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[Tips] Here are some shortcuts for your old reddit habits (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by PabloDiscobar@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social

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Your list of subs, in a grid make sure you set it to private

https://kbin.social/settings/subscriptions/magazines

The list of all subs, in a column, sorted by subscribers number

https://kbin.social/magazines

Your Inbox

https://kbin.social/settings/notifications

Your home, list of posts in your subs

https://kbin.social/sub

All, all posts from all subs

https://kbin.social/

All, sorted by new (aka "chaos")

https://kbin.social/newest

you can search by tags: https://kbin.social/tag/tech

You can see who upvoted and downvoted your comments in the activity tab of the "more" button.

You can block a domain like you can block a user. Either through the url::

Http://kbin.social//d/nypost.com

Or by clicking the domain name and then click the block button.

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[–] major_malarkey@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wth is this microblog I'm seeing under threads?

[–] 0xtero@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's essentially (in simplified terms) a Mastodon client.
There's really no reddit equivalent, but if you pretend reddit and twitter had the same web interface, you'd get close to that "Threads" and "Microblog" are.

[–] IBNobody@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I understand the concept, but not the purpose. Why would I post something to a microblog when I can post a thread? Or I guess if I was more twitter-savvy, why would I create a thread when I can post something to a microblog?

[–] Rabbithole@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Why would you post something to twitter when you can just post it to Reddit?

Same answer.

[–] 0xtero@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Maybe you wouldn't. But this being the fediverse I can follow all the communities/magazines from other services, like Mastodon, Pixelfeed or Peertube (fediverse equivalents for Twitter, Instagram and Youtube). I can post to these communities/magazines from those apps as well. Those posts will end up as Microblogs.

[–] Glamposhim@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Closest would actually not be Twitter but the /comments after a subreddit. There used to be a tab for it, but they've hidden it. It's just basically all comments posted in a sub.

Granted microblog is just all comments in that microblog area but it's the closest thing to it.

[–] 0xtero@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah Twitter was probably bad analogy. Fediverse just has so many ways to post, it's hard to make direct comparison to something monolithic like Reddit.

[–] VerifiablyMrWonka@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I mean, you weren't wrong. I can post (Tweet) on my Mastodon and if the tags are being followed by a magazine then that post will show up under it's Microblogs section.

[–] Rabbithole@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's basically the fediverse version of twitter.

Imagine a twitter feed... That's the microblogs.

When the twitter userbase split after Musk brought down the banhammer and fascism, people went to mastodon, a fediverse version of twitter, just like this is a fediverse version of Reddit/forums.

Microblogs are where you'd see mastodon content, for example.

But you can also use them directly without using mastodon too, as they're also a native thing here.