[Tips] Here are some shortcuts for your old reddit habits

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

https://kbin.social/magazines

Your Inbox

https://kbin.social/settings/notifications

Your home, list of posts in your subs

https://kbin.social/sub

All, all posts from all subs

https://kbin.social/

All, sorted by new (aka "chaos")

https://kbin.social/newest

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.

Meditative,

Is there a way to save threads or save comments within kbin?

mihnt,
@mihnt@kbin.social avatar

For posts you can just upvote them and it will show up on your profile.

Meditative,

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.

necrophagist,

Yeah...I upvote a lot of things, but save really useful stuff ... definitely need a save feature

NumbersCanBeFun,
@NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social avatar

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.

reverendz,

@Meditative

@PabloDiscobar @mihnt

Some Lemmy instances have the ability to Save. Would definitely like to have that!

w2tpmf,

Is the a way to pin a thread on a magazine? Like making a post an announcement on reddit...

Magess,
@Magess@kbin.social avatar

So what is "boost" going to do on a post, if I use that?

FrostTom,
@FrostTom@kbin.social avatar

I believe that’s basically synonymous with a “retweet”

Or at least that’s what I could find

Loki,
@Loki@kbin.social avatar

@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

Magess,
@Magess@kbin.social avatar

That's weird.

Yoscooter,

https://youtube.com/shorts/wx5DO_jceJc?si=lGWBdHW7tPa68Wxu

DarkArchitect,
@DarkArchitect@kbin.social avatar

@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.

Deliverator,
@Deliverator@kbin.social avatar

Is there any equivalent of the Reddit Enhancement Suite being developed? I'd love to support their work

soco,

Anyway to collapse comment tree's?

vizhal007,
@vizhal007@kbin.social avatar

You can do it using an extension on the browser. You can find the thread here

tord,

What's the policy concerning alternate/throwaway accounts?

Rabbithole,

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".

Liontigerwings,

How do you subscribe to magazines?

DarkThoughts,

Same way as on Reddit. By clicking the subscribe button in the sidebar.

Chog,
@Chog@kbin.social avatar

Or at the bottom of the page if you’re on mobile.

Liontigerwings,

Followup, how do I see the sidebar on mobile?

chase,
@chase@kbin.social avatar

Scroll to the bottom of the page.

ANuStart,

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

IniNew,

If you're on the mobile site, the subscribe button will be at the bottom of the first page of content.

major_malarkey,

Wth is this microblog I'm seeing under threads?

0xtero,
@0xtero@kbin.social avatar

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.

Glamposhim,

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.

0xtero,
@0xtero@kbin.social avatar

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.

VerifiablyMrWonka,
@VerifiablyMrWonka@kbin.social avatar

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.

IBNobody,
@IBNobody@kbin.social avatar

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?

0xtero,
@0xtero@kbin.social avatar

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.

IBNobody,
@IBNobody@kbin.social avatar

I get that, yeah, but what confuses me is this...

https://i.imgur.com/AXnjhhU.png

If the magazine I'm in is /m/kbinMeta, how does the Mastodon etc. stuff get be collected in kbinMeta?

Magazine mods can associate hashtags with their magazine and then anything from the fediverse tagged with that ends up showing in that magazines microblog section. This is a great way to bring in a lot of content you can interact with even if it's not in the longform KBin/Lemmy format.

And that now makes sense.

Rabbithole,

Why would you post something to twitter when you can just post it to Reddit?

Same answer.

Rabbithole,

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.

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