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FediTips has moved!Jun 15, 2023

#Kbin update:

- The https://kbin.social server is now federating with the Fediverse. You can follow/interact with kbin.social magazines & users from other Kbin servers, Mastodon & rest of the Fediverse. For example the TIL magazine is at @TodayILearned, the lead dev of Kbin is at @ernest

- There's a new Kbin server at https://readit.buzz which is run by the same people as the Universodon.com Mastodon server. It's open for signups, just click "log in" and then "register".

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elkaki Jun 15, 2023

@feditips @ernest

I have a few questions in case anyone could answer, how does the federation work? If I go there through mastodon am I limited to commenting or can I upvote/downvote?

Lastly: how can I follow the instance or specific magazines?
In case it's relevant, I'm using fedilab so it allows me to follow multiple timelines, but I've been trying to follow https://kbin.social/m/PCGaming
And I just don't understand how to do it

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DannekRose

@elkaki @feditips @[email protected]

Kbin doesn’t have a public timeline like Mastodon does. Everything is part of a Magazine or Group which Mastodon doesn’t have. It’s a very different model from microblogging.

For example, from a kbin account while logged in to kbin, a person could have tons of content they want to see by subscribing to magazines without ever subscribing to a user account.

Fedilab, from what little I understand, doesn’t actually “follow” an instance in the strictest sense. It basically “looks” at the other instance’s public, local timeline similar to what you would see from a browser that opened up the site (without being logged in to that site) and pulls from there.

While kbin will show you content if you open the site in a browser, that’s not a “public timeline” like Mastodon’s.

Upvotes are actually not specifically defined in Activity Pub. Kbin and Lemmy use “Likes/Favorites/Stars” on a thread/post for upvotes. Downvotes don’t exist at all in the specification so Mastodon and other platforms can’t understand them at all.