What Kbin communities do you subscribe to?
I mostly see Lemmy communities in my "All" page, but I am not sure if that is the case, how discovery across Kbin and Lemmy would work.
I mostly see Lemmy communities in my "All" page, but I am not sure if that is the case, how discovery across Kbin and Lemmy would work.
I have a kbin post on my front page, but it's near the bottom. It's from their politics magazine.
It doesn't just depend on discovery, it also depends on level of activity.
Some instances and communities are waaaaaaaaay more active than others. Meme communities pretty much dwarf anything else at the moment in terms of content, but that is slowly changing. However, it means in the meantime that newer posts or posts with less activity won't float to the top so much.
As more people actually interact with big discussion threads about serious issues, more of those will float to the top.
In my experience, it really pays to upvote and interact with anything that really interests you. It's intimidating to throw in the first comment, but important. A post is more likely to stay at zero comments the more people see zero comments. Why would you want to interact in a thread where nobody has posted? No one talking?
You'll end up with a few posts as the sole commenter, but you'll end up with more posts with discussion.
If you want to see more kbin content, do that for all kbin content you see, and you'll be helping spur growth. My two cents anyway. Cheers.
This is a really important point. If I sort by new I see a lot more diversity.
The politics magazine is increasingly very active, and overall so far more polite than the larger politics communities.
Judging by the front page of KBin.social, they don't subscribe to many KBin magazines over there either lmao
It's like several pages of all lemmy community posts
It sort of makes sense. A lot of folks liked the existing Lemmy community (it has been around a few years now) but prefer the layout of kbin. Which probably leads Lemmy to be more active just due to the combined userbase activity there.
Lemmy is just a lot bigger and older, so it's more active.
If I toggle local my all becomes kbin and of course my subscribed has a lot of kbin.
Sorting by new gives me a lot more kbin as well.
I made an account on both world and kbin, I gave up mostly on the kbin account, I couldn't find anything local that caught my eye and I didn't like the UI layout for it, that night be part of their issue as well
Funny, I started on Lemmy and switched to kbin because I prefer kbin's UI. Can't please everybody!
Which is why platform diversity and interoperability is or can be a super power for the fediverse. you can’t please everybody with a single platform, but you might have a chance with an ecosystem of different platforms that can talk to each other.
that you can not! lol Thankfully theres ton's of options. I personally couldn't get into having communities be called magazines, I found it confusing to find what I wanted then I moved to lemmy and then it was somewhat re-enforced the decision when it was stated that the instance was being de-federated from some instances so I sorta just stayed.
I agree that magazines is a stupid name for it, but it's easy to get used to and it doesn't really matter what you call them. People understand.
I did the same. Then realised I could follow most of the more interesting kbin magazines from lemmy. So that’s where I’ve stayed.
Also, having a mobile app is probably the second most important thing to me (after content). And lemmy has lots of options there.
A bunch, but some are obviously more active than others. Politics, news, worldnews, science, workreform, wholesome, nottheonion....
I was subbed to some of the post-reddit ones, but I'm over that now. I think just "Ask Kbin" is left.