Hey Kbin-folk, I’ve recently published my take on the “threadiverse” in the form of a quasi-guide but with some other commentary. Appreciate any feedback, good or bad!

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    1 year ago

    Good explanations in your article! In case you may not already know there’s a kbin app (later to work with lemmy as well) called Artemis in the works as well.

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    1 year ago

    As someone who is just now looking for Reddit alternatives due to the impending death of RIF, this is a very helpful breakdown.

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    1 year ago

    I really Lemmy and Kbin. Both provide solid desktop experiences and app development is only accelerating.

    One thing in particular I am having a hard time with is discovering communities. I know there are a couple websites dedicated to this but discovery on both Lemmy and Kbin is not very easy. This becomes compounded by the fact that some communities have fractured across numerous communities or magazines. Referencing different communities/magazines is also was more annoying than doing /r/dancing or whatever.

    Is there a solution to these problems?

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      I haven’t had a problem ftmp. I sort by all>new/top day/hot/active and subscribe to what interests me on a whim.

      Then if there is something specific, say poetry, I type “poetry” or “poet” in to the search and I get all the communities with that in the name. Subscribe. All of em.

      Over time I naturally have a feed of my own making.

      But right now, I am just sorting all and collecting communities and talking to people, and when finally there is more people, I will sort by subscribed.

      I think the issue is just early stage social media being built ground up, and we’re all still figuring out what this place is even gonna be.

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        This is what I am doing too and think it is the way to go.

        You wouldn’t catch me dead sorting by r/all on Reddit, but I have been doing so on kbin to just see what is out there and subbing to what is interesting. I also have been searching for various magazines/communities and subbing to a bunch of them since I don’t know which one will take off. Eventually I have hope i’ll have an active enough feed like I did on my homepage on Reddit, but I’m cool waiting it out and just seeing what sticks on the fediverse.

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      The search in Memmy is pretty intuitive imo. You type in a keyword of something you’re interested in and it will surface communities and posts with that keyword. This functionality isn’t as good natively in Kbin from what I can tell, but you get a similar view by searching natively in Lemmy. That and the sub.rehab, redditmigration sites are pretty good too.

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      Give it time. People are obviously gonna want to talk about how bad the place they just left is in the short term; it’ll die off as time goes on, flaring up occasionally when Reddit makes another blunder.

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        1 year ago

        Yup, the same thing happened when we moved from Digg to reddit.
        There were 2-3 weeks where the death of digg was every other thread but then it tapered off quickly.

        That being said, I think this whole reddit fiasco will drag out longer.

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      Hah! I know right?! Too bad I couldn’t get this out sooner. Then again, what do you expect to pop up in the “RedditMigration” community than posts about Reddit and migrating from it! =). I’d say mute this community for a bit until things cool off.

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      1 year ago

      Absolutely! If they surface other questions not answered in the post let me know. I’d love to address those and keep it updated.

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    1 year ago

    That is a fantastic write up my man. I have only been on lemmy for three weeks, and have learned a lot. That is a great higher level understanding of things for people to easily understand.

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    1 year ago

    In another discussion someone mentioned the “wefwef” Apollo-inspired Lemmy client. I haven’t looked into it myself, but apparently some users like it, so maybe consider adding it to your list?

    [Later Edit: — I see that the list has been updated, and wefwef has been added.]

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      I’m writing this comment from it. It’s still a WIP but the interface, infinite scroll, animations and swiping controls are all amazing.

      Definitely my favorite Lemmy app so far.

  • D-ISS-O-CIA-TED@kbin.social
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    Will the mobile apps listed work for kbin? I want to go with official apps because I’m very afraid of downloading some malicious or predatory software from unofficial parties

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      I haven’t tried all the apps but have used mlem and memmy and they work well and appear to be legit.

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    Great info. I think where you first define Lemmy you should also mention that its in the fediverse, like you did for kbin. This would make it more obvious that they’re essentially just different front-ends to the same content.