Asklemmy

Agreed. The systems are being flooded from the migration. Communities are quickly being formed. A little patience and people rolling up their sleeves to make it better go a long way.

... or top day if you want more established posts with lively comment sections that age out after 24h.

Can you explain the migration tools, or lack thereof.

This has been quite useful in keeping my feed fresh.

"So you can do away with the clickbait-y, karma or like farming..."

Are there many individual users who participate in these type of activities?

My understanding is that a lot of it is automated: farming with the intent to make accounts look legitimate and eventually manipulate public opinion to whatever ends (like selling a product/service).

Is kbin doing anything different that would curb or dissuade such behavior?

Just wait until things grow. Those people will come once there is an audience to extract money from.

Eh, I don't see that changing here. There's no explicit profit motive on Reddit either (at least, not in terms of the Reddit account), but it still happens. Companies are incentivized to have titles that get clicks, and users just like seeing the number go up. It's just what happens.

Or use the middle mouse button.

Or long press on a phone or tablet.

Or cmd+click for Mac users.

I also can't find this setting. I'm assuming it's not part of kbin.

Absolutely this. If you are looking for a community and you have issues finding, make it easier to find by letting others know. If it doesn't exist or lacking content, add it or build it.

At least on my instance, you can click the three dots under the post to open up some expanded options, then click the star to save the post.

On Jerboa, there should be a little bookmark icon under each post.

Yes of course. In the web app there's a little star icon you can click and on jebora theres a little badge next to the vote buttons

Please tell me how I can follow a magazine / community in Mastodon. I tried to do it but would only see a random comment, not the OP of a post or any of the other comments. When I would click on the comment it would take me directly to Kbin or Lemmy. (Which is fine, since I'm mainly on Kbin for the message board feel and on Mastodon for the miceoblog experience.)

Aren't they cross compatible? I'm still fuzzy on the differences. Also lemmy instances were getting hammered, (as it looks like the kbin are too now), so thus my choice of kbin.

Yup, just go to https://kbin.social/fav

Kbin is also like Mastadon. It's basically the same thing as lemmy, just with a slightly different user interface. (I personally like it better, which is why I'm here, lol.)

The main kbin instance, kbin.social, is hosted by a guy called @Ernest, who's also the main (only?) dev who created kbin. But there are other kbin instances hosted by totally unaffiliated people, too.

I’m no expert but I can do my best. Kbin was created by @ernest, and is actually a very young platform compared to even Lemmy. It let’s you post threads, similar to Reddit or Lemmy. Like Lemmy, it also uses something called ActivityPub, which means that Kbin users can see and comment on Lemmy threads and vice versa as long as the instances (ex. Lemmy.world, kbin.social) are “federated” meaning that they are talking to each other.

One of the big differences is that Kbin supports microblogging as well, similar to a Mastodon or Twitter post. Because of this, you can see and interact with content on Mastodon from Kbin much more easily, which also uses ActivityPub. Lemmy can also technically interact with Mastodon but it is not as seamless as threads don’t display that well on a microblog and vice versa.

There’s some more technical and cultural differences as well but I think that’s the biggest difference in function.