not there were any backups or not.
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There isn't explicitly a profit motive on here (unlike almost every other big social media site).
So you can do away with the clickbait-y, karma or like farming...
We don't do that here.
"So you can do away with the clickbait-y, karma or like farming..."
Are there many individual users who participate in these type of activities?
My understanding is that a lot of it is automated: farming with the intent to make accounts look legitimate and eventually manipulate public opinion to whatever ends (like selling a product/service).
Is kbin doing anything different that would curb or dissuade such behavior?
Yeah, but the ROI here is way less since the users are more savvy initially. Eventually it'll homogenize out and you'll get auto bots.
This post written by a meat popsicle.
Corben Dallas?!?
Chicken good.
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When you submit a reply or a post, always save it to your clipboard first. Lemmy has swallowed my responses many many times. In fact, it took me about 5-6 attempts to submit this comment.
There are some early open betas going on for iOS apps through Test Flight.
mlem already reached their iOS testing limit of 10K users, but /c/memmy is trekking along with daily updates and not quite there yet. Iβm using it now, in fact.
Both apps are planning to be publicly available in the App Store for 6/30 - and Iβm sure thereβs a few other developers work on stuff now as well. Really exciting times!
Join a kbin instance and also join a Lemmy instance. Neither one is very stable yet (kbin has only been out a couple months) so I suggest using kbin until it starts having issues then switching to Lemmy for a while.
Aren't they cross compatible? I'm still fuzzy on the differences. Also lemmy instances were getting hammered, (as it looks like the kbin are too now), so thus my choice of kbin.
The downtime is getting better though. I made this kbin account like 2 days ago and logged off right away cuz I was trying to figure out magazines and each time I clicked something, it said I was not logged in and I had to relog.
Today Iβm trying it out again and everything is working, though sometimes I get a 503 error if I try to open a page or post something
Normally, yes! You can browse and interact with lemmy communities from kbin and vice versa with absolutely no problems.
However, since both are still so new, it's common for one or both to crash. And if your home interface is down, you won't be able to vote or comment anywhere until it comes back online-- even on other instances which are still up. So if you're an impatient person (like me, lol), it makes sense to make an account on each, so if one crashes you can switch to the other.
Set your language preference to undecided and English so all posts display correctly. I kept seeing communities with "no posts" till I did this
I also can't find this setting. I'm assuming it's not part of kbin.
I'm not too familiar with kbin but if you've been experiencing invisible posts then it could be worth suggesting it as a feature? Hopefully things like this get better ironed out soon
Don't forget to hit the CTRL button when clicking on any external links so they open in a new tab. Basically pretend it's 2012 again.
Or use the middle mouse button.
@npastaSyn Thanks to ActivityPub you can use Lemmy/Kbin and other fediverse social networks without the need of making a new account in them.
Right now I'm writing this from Mastodon.
If I were about making an account probably I'll go to lemmy.ca people over there seem extra chill.
Like adding extra Lemmy to an order of Lemmy.
Please tell me how I can follow a magazine / community in Mastodon. I tried to do it but would only see a random comment, not the OP of a post or any of the other comments. When I would click on the comment it would take me directly to Kbin or Lemmy. (Which is fine, since I'm mainly on Kbin for the message board feel and on Mastodon for the miceoblog experience.)
Are you talking about subscribing to a magazine? I do it on mobile by clicking the magazine I want, clicking the top left square button modal with the 3 lines, then scroll down until you see the magazine name to click Subscribe
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Can somebody ELI5 the difference between kbin and lemmy. I think I understand lemmy being like mastadon. Who is hosting kbin?
Iβm no expert but I can do my best. Kbin was created by @ernest, and is actually a very young platform compared to even Lemmy. It letβs you post threads, similar to Reddit or Lemmy. Like Lemmy, it also uses something called ActivityPub, which means that Kbin users can see and comment on Lemmy threads and vice versa as long as the instances (ex. Lemmy.world, kbin.social) are βfederatedβ meaning that they are talking to each other.
One of the big differences is that Kbin supports microblogging as well, similar to a Mastodon or Twitter post. Because of this, you can see and interact with content on Mastodon from Kbin much more easily, which also uses ActivityPub. Lemmy can also technically interact with Mastodon but it is not as seamless as threads donβt display that well on a microblog and vice versa.
Thereβs some more technical and cultural differences as well but I think thatβs the biggest difference in function.
If you want Lemmy to be successful, contribute as much high quality content as possible so more people will be inclined to stay here. Don't lurk.
Possibly the wrong place to ask but is anyone aware if there is a way to see a list of your favorites/upvotes in kbin?
Sort by all>top day, or all>new, or subscribed>new. Find an instance that is not defederated all over. Create posts and comments. Break your bad habits you had on reddit. And be patient. This is a platform that lends itself to organic growth and organization of content. The more you use it, the better it becomes. Lemmy etc are what we as a community want it to be.
Question: is there a way to save posts or comments?
At least on my instance, you can click the three dots under the post to open up some expanded options, then click the star to save the post.
On Jerboa, there should be a little bookmark icon under each post.
Oh hey, the star is there for me too. As an old, I sometimes have issues recognizing all the diverse pictograms that modern tech design uses. Many of them are not intuitive, or are not standardized enough to assume any meaning without prior experience. In this case they're also really tiny on a phone screen.
Thanks for the tip.
Commenting to see if anyone answers this because I don't know how to save it
Jerboa has a save flag on each and every comment and post. You can view them under the Saved section of the slide out menu
Yes you click the star to save post and comments and it's in the more button next to the reply button if you don't see it.
Yes of course. In the web app there's a little star icon you can click and on jebora theres a little badge next to the vote buttons
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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
go to /communities/listing_type/All/page/1 to find communities.
The full link beleive is...
https://lemmy.ml/communities/listing_type/All/page/1
I'm on kbin.social myself.
You can find all those bad people who got banned on reddit here and they have to be banned again :D
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