Are there any communities you’ve not yet seen on kbin that you used to visit on Reddit?

Edit: So a lot of people don’t know this, you can search for magazines on kbin here - https://kbin.social/magazines

  • RedditExodus@kbin.social
    11·
    1 year ago

    I think the biggest problem I have is that the magazines exist but have little to no activity.

    I and a few other posted in /m/motorcycles but I don’t think there’s been any activity since.

    • 000@kbin.socialOP
      4·
      1 year ago

      Yeah very true, I think the main reason for this is the ratio of lurkers to contributors has always been so high. So until mags start getting more subscribers things might stay that way.

      Although, I’ve found there was no InternetIsBeautiful mag so I went ahead and made it and have started to post on it when I can, attempting to drive some traffic to it and start some discussions at the very least.

      I think we’ll need to be the change we want to see and just start posting and commenting as much as possible!

    • MentalEdge
      3·
      1 year ago

      Discoverability is lacking atm. But I’m linking people to subs they seem to be looking for, and helping find the places people are looking for will eventually lead to better and better engagement.

      Certain magazines/communities are already very active, and finding good threads, if not specific ones, hasn’t been hard.

      But a lot of them have only just been started, so even with the users on, they havent been found and subbed to, yet.

      • RedditExodus@kbin.social
        2·
        1 year ago

        Interesting, that community doesn’t show anything when I browse to it from kbin.

        What I’m doing is clicking the magazines button at the top of the kbin page and searching for motorcycles. I see kbin.social/m/motorcycles which is where I’ve posted and commented. At the end of the search list I see the lemmy.world/c/motorcycles community, but it shows no activity and only 1 subscriber. When I click on it, I get a message saying “The magazine from the federated server may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.”

        When I click the link to browse more, it takes me to the actual lemmy.world page where there is a bit of content and I can see that there are roughly 250 subscribers.

        Maybe I’m not understanding how federation works, because I was under the impression that I was supposed to be able to interact with communities from lemmy.world (or other federated instances) from within kbin.social. I must be missing something and I consider myself somewhat technical so I imagine this is extra confusing for someone non-technical.

        • 000@kbin.socialOP
          3·
          1 year ago

          Things have been hit and miss for the last day or so in terms of viewing other communities on other instances. You may find that in a few hours it’s showing posts when browsing from kbin, I’m seeing other ones that were empty now starting to show posts and comments.

          • RedditExodus@kbin.social
            2·
            1 year ago

            Maybe there are issues with the data being synced back and forth not happening as expected and what I’m observing is unintended behavior.

            • 000@kbin.socialOP
              3·
              1 year ago

              I’m quite new to all of this so don’t take my word as gospel but I agree with you. Earnest, the ‘admin’ of this instance has said he’s working on getting the stability of kbin taken care of so it’s only going to get better as time passes.

              It’s having an explosion of new users, magazine creation and general activity so it’s probably going to take some time to catch up and upgrade accordingly.

      • Televise@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        I would prefer if you use the format of @motorcycles@lemmy.world. I wish there was a way to do links like that universally

        • michikade@lemmy.world
          3·
          1 year ago

          Sorry, I’m very new to Lemmy and I was also posting from a mobile app so I just pulled the community. I’m not fully versed on the difference between how kbin communities name their short name versus Lemmy and I was pretty sure the ! didn’t work but I didn’t know it was @

          I’ll store that away for the next time.