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There's a Fediverse alternative to called . More info at kbin.pub

Still VERY new, not many servers yet, two so far in English:

fedia.io
kbin.social

No app yet, use it through these sites. Subreddits are called "Magazines". You can interact with magazines from other servers.

Coders help Kbin at codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core, non-coders donate at buymeacoffee.com/kbin

(Sorry to people bored of this, had many requests to put info in one place)

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@feditips
Still trying to figure this shit out. How do things like #kbin or #lemmy or #feddit interact with my brand new account here?

In my dream world, I would subscribe to such a "Magazin" and get it posted on my home feed. And to discover new stuff, I could simply search for a keyword and get a fitting magazine or community recommended.

@mitha

Yes, that's exactly how it will work, see the screenshot below. Magazines will appear as groups if you follow them within Mastodon, with posts looking just like Mastodon posts.

At the moment there is just too much traffic overwhelming the Kbin servers, which weren't expecting this amount of attention due to the Reddit implosion.

Once things calm down and the developers are able to get more development done, it should work the way you are suggesting.

@feditips

Thanks for the reply. Gotta give this some days and some earnest attention.
Reddit was, for a lot of stuff, a really nice user experience. Lots of subs where the primary point of contact for their respective communities. If we could get these communities away from spez and his cronies, I'd be delighted.

@mitha Following a magazine or a user is as easy, as @feditips describes. Just remember the pattern @userOrMagazineName@server.tld

Search by keyword does not work well, since your server can only search instances, it knows about (obviously).

@till @feditips

< Search by keyword does not work well, since your server can only search instances, it knows about (obviously).

Yeah that's part I'm currently struggling with. Let's say I want to search for stuff related to one piece. On reddit this is simply joining /r/onepiece as a starting point. I have yet to find a good way to start this here...

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@mitha @till

Things work a bit differently on here, partly for safety reasons.

I'd recommend searching for all the hashtags you want and following them. This will automatically show posts with those tags in your home timeline, even from people you don't follow:

fedi.tips/how-do-i-follow-hash

There's also another feature called Groups where you follow a group account, and you will automatically see anything posted to that group:

fedi.tips/how-to-use-groups-on

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