• 1019throw@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I’m struggling to find content. I saw some news about a sports team I follow, Xbox game, or show I’m watching- I would typically go to reddit, easily find a sub, and all of the content and comments I want. Now when I look on kbin or lemmy or beehaw ( I don’t even know the difference), I could be in an instance? where there is isn’t Xbox content but maybe another instance has tons of content. It’s a bit confusing.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah, when you joined a reddit community after the 2010s, most of the popular ones would have some posts as a backlog to jump into. Only very rarely would you get a niche sub that hadn’t had anything posted that week. Kbin’s really just getting started and it’ll take a little while for things to fill out, but I have a lot of hope! The cat and dog photos are starting to roll in already, amyfou is posting regularly to /m/dogs! /m/food has photos and a discussion about cake!

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      1 year ago

      Like another user mentioned- content across the fediverse isn’t federating with kbin.social except in a very limited capacity. This is temporary.

      https://fedia.io/ is another instance of kbin which has a much smaller local population but is federating much more than kbin.social at the moment. You can see posts from lemmy on the front page.

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        I am still getting my head around this fediverse concept. I know of lemmy and I am here at kbin because I heard that kbin is one of the larger communities, but now you are saying fedia.io “is federating much more”? Does that equal to more content from other sources?

        Maybe I’m still thinking in reddit-terms. Fuck, I miss my Baconreader.

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          You’re pretty much right. I am on Fedia as well, just because I’m exploring. It’s been difficult to go past the concept stage in my head while here, simply because it’s currently limited due to the growth and cloud flare hindrance (this is, from what I’ve seen, is partly causing the federation issues). At Fedia, I’ve been able to sort of practice the platform. It is federated with lemmy and other instances, so you get the access to other “subs” and the users there as well. If/when the platforms get sorted, and I’m able to fully vet the instances to see where I fit better, I’ll make a commitment. As it stands, I’ll just swap back and forth as needed and keep exploring.

          I highly recommend checking Fedia, if not just to become more acquainted on how this all meshes together!

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      part of the issue is that kbin has been hit by so much traffic that they’ve activated cloud flare to protect it, which I understand is causing content from other parts of the fediverse to not come in at times. There may be more content here than you are able to access at this exact moment due to the technical issues of growing several orders of magnitude in size.

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      Mastodon is kind of a slow rolling thing. I’ve been on Universeodon for a few months now and I feel like I’m finally getting a good set of accounts to follow that show me what I want to see. But it’s not going to replace what I really went to Reddit for.