I found the FAQ but it doesn’t really explain much. I’m looking for a very basic guide here, like what are badges and what are boosts etc.?

Also I see that I can view a list of all the magazines for this instance, but is there a way I can view the magazines for other instances? For example I see a lot of posts from lemmy.world showing up on my homepage but outside of clicking into those posts I don’t know how to see what magazines lemmy.world offers.

Thanks in advance for any replies.

  • GeekFTW@kbin.social
    3·
    1 year ago

    Don’t have a direct link to a guide, but:
    Badges - Ignore for the moment, iirc they are being worked on but don’t do much atm.

    Boosts - Think a retweet on Twitter. Kbin has connectivity with Mastodon (the Microblog section you see at the top of every magazine). Also works on threads as kind of a super-upvote.

    As for the last question: https://lemmyverse.net

    • Gramba@kbin.socialOP
      3·
      1 year ago

      Thanks for the quick response!

      So my workflow to find and subscribe to magazines on other instances is browse the other instance sites and find a magazine I like, but then since I’m not logged in there, load it in kbin by typing the url https://kbin.social/m/[email protected] and click subscribe? I don’t mind if that’s the case but I figured there might be an easier way to browse the federated instances.

      • GeekFTW@kbin.social
        2·
        1 year ago

        Wanna make sure i cover all the bases:

        In terms of subbing: What you describe we’ll call method 1. For 2 you can plug “[email protected]” into the search on https://kbin.social/magazines which’ll bring up a subscription button (though same amount of effort lol), and lastly from the URL I gave you for lemmyverse, if you click the house icon in the top right, you can flip the switch to kbin and type in kbin.social into it for your home instance and any magazine/community you come across on that site will have a url correctly formatted to kbin.social so you can click on it (and then click subscribe, as before lol).

        In terms of straight up finding magazines and instances in the first place, that website will probably be your best bet if you wanna find specific things (like should you wanna look for every gaming related community for example) outside of the aforementioned magazine search page here on kbin, couldn’t tell you if one is more accurate or not however lol.

        In terms of actually browsing the instances, viewing their content, etc - Same as Reddit. Visit said url (like kbin.social/m/gaming for our gaming community, kbin.social/m/[email protected] for lemmy.world’s gaming community, etc). If you’re on one of our magazines, the end, you’re good. If you’re on one of theirs (that you’re viewing while logged in here on kbin.social), you should see everything that occurs, and communicate with people, nearly instantaneously when everything is working perfect, but if something breaks, or federation is slow, you could have some messages/threads/etc not cross over right away, but that’s not happening as often as it was a month or so ago.