Well, it’s different meanings of “posting to your profile”. I get it you’re using the technical/backend/AP meaning of the post being posted to the user’s account and then the community just announces it iirc. At least that’s how it works on Lemmy, never looked into how Mbin does this exactly, iirc there’s differences to how Lemmy and Mbin communities look from Mastodon.

But in this thread’s context, it means that you make a post, and it’s only visible on your profile, nowhere else. Not in any magazine. New Reddit has this feature, where you can choose to make a post to /u/username instead of any specific subreddit, and then the post is only visible on your user page.

It’s unclear what exact meaning the person I replied to meant, but it’s definitely not the technical one, considering their wording. So with “Mbin doesn’t actually support posting things to your profile yet” I meant it in the context established by OP.

Mbin doesn’t actually support posting things to your profile yet. Microblog posts still need to be posted to a particular community. They do plan to stop with that eventually and allow you to post outside of communities (recently mentioned on their Matrix), but that’s not a thing yet.

Cool map.

Though, Switzerland doesn’t have a capital.

Oh right, I didn’t realize shreddit is an actual thing. It’s what I call sh.reddit.com, yeah.

By mods, not by Reddit. Otherwise /r/redditalternatives wouldn’t be filled with Lemmy mentions.

Reddit didn’t remove it, the moderators did. On Shreddit, there’s a note:

Sorry, this post has been removed by the moderators of r/YouShouldKnow.

It’s still available on your profile, I can still see it there. So clearly Reddit didn’t do shit.

Edit: While I’m looking at shreddit, looking at the rules in the sidebar, I think it was removed due to rule 3:

YSKs regarding Reddit, Facebook, Twitter or any other social media are NOT ALLOWED.

You should always look at a community’s rules first before posting, imo this removal is justified.

Some communities I’m interested in aren’t on the fediverse, or I get more out of following it on both sites, or I like their custom CSS faaaaaar more than the Mbin design.

They are changing this as part of getting rid of PMs:

• Old Reddit will receive small UI updates to allow users to access all information previously provided via PMs
• New button to access the notifications inbox, which will badge if notifications are received
• Chat button will badge if new chats are received
• The PM UI on Old Reddit will be discontinued within the same timeframe from other platforms once the migration has been completed.

I personally disabled voting. Can’t get banned for upvoting “violence” if I don’t upvote anything in the first place.

No one gets banned from Reddit for promoting Lemmy, it’s just some subreddits (like /r/technology) which are overzealous. But not the site as a whole.

The link seems broken somehow on kbin.earth (don’t know if Mbin in general), so for anyone having the same issue, here’s the actual link taken from Lemmy.

Also for context for Lemmy users reading this, this is the link I see: https://old.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/1jf1dy5/https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/1jf1bxy/private_messages_will_be_replaced_with_reddit//

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It’s a lot better nowadays than Google, so I do, yeah.

The website doesn’t work for me, the request times out.

Another interesting discovery: Compare the two links for each of the accounts marked with (*). You will notice that the posts on moist.catsweat.com link to YouTube, but when viewing the posts from lemmy.world those same posts link to the blogspot. Why is that?

Yeah, I think this is the real problem. It’s Youtube on the home instance, it’s not marked as edited (and even if it was, url changes are federated to Lemmy), and it federates as Youtube only (checked the AP response).
Where is Lemmy getting the blogspot from in the first place?

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Oh, I wasn’t aware it got updated to support Mbin. Last time I checked it still only showed Kbin’s zero instances (and wasn’t it instances rather than magazines?)

Still, it’s a shame they’re hidden in a menu. Imo ideal would be if all the communities were in the same feed, regardless of which software they run on. It’s about discovery after all.

For context for the people downvoting this: Lemmy doesn’t have karma, but Mbin does and it shows karma for Lemmy accounts too.

They can, but they might have trouble discovering it. Other instances won’t become aware of your magazine until one of their users searches for it explicitly, and even then posts won’t be federated until someone subscribes. So you’ve got some advertisement to do.

This is a general problem though which Lemmy suffers from too. Lemmy has this problem less because there’s third-party websites which list all Lemmy communities and you can browse them there. But those don’t support Mbin magazines from what I’ve seen. (edit: seems like Mbin support was added since I last checked)

One way to overcome this problem that I know of is Lemmy Federate. As I understand it, it tries to subscribe to your magazine from various instances (including big ones) using its own account, so it starts getting federated there.

I’ve tried that many different types of unicode formatting and still had posts removed.

Because mods aren’t stupid, they can see the unicode. Only automod is tricked by that, and they’re not the only mod actually looking at the subreddit they moderate. Any human reviewer can see through this.

Fellow Mbin user here.

When I go and press edit on a text-only thread of mine, I get the following fields in order:

1. URL (empty)
2. Title
3. (unlabaled) the post body, the main text of the post
4. (unlabeled and grayed out) the magazine it’s posted to
5. Tags

Your links show up in the post body, but the mod wants you to paste the original article URL into the URL field instead. If you’re using another language than English, it might be named differently.

Alternatively, when making a post, you can decide between creating a “link”, a “thread”, a “photo” or a “post” (exact wording might differ between languages and instances). This is currently a thread, but they want you to pick the link option instead. But like I said, editing should include the ability to fill in a link without having to recreate the post as a link post.