Hey thanks for the tip! I also felt like fediverse was being suppressed by google, but wasn't sure whether thats the case or does google just need time to properly index these sites.

Isn't that what the "Federation On | Off" setting basically does?

On your sidebar, next to the settings gear there is the connection-icon and you can turn off federation so that you only see magazines and content only from your local instance.

Lemmy has been running for 4 years (don't know how long they developed it before releasing the first beta), Kbin barely for 2 months. Just putting that out there! Love both though.

I bet it is the same reason that I had: can't follow or unfollow tags from official app (or atleast I haven't found a way to do so, please help).

This is possibly in the works I believe. They are currently discussing about the implementation and what additional things it could bring to the table that would make it work even better (for example somehow integrate the idea with Mastodon hashtags).

The link I provided is old, but there is still active discussion and many more contributors, so we could see this happening soon!

Adding a pic (click to enlarge):

ukraine community over at sopuli is great if you sort by new, just trying to get more traction there in the form of people commenting. Posts for info, comments for fun.

Agree, we also discussed about this here.

Awhile ago we had this awesome thread going on where people could tell us about their favourite magazines (and some were created on the spot):

https://kbin.social/m/AskKbin/t/13198/Hey-keebinetters-and-fediverse-what-are-your-favourite-kbin-fediverse-magazines

The syntax for @ signed magazines seems to be a bit broken, right click the link and press "open in a new tab" to get there, or alternatively use this link: /m/Tardigrades

AFAIK there were trolls commenting and harassing beehaw communities from .world and lemmy (I believe also Kbin) lack proper moderation tools to counter that. Supposedly it's only temporarily blocked until those required tools are implemented.

Yup! Tusky for sure, don't know about the other apps. The official app is great but missing many features still. Give Tusky a go if you decide to try Mastodon again!

Damn that was a quick answer, appreciate it ernest!

@Shortcake @man0fbass I guess you guys should privately message ernest to resolve these issues.
You can private message by going to his account page and click on the "send a message" on the side bar of that page.

It's a slightly different syntax for accessing it from kbin: go to all magazines tab and type ttrpgs@lemmy.blahaj.zone to access the the community.

Edit: on kbin we use the @ character instead of lemmy's ! Exclamation character:

@ ttrpgs @ lemmy.blahaj.zone

And write it all together:

@ttrpgs

I think you are right. I hope this post gets traction so people know that before subjecting themselves to those things.

Some instances of Mastodon have a very large character limit (don't know if there are instances without limits).

Edit: just pointing out, not disagreeing

You could check out Calckey.social which has a limit of 4000 characters I believe. Maybe that is better for personal blog?

Wow okay that's a lot! Might have to migrate my mastodon account there. Thanks for the tip!

Ah sorry I looked at your question again and noticed I misread your question. No idea why that one instance was blocked.

I know that on lemmy admins of an instance can hand over a community on that instance to another person. Wonder if it is the same on kbin?

Yeah I understand, I'm bit hesitant to ping ernest since his hands are absolutely full, but maybe the question OP and you have really could use an answer so that we could do something about this. Hey @ernest , if you see this, is it possible to:

1. Hand down a magazine ownership to another user
2. give ownership of an instance to another user if the original owner has gone MIA?

This hasn't been documented (and I haven't tested), but I'm fairly certain that on user level you can't block your comments and posts from getting federated with other instances. That would be instance-admin level settings.

The federation on/off button should only hide federated content from you, but I'm not sure if it even applies to the stuff that has already been loaded into your feed, as I still see some content from other instances if I turn it off, but could be due to other kbin users who have commented on the thread so you'd only see kbin users comments.

Still waiting for bit more documentation on kbin, but I'm sure a lot of it will change as ernest and other contributors work on the code.

Yup! I'm pretty excited for what's going to happen in the next 2 months! As for the timelines: Could be, there are two threads discussing this. Here is the second one.

Personally I'm up for anything, I'd just like to stop constantly switching between 5 communities that are all the same but on different instances.

Just to answer the "what I've downvoted":

Might be a bug, but when you downvote it appears on your profile in the boost tab. Sadly removing the downbutton does not remove it from the boost section.

You can see that on my profile when I downvoted a bot. Now I have forever a sexting bot on my profile page...

I'm not a pre-migration keebinetter, but wanted to point out that kbin was published as a very early version of itself about a month ago by the user /u/ernest, Might not find many pre-migration keebinetters.

Also lmao love that the "keebinetter" sticked!