[Tips] Here are some shortcuts for your old reddit habits
PabloDiscobar@kbin.social to /kbin meta@kbin.social – 200 points – Your list of subs, in a grid make sure you set it to private
https://kbin.social/settings/subscriptions/magazines
The list of all subs, in a column, sorted by subscribers number
Your Inbox
https://kbin.social/settings/notifications
Your home, list of posts in your subs
All, all posts from all subs
All, sorted by new (aka "chaos")
you can search by tags: https://kbin.social/tag/tech
You can see who upvoted and downvoted your comments in the activity tab of the "more" button.
You can block a domain like you can block a user. Either through the url::
Http://kbin.social//d/nypost.com
Or by clicking the domain name and then click the block button.
Is there a way to save threads or save comments within kbin?
For posts you can just upvote them and it will show up on your profile.
Interesting. Good to know!
If it's not already in the works, I could see a lot of utility from adding a "favorited" or "saved" threads/comment option for users to better organize and access the content they want to as opposed to having to sift through what could end up being thousands upon thousands of upvotes.
Yeah...I upvote a lot of things, but save really useful stuff ... definitely need a save feature
I generally upvote any post as long as it's relevant. I also upvote comment chains I find amusing. Makes me feel part of the moment.
@Meditative
@PabloDiscobar @mihnt
Some Lemmy instances have the ability to Save. Would definitely like to have that!
Anyway to collapse comment tree's?
You can do it using an extension on the browser. You can find the thread here
Currently browser extension scripts. There’s also a few feature requests
@PabloDiscobar I was a $5.99 subscriber to Reddit until this weekend. I find $5/mo a fair price to pay to keep it going. I also enjoyed awarding folks the fake gold - I know it is worthless really but I have fun dropping a love bomb on someone who was really funny or helpful.
How about saving posts? I usually "scout" posts on mobile to return to later on desktop.
If you boost a post or comment it should show up in your profile under boosts.
This is not implemented yet, but as a workaround, posts you boost (or like, not sure) should appear in your favourites.
There's always the old fashioned way of creating bookmarks.
@DarkThoughts bookmarks? What is this 1999?
@PabloDiscobar @Bythenumbers
So what is "boost" going to do on a post, if I use that?
I believe that’s basically synonymous with a “retweet”
Or at least that’s what I could find
So it puts it on my personal profile, and if people were following me personally they'd see it.
@Magess bootsting also contributes to your reputation,where upvotes do not. Bizarrely, downvotes do affect reputation negatively, so people will tend to have negative fake internet points.
@PabloDiscobar
That's weird.
Wth is this microblog I'm seeing under threads?
It's essentially (in simplified terms) a Mastodon client.
There's really no reddit equivalent, but if you pretend reddit and twitter had the same web interface, you'd get close to that "Threads" and "Microblog" are.
I understand the concept, but not the purpose. Why would I post something to a microblog when I can post a thread? Or I guess if I was more twitter-savvy, why would I create a thread when I can post something to a microblog?
Why would you post something to twitter when you can just post it to Reddit?
Same answer.
Maybe you wouldn't. But this being the fediverse I can follow all the communities/magazines from other services, like Mastodon, Pixelfeed or Peertube (fediverse equivalents for Twitter, Instagram and Youtube). I can post to these communities/magazines from those apps as well. Those posts will end up as Microblogs.
I am finding that is kind of broken. I mean, if I follow a Lemmy community "News" I can see all the posts in my Mastodon home feed, but I also see all the inane comments and boosts (out of context), so it is actually a terrible thing to add to my home feed. I can see all the magazines to which I am subscribed in kbin, but I cannot see a feed of the latest content in just those magazines - so that is also not a very attractive (to me) way to see the kbin content. I am not going back to reddit, so I feel much like a man without a country at this point.
Closest would actually not be Twitter but the /comments after a subreddit. There used to be a tab for it, but they've hidden it. It's just basically all comments posted in a sub.
Granted microblog is just all comments in that microblog area but it's the closest thing to it.
Yeah Twitter was probably bad analogy. Fediverse just has so many ways to post, it's hard to make direct comparison to something monolithic like Reddit.
I mean, you weren't wrong. I can post (Tweet) on my Mastodon and if the tags are being followed by a magazine then that post will show up under it's Microblogs section.
Interesting. I have tried this but it doesn't work for me, though it must work somehow since there is one microblog post showing up [from someone else]. I used tags in my mastodon post that are set on my magazine and I don't see it.
It's still limited by the rules of federation. Kbin.social needs to be aware of your post somehow. Easiest way to to that is to have your KBin account follow your Mastodon one.
It's basically the fediverse version of twitter.
Imagine a twitter feed... That's the microblogs.
When the twitter userbase split after Musk brought down the banhammer and fascism, people went to mastodon, a fediverse version of twitter, just like this is a fediverse version of Reddit/forums.
Microblogs are where you'd see mastodon content, for example.
But you can also use them directly without using mastodon too, as they're also a native thing here.
How do you subscribe to magazines?
Same way as on Reddit. By clicking the subscribe button in the sidebar.
Or at the bottom of the page if you’re on mobile.
Followup, how do I see the sidebar on mobile?
Scroll to the bottom of the page.
You can also use the "hamburger" button to the left of the kbin logo when viewing a thread to access all the subscription options.
Yeah the mobile interface needs a little work
If you're on the mobile site, the subscribe button will be at the bottom of the first page of content.
Hey, thank you very much for this!
Is the a way to pin a thread on a magazine? Like making a post an announcement on reddit...
Assuming you own or mod the magazine, Click into the post > more > moderate > pin.
Is there any equivalent of the Reddit Enhancement Suite being developed? I'd love to support their work
Since kbin is so new (kbin.social is about a month old from my understanding) it seems to me it'd be better to work on the main site, instead! Assuming the features you're looking for could be of interest to many users.
Source is on codebergand issues have been submitted with ideas, to questions. Might be a little slow now since there’s a flood of people, but you could search for an open ticket or help with something too.
What's the policy concerning alternate/throwaway accounts?
Looool...
Welcome back to the internet of the turn of the millennium.
Policy? There almost certainly isn't one. This is the internet that isn't controlled by a corporation so I'd assume that it's the same as the old internet from before that happened.
Nobody is likely to be giving a shit here, just like none of us gave a shit before
Basic rules would likely be, don't be a POS and you'll be fine, just like it always was. Nobody's going to care about your alts if they're not being total cunts to everyone.
And yes, this means that I clearly don't know the answer to your question in absolute terms, and yet I'm answering anyway (I know right, fuck me), but having looked around here, I'm seeing a place that's run by normal people, just like the internet was always run before everything got silo'd into vast corporate web platforms. I'm pretty confident that it works the same way.
If so, the policy would be, "do whatever you want, but don't be a shit".