If you check the sidebar settings you can see a list of stuff that you can toggle with kbin enhancement script. Things such as showing the host instance for a user/magazine, moving the comment box to the top of comments, letting you collapse comment threads, showing the OP in a thread, etc. it does a lot of the things I felt kbin was lacking.
Otome-chan
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It's a religious belief like any other. Unless you have a habit of antagonizing friends/family over their religious beliefs, it's best to just drop it, or talk to them about why they believe it and actually take an interest in their beliefs, rather than just assuming you're right and pushing your beliefs onto others.
On kbin, everything is sorted by magazine. users don't have a personal "microblog", every time you make a microblog post here on kbin you're forced to pick a magazine (you can pick /m/random if you don't want to pick).
Like, I can't understand a use case where it wouldn't be preferable to just use articles.
That's because you're looking at it from the kbin perspective. You need to understand that the microblog posts came first, and are there because of platforms like mastodon that work to recreate the twitter style experience where you follow users and see their posts, and posts aren't sorted per "subreddit" or "topic" but rather by user, and searchable with hashtags.
Lemmy then came along and created this threadded reddit-style interface, forcing every post into a "community". These are basically the exact same thing as the older microblog posts, but with an added community to categorize it.
Kbin came out after that, adding support for lemmy-style threads, and mastodon-style microblog posts. To handle mastodon stuff, each one is automatically assigned a magazine to help categorize it into the familiar magazine/community setup; even though they aren't sorted like that to mastodon users.
As kbin users we can choose whether we want to create a thread or to create a microblog posts. They have a difference nuance to them. Threads have this expectation of being a part of a magazine/community, like a subreddit, with the expectation that people in that group will see it. microblogs have the expectation that only the people following the person who posted it will see it, not everyone subscribed to a particular topic. this means microblog posts are often a lot more personal, more informal, less "professional", and not directed at a community.
If you create threads like you'd use reddit, and microblog posts like you'd use twitter, then you've got the right gist I think.
Do Twitter or Mastodon have some analogous feature where one can have a named microblog independent of one's personal microblog?
No. To mastodon users they don't see our magazines at all, whatsoever. They just see it as if someone tweeted out the thing without any actual categorization.
@ike according to ernest it stems from /sbin. though one of the early instances was named karabin based on the karabine gun and thus shortened to kbin (or rather expanded from kbin).
I also made a thread for some kbin userscripts/extensions to make things a bit easier. see here.
notably I highly suggest kbin enhancement script which adds a lot of usability and quality of life features.
The microblog section is essentially just "twitter"-style posts pulled into a magazine. users on other platforms don't necessarily see our magazines. Magazines on kbin can manually select hashtags to pull in. Alternatively you can just check the /m/random microblog to see unsorted/uncategorized microblog posts.
I think we're at the point that we need to stop thinking of things as "ex-redditors" and now as "kbinauts". While it's true that many people have come here from reddit, it's not "people from reddit", it's "people on kbin".
One thing I've noticed about the fediverse is that different instances have different 'feels' to them, and I think kbin is uniquely positioned to emphasize this a bit, since kbin differentiates itself almost ironically as "not a lemmy instance". It pops up in so many threads of lemmy users discussing things, and then the random "oh this is a kbin thing".
In sharing communities, it's common to have a "for kbin users" link.
I see quite a few lemmy users differentiating themselves "as lemmy" as well. It's an interesting phenomenon.
ultimately I think you're right though. the sooner a proper culture can take root, and a particular "way of doing things" is cemented, the more likely it is that kbin will stick around.
that's because kbin is hardly a month old and still a wip. unfortunately that means to get something up is gonna be more technical.
I'd say the Tsuki Project (Systemspace) and the Saturn black cube stuff are really interesting. Tsuki project was this sort of cyberpunk neo-religious cult that prompted some members to suicide. The Saturn black cube stuff is an alt look on occultism and modern symbolism relating to the worship of the roman deity saturn. Both are very interesting to dive into.
Related to this, some keywords to search up: Tartary, Tartaria, Mud flood, stolenhistory.
Right. so while the majority of users may struggle due to the technical nature, the reality is that currently there appears to be 75 different kbin instances. meaning if this (1) instance has problems, you can simply move to one of the other 74 instances and keep using kbin as normal. Even if ernest decided to 100% shut down kbin.social, those other instances still exist and he can't touch them.