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I'm new to Kbin, and I can't find where to browse communities (whether located on Kbin or, more usefully, across the Fediverse). (kbin.social)

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

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I'm new to Kbin, and I can't find where to browse communities (whether located on Kbin or, more usefully, across the Fediverse).

I also joined a Lemmy instance, and there it is straightforward:
https://feddit.uk/communities/listing_type/All/page/1

That link lets me scroll through all the communities, or search.

I do see the magnifying glass, so I can search for communities. But I don't see a way to browse communities.

I like other things about the Kbin layout and feel, so I'd like to try to stay here. But so far it doesn't seem easy to browse the Fediverse communities here.

(Also, I was trying to add a POST, but I don't know how to do that. Just switched me over to MICROBLOG. This is not very straightforward.)

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[–] mintyytea@lemmy.studio 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yeah their terminology is confusing, and who knows, maybe someday they'll change it. I learned what they are, so now I get it more and can help you.

As the other commenter said, communities/subreddits are called "magazines" and you can click Magazines, then there's a search bar specifically for the magazines. On kbin.social, a large server, you'll be able to search for both lemmy and kbin forums there. I also click All for my feed since that seems to give me posts to look at more often

To make a new post, kbin calls that a Thread. "Post" on kbin is actually more like a tweet(twitter)/toot(mastodon). To make a thread, click Add a new article , or Add a new link/video/photo

I saved this post on Lemmy, which is a nice tutorial for kbin: https://lemmy.studio/post/46403

[–] kriss0706@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@mintyytea As someone that's relatively new to this platform. Would you happen to know what the next to the reply button means? Would it be the same as awards on reddit?

@GoodKingElliot

[–] sheawoodrow@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Do you mean the boost? It's like a retweet. It's mostly for cross site functionality with Mastodon.