When I first joined Kbin I didn’t think nothing of it, I had already been enjoying and using Lemmy as well as Mastodon and other parts of the Fediverse, So I knew what I was roughly getting into but didn’t release how much Kbin had to offer.
So here coming up to hour 24 of my experience so far I hope to keep on using this platform into the future. First of all Kbin is a bit more complex than just another Reddit clone as it brings both Reddit’s ‘Alternative’ Lemmy as well as Twitters ‘Alternative’ Mastodon together in one place.
If you want to do a Mastodon / Twitter like post use the Microblogging feature but if you want to do a Lemmy / Reddit like post use the Threads Tab. This is one thing I was confused about and guessed wrong the first time I used the site.
What about Magazines, Well I’m not a huge fan of the name Magazines and much prefer the Lemmy name for them Communities, These are like Subreddits in Reddit. After using these for a while I started trying to find some of the Lemmy communities I enjoyed on there, Sadly if someone hasn’t tried finding it before it’s hard to find and once you do it doesn’t have any previous posts making it have no content on it to being with.
What about the People Tab? Well the people section is great, if you like seeing what someone talks about you can check out there profile and follow them allowing you to keep up with what they get up too.
There’s also some other cool features that really sealed the deal for me such as the Statistics Tab in Settings allowing you to look at how many Posts, Comments and Votes you’ve had across your profile, Also if your an Ex-Reddit user don’t worry there’s Reputation or as you knew it as, Karma allowing each person to have a usefulness score on the platform.
For my 24 hrs on a new platform, I’m glad i’ve learned so much and hope to keep using the platform into the future, I’m glad I will be able to have friends message through other Fediverse Instances like Mastodon or Lemmy allowing them to have there preferred platform it makes me feel as if the Fediverse is what the Internet was always meant to be.
I would love to hear about your experiences across the Fediverse.
As I understand it, Firefish/Calckey is a fork of Misskey, and both are microblogging so I presume they’re Twitter-inspired but it has a much richer feature set so I’m not really sure of its “inspiration lineage”. Maybe it’s a clone of something else but I just don’t use social media enough to know.
Also, I just realized I actually have a Misskey account rather than a Firefish/Calckey account. I’m that clueless lol
But yeah I’m definitely enjoying the fediverse. It’s proving to be both a useful place to find info and a fun place to just hang out and chat!
@GlennMagusHarvey Thank you, Yeah I luckily get Microblogging through Kbin. So I think I will keep using Kbin especially with the future developments they hope to add in.