I’ve been exploring the fediverse and subbing and posting all over the damn place. Realizing lemmy can federate with kbin blew my mind. Not to mention the possibility of turning my old laptop into a personal server to host my own instance. Is this what it felt like to discover how the internet worked in the 90s?
I’m a techy person and I’ve tried to figure out kbin but I can’t lol. I got mastadon and Lemmy. I haven’t really tried more than like 5 minute to get kbin but I couldn’t figure it out in that time and I was able to do Lemmy and mastadon within that time range
The beauty is it doesn’t matter too much. I’m seeing and replying to this from a kbin instance of this post, you see.
Yup! Everyone gets what they prefer
the cool thing is that I can post and enjoy from here on kbin and you can do so from lemmy :)
I honestly prefer the minimalistic (comparatively) UI here than on kbin. and since it’s federating again now, I can enjoy the best of both worlds
Out of curiosity, what couldn’t you figure out? Haven’t tried setting up an account on Lemmy, but I just created an account on Kbin in a minute and was up and running
I couldn’t figure out how to search up communities. When I would use the search feature it would show posts with that term in it. I use mobile so idk if something is hidden to the side or what. There was some screen I kept on getting stuck on also that I don’t remember now
Kbin is kinda a lot tbh, it’s got a bit of a space shuttle control panel thing where the different sections of the ui are modal and you have to remember to configure each one so that you can see e.g. “newest microblogs posted by subscribers to mechanicalpencils”. I figured it out after a few hours of stumbling around seeing content and not being sure how I got there.
Ah yeah–that is confusing here. I think there’s a lot of UI improvements that are sure to come. For some reason there are two searches–a post search and a magazine search. The post search is the one that’s visible on the top bar, and the magazine search is in the magazines tab (that lists all magazines), and in my experience is pretty good. If I search “tech” I get results from all sorts of instances.
All in all there’s a lot of room for improvement, but it’s such a young piece of software that I’m pretty confident it (and lemmy) will improve pretty rapidly in the coming months/years