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New user with a few questions I guess? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by jmorlin@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social

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Still trying to wrap my head around exactly how the fediverse works. I understand it is decentralized. Are kbin and lemmy somehow intermingled? Meaning am I able to view lemmy content here on kbin and interact with it without having to create an account on beehaw or whatever?
What exactly is the difference between the upvote (and downvote) button and boost? Is boost just upvote but moreso?
Is there a "save" function like reddit had, where you can bookmark posts to your profile?
Is there an android app(s) for kbin?
What are tags and badges? I just left them blank for this post.
Is there anything else that I'm not asking that I should know?
Are the answers to any of this in the FAQ and am I fucking up by not reading it?

Thanks all.

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[–] speck@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you speak to why/how content from will (or won't) show up here on kbin?

[–] Xylia@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

From what I’ve gathered, you can search and results from Lemmy instances will show up in the Kbin search.

You can also use a url scheme. For example, to connect to the steamdeck community at Lemmy.ml through Kbin, you can go to http://kbin.social/m/steamdeck@lemmy.ml

The UX isn’t perfect. I’d like more clear differentiation between communities and a better search/discovery for content within the fediverse.

EDIT: I found a comment from the admin explaining how to search for communities from specific instances

https://kbin.social/m/fediverse@lemmy.ml/t/9993/Difference-between-kbin-and-lemmy#entry-comment-42149

[–] Lohrun@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So I understand that to get content indexed from an instance someone has to search for that instance in a particular way.

I’m having the same problem I did on Reddit though. How am I supposed to find communities that I want to subscribe to? If they aren’t indexed then they won’t show up in all and I won’t have a clue to search for them to get them indexed. If they are indexed I might see them in all and can subscribe… for the most part though finding communities I’m interested in feels like random chance.

Like I said, I had the same issue finding subs on Reddit. It was a little easier with Reddit because of Google indexing posts and comments but I don’t know how much indexing Google is doing of fediverse stuff because everything is distributed.

[–] loreasaurus@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

That’s the issue I’m currently running into as well. Along with a lot of my communities probably not switching over because they’re very non-technical, haha.