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Dumb Questions From A Noob (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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First of all, I don't even know if this is the place to ask, but I couldn't find anywhere else that made sense...

Second, Kbin looks amazing, definitely the best out of the fediverse, however there are still things I cannot for the life of me find in the UI.

Where can I see a list of the magazines I'm subscribed to? A list, not posts from.
Why do the thumbnails for posts appear distorted? The have incorrect aspect ratio. Is there a way to fix this?
Where can I see a list of local communities?
How is microblogging handled differently from other types of posts? Do they all show up on the home page?

EDIT: #5 I don't seem to get any notifications of any sort, visual or otherwise, that I have received responses to a post or comment. Is this the way it's supposed to be?

I have many more, but any help with those for now would be amazing.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

maybe the thumbnails will get better. kbin is very new still I think, so the site is more barebones atm probably compared to lemmy
What do you mean by community? Like the magazine?
I think microblogging is more like a Tweet, I think kbin is trying to integrate more with Mastodon which basically does tweets.

By the way if you want to add a Thread, which is reddit's "post", then I think you do it by Add a New Article. I was confused cuz there's no Add a new Thread, but I'm guessing you can do it with Add new link, photo, video, or article. Article means a text only thread I think.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Got it, makes sense, I figured as much.
Yes, I mean a list of magazines hosted/birthed on kbin.
I have no experience with Mastodon, but thank you for suggesting "New Article" which is what I did here, seems like the type of post I was looking to make, which is unintuitive because if you click on "Add New Post" it takes you to microblogging, and that's where my question arised.

Thanks again!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

To see more magazines/communities, I click Magazines and then that page has a search bar for magazines (I search for the names of my reddit subreddits) and a list of a lot of them.

I think on redditalternatives, there's also a migration directory to show the corresponding subreddit to community/magazine