/kbin meta @kbin.social Arotrios @kbin.social 1 yr. ago

YSK that Kbin can subscribe not only to magazines and communities, but entire instances.

This may be useful for folks looking to expand their feed. I discovered this on accident and it completely revolutionized my experience on Kbin.

To view all of an instance's posts, just use https://kbin.social/d/[instance domain here]

This appears to work for all Kbin instances, most Lemmy instances, and some Mastodon instances (this may have to do with their federation with kbin.social - I'm uncertain). Other platforms may work as well. Some examples:

https://kbin.social/d/lemmy.world
https://kbin.social/d/lemmy.ml
https://kbin.social/d/geddit.social

https://kbin.social/d/mastodon.social
https://kbin.social/d/hachyderm.io

Just hit the button to subscribe, and the entire instance is in your feed. It also provides a nice jumping off point to explore and subscribe to specific communities on that instance.

When you use this technique with a list like what's available from the Fediverse Observer, it really widens the reach of your feed and your ability to participate across the Fediverse.

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As an added bonus, you can also use the https://kbin.social/d/[instance domain here] scheme to block entire domains, if you find that they include content you don't want to see in your feed.
- Dammit, that's awesome, didn't even see the block button - you got me bonus hunting now... :)
  
  Bonus #2 - Turns out the /d/ parameter works for ANY domains with content posted on Kbin or in your feed.
  
  For instance, let's say you wanna see (or block) everything posted from Facebook:
  
  https://kbin.social/d/facebook.com
  
  or Twitter:
  
  https://kbin.social/d/twitter.com
  
  I gotta hand it to Ernest - this platform has got some kickass code under the hood.
  
  Are you suggesting I can block any media posted to kbin from those websites!? My god....I could block the porn gifs at the source. Ha ha! Get less fucked, timeline!
  
  On the minus side, since instances only have to take on the data from whatever their users are specifically subbed to and they ignore everything else, I wonder if users subbing to multiple entire instances like that will drastically increase load in a way that would prove difficult for a young server?
  
  I'm not a tech person at all, so I may have misunderstood, but isn't kbin's federation already backed up temporarily because of the wealth of combined activity?
  
  Oh damn, that is very nifty! Will be great to avoid some low quality submissions.
  
  Oh that's brilliant! Nothing against our German friends, but my All page gets full up with German language content and blocking feddit.de might be quite handy.
  
  But if I do this, would it also block me from seeing feddit.de users' comments on other instances (which I wouldn't want to do)?
  
  ...and a kbin instance will run in docker (or on a raspberry Pi) with only 2gb of ram... I'm with you there is some crazy clever code propping this all up!
- Tried it with feddit.de* (https://kbin.social/d/feddit.de) but I still get posts from there.
  
  *) Sorry german friends, I don't understand your language.
  
  Same here. Blocking instances seems to be bugged, but following them seems to work fine!
Anyone know how to save a post on kbin? I’ve been rooting around and haven’t been able to figure it out.
- best I can find is to comment and hope someone replies.
Is there a list somewhere with all those special kbin url lines? like /magazines

edit: oh boy, I tried

https://kbin.social/d/lemmy.world

And it's only memes, it's even worse than reddit on a bad day.
- They are currently on a shitpost train.
  
  I guess it is fine for now. It improves engagement and SEO for other websites and people to grain traction.
  
  They are currently on a shitpost train.
  
  They've been on one since I migrated from Reddit, I don't think they're going to stop.
This is why we need more single topic instances. Time to join everything in:

https://kbin.social/d/startrek.website
https://kbin.social/d/ttrpg.network

I feel like there are so many good deep single topic instances that will naturally become the default
- I would like to see subdomains for communities here. like @competitive.kbin.social for lots of sport-like things as an example. Also place (city, state, country) and fandom or other stuff like that. And make it easy for people to block that subdomain with allowances for the things they actually want to see (though I guess if it's still accessible by subscriptions or directly going there, that works too).
When I try to subscribe, it asks me to log in. How do I log in with my .world ID, not start a new one?
- You can't. You're trying to do something on kbin.social (or another kbin instance), which isn't the instance you're on.
  
  If you want to use kbin, you'll need to, well, use kbin. The instances talk to each other, but you don't have an account on one just from having an account on the other.
question: if you block an instance but sub to a magazine in that instance, which takes priority?

unfortunately there are some english communities in otherwise non-english instances that are worth following but rest of the instance has to be blocked to clean up the feed :/
- Language filtering is in progress right now, hopefully it can make it soon to help alleviate those pain points - most of my blocklist is due to posts being in languages I don't speak as well

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