April

The post you linked is from the lemmyworld@lemmy.world community/magazine. This means that it's hosted on lemmy.world website. The url you gave is fedia.io, meaning that you're on fedia.io website, viewing a post hosted on lemmy.world.

I'm not really sure what the parenthesis listing is for.

Actually it seems the links to imgur are expandable even for threads?

@synacksyn

@synacksyn you can directly upload images lol. and I think if you embed them in text they have expandable option? Test image... your previous posts that I saw just posted a "link" rather than doing a text article with image embed, or direct image upload. which is probably why it wasn't expanding?

/sub should only be showing magazines you're subscribed to (and users you're subscribed to iirc). the all page (without the /sub) should show everything.

I used reddit for news, socializing, and discussion/debate. along with niche hobbies/interests. I'm not sure how much the fediverse stuff can replace that lol. we'll see.

kbin.social and fedia.io are two separate websites. They are called "instances". Collectively, these sorts of sites are referred to as the "fediverse".

Posts on one "fediverse" site can be see on another "fediverse" site. For instance, right now you're apparently posting from beehaw.org, which isn't a kbin instance but instead appears to be a lemmy instance.

I'm currently using fedia.io, which is a kbin instance.

The group we're in right now is technology@beehaw.org, which is hosted on the beehaw.org website/instance, which is the site you're using right now. But I can see and interact, since we're together on the "fediverse".

If you signed up for kbin, you have a kbin username as well, but it's separate from your beehaw account. For example, I'm @Otome-Chan@kbin.social but also @April, I don't have a beehaw account so any posts I make on beehaw groups will have to be from either my kbin account or my fedia account. whereas you can respond with your beehaw account as you've done here :)

So yes, it's the same "fediverse" between kbin, fedia, and beehaw. Though notably kbin.social is having some issues with federation right now due to lots of people joining it.

My experience on reddit is very similar to yours. The more niche subreddits you could get away from it a bit but.... yeah. the video you shared captures it perfectly.

As for beehaw, I'm not on there so idk. I joined kbin/fedia but my experience on the fediverse sounds similar to your own. Lots of people just chatting and talking about how it feels like "the old internet" and not really any of that reddit snark/heated debate.

wait rarbg is gone? damn they were my go-to movie site... https://yts.mx/ seems to still be up though, I like them even though some people warned about honeypot?

tech and gaming have a lot of posts/magazines. It seems like the lemmy communities are the most active. there's also a lot on kbin.social but that's not federating properly atm.

You just make an account like on a normal website.

The main kbin site is: https://kbin.social/

While I'm posting from an alt-instance right now: https://fedia.io/

Both sites will give the same UI. Though the main kbin site is having some difficulties federating properly atm. hence why I'm on fedia right now. You just sign up with a username/password/email like normal and then you're on.

The games I play usually don't support online at all lol. So a game being only online is kinda a deal breaker for me lol.

I think kbin.social is also struggling with federation as a whole right now. But as for the "starts only when youre instance get a reference to the community" what all counts for that? someone searching in the search bar? someone posting cross-instance?