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How are you using or hoping to use kbin? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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With Twitter and Reddit the way that they are, many people are turning to federated servers as their online home, kbin among them.

How are you using kbin? As a Twitter replacement? Reddit? As something new entirely?

Personally I'm trying to follow multiple types of federated content, magazines, and people.

I think kbin has a lot of growth to go through before all that content can become streamlined and look nice - but it's all there, and that's what counts.

If there's one thing I would change, it would be putting the comment box at the top, or in a drop-down instead of at the very bottom of a thread. But, I'm also just happy that the site is more stable and people are posting!

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Kbin, like Reddit, is more about following topics and conversations rather than people. I have a Mastodon account but I never really got into following people and posting whatever on my account - I vastly prefer the forum-like nature of browing by topic, responding to interesting conversations, etc.

I think somewhere in KbinStyles you may be able to find a script which places the comments above the replies, but honestly I kind of like the way the comment box at the bottom encourages you to at least skim the existing replies first.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Just to follow up on this KES has a magazine https://kbin.social/m/enhancement with install instructions. If you're able to use addons with how you browse kbin, you can rearrange it using this under Threads -> Rearrange post order. The suggested order has the reply box at the top

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Kbin, like Reddit, is more about following topics and conversations rather than people.

This may be true for you, but it's not an objectively true fact. If that's how you wanna use it, that's cool, but from the start, kbin has allowed finding and following ppl. You can use kbin just like any other microblogging service if you want.

Right now, it's threadiverse features are more easily available than its microblogging features, but I think kbin could be an awesome combination of both sides of the fediverse without sacrificing features or usability.