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Huh, I don‘t think I subscribed to anything.
I‘m mostly browsing Hot in kbin and it‘s provided me a seemingly endless stream of content which I just commented and voted on the whole day.
Just now I discovered the part where I could even subscribe wayyy at the bottom of the page where I had not ventured before on mobile.
your post inspired me to go looking, so I browsed around 50 pages worth of mags and am now subbed to about 82
I'm on 13 communities in this instance and a few more in Beehaw. I purged my Reddit account over a week ago and didn't keep track of all the subs. But I realized how much clutter I had. So, I'm going to be more selective now.
Also, I've heard kbin a few times. Should I be making an account over there?
Also, I’ve heard kbin a few times. Should I be making an account over there?
Take a look at some of its instances, and if the interface is more appealing to you, pick one (Kbin.social's currently the most popular, but there's also readit.buzz & fedia.io, maybe others unlisted on the main site?) to join.
However, there's no need to unless its interface and functions appeal more to you, as it federates with Lemmy, so you can subscribe to any magazines/communities from there without a separate account.
Looks like I'm currently at 79. I have at least twice that blocked as I try to customize my experience as much as possible.
What is the benefit of blocking communities? Not sure I get it.
I browse all/active on kbin and it just keeps those from popping up when there are newer or popular threads. Like, I'm not interested in furry stuff so I blocked all those so that they don't populate on my feed no matter how I sort it.
Oh I understand. My home instance is a very small one (maybe 30 users) so I am really only concerned with what should subscribe to and not what I should block. It makes sense to need that if you have a big home instance that you can use the all/active feed with.
I might conveniently interject here and say that the "all" search (on Lemmy, at least) will show every community that a user of your home instance has viewed at least once. In other words, it will display content from every community in its cache. Since we're getting more users, the "all" sort is a pretty diverse array of content.
92 'subs' so far.
Sub as a noun is fine. Sub can just mean subscription (to a community) or "at a lower level" so lower than an instance, thus community.
What are kbin magazines. Different than communities? Where
I don't know if you've heard of Kbin in general but it's just another Fediverse platform like Lemmy, and has its own community equivalent called magazines. Users from Lemmy can sub to magazines, and users from Kbin can sub to our communities, so essentially it's all just one big forum with two different ways of viewing content. Some people prefer the Kbin UI, others prefer the Lemmy one.
For most of my interests I've found Lemmy is the more active one, but it just depends on topic. Check out their list of magazines here: https://kbin.social/magazines
To subscribe, you'll need to go through the palaver of searching for the magazine on your home instance same as you do with communities. The difference is instead of !this@syntax, just search for the full URL of the Kbin mag.
I could have this wrong, but I think kbin magazines are the same thing as lemmy communities.
The question that I have is what's the lemmy equivalent of kbin microblogs?