I’m sure many new users are curious.

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    This whole system is a lot newer than most services you’ve used on the Internet. It’s under constant change. Expect it to look different next week, month, or year.

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      Agreed. The systems are being flooded from the migration. Communities are quickly being formed. A little patience and people rolling up their sleeves to make it better go a long way.

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    Don’t forget to hit the CTRL button when clicking on any external links so they open in a new tab. Basically pretend it’s 2012 again.

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    There isn’t explicitly a profit motive on here (unlike almost every other big social media site).

    So you can do away with the clickbait-y, karma or like farming…

    We don’t do that here.

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    Join a kbin instance and also join a Lemmy instance. Neither one is very stable yet (kbin has only been out a couple months) so I suggest using kbin until it starts having issues then switching to Lemmy for a while.

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      Aren’t they cross compatible? I’m still fuzzy on the differences. Also lemmy instances were getting hammered, (as it looks like the kbin are too now), so thus my choice of kbin.

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        Normally, yes! You can browse and interact with lemmy communities from kbin and vice versa with absolutely no problems.

        However, since both are still so new, it’s common for one or both to crash. And if your home interface is down, you won’t be able to vote or comment anywhere until it comes back online-- even on other instances which are still up. So if you’re an impatient person (like me, lol), it makes sense to make an account on each, so if one crashes you can switch to the other.

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    Set your language preference to undecided and English so all posts display correctly. I kept seeing communities with “no posts” till I did this

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    You can find all those bad people who got banned on reddit here and they have to be banned again :D

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    • Until we have migration tools, think of your account as disposable
    • Never upload anything you don’t want the world to see, no matter how private something claims to be
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        In the mastodon/Calckey world you can migrate your account on one instance to a new account on a new instance and all the people following you will transfer and automatically follow your new account. So you don’t have to be all “Hey moving to [xyz new instance] follow me there!”

        That’s something that’s in the works for kbin and Lemmy some day

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          I’m curious if that works with unfederated servers or servers that simple just get shutdown. Ie xyz government decides to raid the servers, (is there redundancy in the data?)

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    @npastaSyn Thanks to ActivityPub you can use Lemmy/Kbin and other fediverse social networks without the need of making a new account in them.

    Right now I’m writing this from Mastodon.
    If I were about making an account probably I’ll go to lemmy.ca people over there seem extra chill.

    Like adding extra Lemmy to an order of Lemmy.

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      Please tell me how I can follow a magazine / community in Mastodon. I tried to do it but would only see a random comment, not the OP of a post or any of the other comments. When I would click on the comment it would take me directly to Kbin or Lemmy. (Which is fine, since I’m mainly on Kbin for the message board feel and on Mastodon for the miceoblog experience.)

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        Are you talking about subscribing to a magazine? I do it on mobile by clicking the magazine I want, clicking the top left square button modal with the 3 lines, then scroll down until you see the magazine name to click Subscribe

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      Yes of course. In the web app there’s a little star icon you can click and on jebora theres a little badge next to the vote buttons

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      Yes you click the star to save post and comments and it’s in the more button next to the reply button if you don’t see it.

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      At least on my instance, you can click the three dots under the post to open up some expanded options, then click the star to save the post.

      On Jerboa, there should be a little bookmark icon under each post.

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        Oh hey, the star is there for me too. As an old, I sometimes have issues recognizing all the diverse pictograms that modern tech design uses. Many of them are not intuitive, or are not standardized enough to assume any meaning without prior experience. In this case they’re also really tiny on a phone screen.

        Thanks for the tip.