Somebody give this person Kbin gold
this post was submitted on 31 Jul 2023
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I feel like the microblog feature would be more useful if we could get a separate feed/filter that doesn't include the tags of magazines that you're subscribed to. For example, I'm subscribed to /m/fediverse because I want to see the threads that people post here. I don't necessarily want to see every mastodon post tagged #fediverse, though.
It also looks like we can't subscribe to a tag by itself, without subscribing to a magazine that includes that tag. So yeah, some more separation there would be nice.
Yes I was also thinking along those lines. When you create a magazine you can choose hastags to associate with it, I briefly considered whether you could create a magazine specifically to have interesting hashtags for you - problem with that is you end up modding the magazine and anybody can see it, join it and post.
I suspect what you describe might come later, it feels like a natural progression from what we have now.
I think people are just used to how Twitter works and how to interact with it. Mastodon is the closest thing there is. It's simple.
Kbin is nice and all with many features, but sometimes people like to have different apps for different functions.
This is true, but twitter also has an opaque algorithm to choose what appears in your feed. By default Mastodon only allows you to view your feed in chronological order, so there is an argument to make that kbin allows a more twitter like experience...
I do also get there is a steeper learning curve with kbin, and it's basically still only an alpha release (it's clearly not going to be right for everyone).
Does Kbin also show posts from other microblog Fediverse like Firefish? It would be really nice if it could!
Sure. I don't know anyone on firefish, but this is dansup of pixlfed on that platform:
https://kbin.social/u/@dansup@pixelfed.social/posts
If you want to see posts from somebody on another platform just search them, something like "@ dansup@ pixelfed.social" (without the spaces) and follow them. From then on you should be able to see their posts (note you won't be able to see old posts, just any new ones from when you followed them onwards).
Super cool, thank you so much! I still am not sure if I can see Firefish posts automatically in the Microblog tab though. I also don’t know anyone there yet but I’ve been thinking of making an account after seeing a few posts here about it!
I think this instance would have to be aware of the post, so either
- Somebody on kbin.social would have to have followed the user who made the post; or
- A there needs to be direct mention of a user or a magazine here (along the lines of @ random@ kbin.social) in the post.
Once this instance knows about the post I think, yes, it can appear in the Microblog tab.
This is working great -- didn't know subscribed had a microblog feature, thanks.
I've been playing with subscribing to gup.pe groups as well, and they show up in subscribed microblog. E.g. subscribing histodons@gup.pe pulls in most mastodon posts for history.