I’m sure many new users are curious.
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.
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.
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.
Just wait until things grow. Those people will come once there is an audience to extract money from.
On that note, upvotes and downvotes upvote matter even less here (“here” meaning kbin) as the factor dictating comment order in the “hot” ranking is boosting (think retweet equivalent), not the vote count.
Not sure how that goes on Lemmy though.
Wait so when I boost a comment it appears on my feed or something? I am a bit confused
As far as kbin is concerned, it will appear under the “boosted” category. Some platforms handle this differently. To take a random user as an example, this fosstodon user has a bunch of posts which will show up separately from their boosts when viewed from kbin. But looking at their profile from Fosstodon itself, you will see posts and boosts mixed together as is the norm on Mastodon.
How are they able to post from their mastadon account? Do you link your mastadon account to kbin somehow?
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.
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.
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.
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.
https://kilioa.org/m/[email protected]/t/266
Good information here.
- 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?)
Filter by New so you don’t see the same few posts every time to open Lemmy.
Question: is there a way to save posts or comments?
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
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.
if you’re asking for kbin, I think there is no way at the moment, but I’m sure the developers will add it soon. kbin is a newer aggregator compared to lemmy
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.
Can somebody ELI5 the difference between kbin and lemmy. I think I understand lemmy being like mastadon. Who is hosting kbin?
I’m 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 let’s 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 “federated” 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 don’t display that well on a microblog and vice versa.
There’s some more technical and cultural differences as well but I think that’s the biggest difference in function.
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
@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
