Whenever I post something to kbin it just shows up under the microblogging section of that magazine It doesn’t show up as a thread.
Is this even possible from mastodon?
“Add new post” basically posts a microblog to federated microblogging sites like mastodon from Kbin using your Kbin account. These are presented under the microblog category of the magazine you posted in. “Add new thread”, formerly “Add new article” is what gets your post under the threads category.
If an owner of a magazine adds tags to their magazine, the microblog section of that magazine starts aggregating microblog posts from across the fediverse that use those tags.
If you are trying to post a Kbin magazine “thread” from mastodon, I don’t think that’s possible, as mastodon is exclusively a microblogging site. Adding a tag to your post that’s included in a Kbin magazine should get your post to appear in its microblog section, though. Maybe mentioning it as well, I’m not sure.
If you want a Kbin magazine thread to appear as a microblog post on mastodon, I’m not sure that’s possible. I’ve never tried it. Maybe adding a tag could do something, but I doubt it.
Not sure if this helps at all, but good luck.
So basically you can use kbin as a Mastodon alternative, following people, tags and post microblogs without it being magazines only?
Yes. And as far as I’m aware, Lemmy lacks this capability altogether.
Lemmy lacks the ability, yeah. For now, anyway. Kbin seems to have a bright future as a useful go-between for mastodon and forum users, but it still needs some work atm.
• kbin can search for tags and aggregate them in the relevant magazines, but it doesn’t currently seem to have a way for users to follow tags yet.
• You can follow other users just fine, but as far as I know, kbin shows their posts in the Subscription feed alongside every forum post under god, so I’m having trouble catching things that they blog unless I go deliberately to their profile.
• Which is also what I’m stuck doing if I want to boost/reply to a specific microblog. I have to search the user if I’m not following them, skim their timeline, and hope it’s even federated. It isn’t always, and then I’m SOL.
So all of that cripples its usefulness a bit for me. I’m still pretty happy to have it, but I can’t wait to see it improve.
