Introducing https://feddit.online, a new KBIN server

Jerry@feddit.online to /kbin meta@kbin.social – 127 points –

I've brought up a new KBIN instance, https://feddit.online

It's administrated from the Greater Boston, Massachusetts area. Everyone is welcome to sign up, so long as they follow the rules

I now, because I must be crazy, have 4 Fediverse servers running.

KBIN: https://feddit.online
Mastodon: https://hear-me.social
Calckey: https://bostonsocial.online
Peertube: https://my-sunshine.video

#KBIN #Fediverse

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Noob question - Could I use the same login here to log into yours?

No, federation only mirrors content across instances, not user profiles. Mastodon has an account migration feature, but kbin doesn't have that yet.

you'd have to create another account with the same name over there. there's not much point though, if you see a community over there that you'd want to subscribe, you can do that from your current account.

This is another thing I don’t get. Is there a way to view a list of ALL communities across all Fediverse instances, preferably ordered by size? Doesn’t even have to be searchable, I’d just start with a list.

Needing to jump from instance to instance, searching their available magazines - as a Kbin user - seems so clunky for something with so much promise.

I hope to God I’m doing this wrong.

I share your thoughts on this. The only reason my server has 301 magazines from other servers is because I visited those other servers, searched through their magazines, and one-by-one, entered their full names into mine because they seemed popular. I've confirmed with several others that this is how it works.

I hope this gets changed because what happens now is that there are multiple magazines, covering similar topics, all independent of each other on different servers. If I wanted to join a Linux discussion group, for example, I would want one Linux group shared across all servers. But, unless someone knows of a magazine on the other server and introduces it to the local server to link to it, there will be two independent groups. Multiply this by all the servers and there's quite a mess. People are missing out on discussions.

I want a true content aggregator. I don't think we've reached this goal yet.

https://kbin.social/magazines

isnt that just kbin instances?

doesn't look that way. if you go to the last page, you'll see small communities from other services like Lemmy, Friendica, and Guppe Groups.

you don't need to visit the pages of the other instances directly. If you visit them, then no, the same login is not working.

But you can find the content of other instances inside your "own" instance. For example the main community of that instance can be found here https://kbin.social/m/feddit@feddit.online

I highly doubt it; it's a separate "site", but it would federate with existing instances (presumably). You would have to make a new account there, follow the different mags you do here, and then delete this account.

Not sure if this is what is being discussed. But, you don't need to have an account on a KBIN instance to read the magazines. You just can't post anything. For example, https://readit.buzz/magazines will work. The same is true for Lemmy servers. I didn't create any Lemmy accounts to look through their communities (magazines)

I think he was asking if he could sign into the new instance with his kbin social account, which he couldn't. Absolutely he can read and interact with kbin magazines if federated, tho.