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Is there a good discovery tool for kbin magazines like lemmy has? (kbin.social)

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

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I've got a lemmy account elsewhere in the fediverse, and I have found this tool for finding instances and communities: https://lemmyverse.net/

I only just discovered though that it doesn't work with any kbin sites, it just doesn't list them at all. Is there any good way to browse different kbin magazines like this?

Ideally I want to be able to easily search by keyword and by instance. I love that this part of the fediverse is expanding, it just seems to me that it needs a good content discovery method.

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[–] nlm@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

It works for kbin too though? https://lemmyverse.net/kbin/magazines?order=followers

[–] DarkThoughts@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Aside from what's been said about your mentioned tool, the base functionality is https://kbin.social/magazines.

[–] Excrubulent@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Thanks, I am aware that's an option, the only problem with it is if you go looking for magazines on other instances, you can't both browse all magazines and also easily subscribe to them as you go. Using the search tool you get links tailored to your home instance.

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

I'm a little confused what your issue is with the default search? You can just "subscribe" to them, regardless if they're native on kbin.social or another instance.

[–] ryan@the.coolest.zone 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The kbin.social search will only show magazines already federated into kbin.social, and won't show magazines and communities elsewhere in the fediverse that you can subscribe to. You have to find those elsewhere and then bring them into kbin.social (or whichever instance you are a member of) using the search functionality.

[–] DarkThoughts@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Ah, gotcha. Although this is only an issue with very new or very tiny communities / magazines.

[–] GeekFTW@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I only just discovered though that it doesn't work with any kbin sites, it just doesn't list them at all.

It does if you click on the hamburger menu in the top right and click Kbin Magazines lol

Edit: That being said I don't know if there's more than kbin.social on it in terms of kbin since we're the big one.

[–] Rhaedas@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Fedia.io and others do eventually show up if you scroll down a lot, kbin social just dominates the general list. You can use the domain name to quickly weed out kbin.social stuff. Props to the designer for making the filter real time.

Note that it looks to me from experimenting that the filter uses only the side panel and title for keywords, so instances and magazines that don't have a great description of their purpose may not get hits based only on the actual posts.

[–] Excrubulent@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ah. Thank you. I will go and hide in shame now.

The only thing I have to say in my defence is that it's not super obvious that that's there, and at least now the information is available to anyone that comes looking.

It seems to me though that it should just search both by default and not leave kbin as hidden by default. when I searched for instances the fact that no kbin servers came up is what told me maybe they weren't supported.