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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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  1. 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?

  2. What exactly is the difference between the upvote (and downvote) button and boost? Is boost just upvote but moreso?

  3. Is there a "save" function like reddit had, where you can bookmark posts to your profile?

  4. Is there an android app(s) for kbin?

  5. What are tags and badges? I just left them blank for this post.

  6. Is there anything else that I'm not asking that I should know?

  7. 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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[โ€“] Alue42@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm a new user, too. Came over as soon as I saw r/kbinmigration was banned because I figured that must mean it's a big deal.

I had the same questions as you for 2 and 3. For 7: there's a FAQ? Where? That's probably helpful. Maybe.

But also, I figured out what a magazine is, but what's the difference between a thread, a post, and a microblog?

[โ€“] themadcodger@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Posts are the top level, so "New user with a few questions I guess". We're in a thread right now by me responding to your comment. And microblogs are where it pulls in relevant hashtags from the rest of the fediverse outside of kbin/Lemmy that you can comment on from here in kbin. Each magazine owner sets the hashtags it follows.