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?

  • tc@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    So basically you can use kbin as a Mastodon alternative, following people, tags and post microblogs without it being magazines only?

      • Nepenthe@kbin.social
        3·
        1 year ago

        @tc

        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.