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There needs to be a step by step migration guide

It was and still is hard - or at least tedious - for me as a software developer to find out how to use the fediverse and lemmy. I can’t imagine how annoying it must be for a normal user. The one thing I really liked about reddit, is that you can find a well written guide for everything, often pinned at the top of a specific...

Akilou,

I don't even think I'm on Lemmy. I'm on kbin. Maybe I'm on Lemmy too? None of it makes any sense.

Friend, to quickstart
@Friend@kbin.social avatar

How to add a community from the Fediverse if it does not appear when you search for it in kbin:

Select the site search option (magnifying glass icon at the top), and search for the community using communityname@domain format.

It will then be available via the standard magazine search function for you and any future users.

Akilou,

Having trouble subscribing to this magazine in particular https://fedia.io/m/firefox or any one that's on another domain

Akilou,

@Friend I got it to work. But I will say that this is never going to catch on because it's way too complicated and unintuitive.

Akilou,

Do you mind if I list some of the questions that I've had and still have and you could incorporate the answers into this post? No need to answer them one by one, but you may see a commonality that may resolve a few of these questions in one go with a simple explanation.

  • What is kbin? How is it different than Lemmy? How is it the same? Why do I always see them mentioned together?
  • kbin vocabulary: What is a magazine? What is a thread? What is a comment? What is a microblog?
  • What is a boost? How is it different from an upvote?
  • Is there a mobile app?
  • What is a "federated server"? What is an "instance"?
  • What's all this about "federation" and being able to see content from elsewhere? Where is elsewhere?
  • On this site (for example), what does it mean when I see feddit.de, squabbles,io, or readit.buzz?
  • Do I need an account on all of the websites mentioned above? If not, how do I see content from the others on my kbin homepage?
  • what is the relationship between /news on one site and /news on another?
  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • random
  • uselessserver093
  • Food
  • aaaaaaacccccccce
  • test
  • CafeMeta
  • testmag
  • MUD
  • RhythmGameZone
  • RSS
  • dabs
  • KamenRider
  • Ask_kbincafe
  • TheResearchGuardian
  • KbinCafe
  • Socialism
  • oklahoma
  • SuperSentai
  • feritale
  • All magazines