I’m sure it’s been asked a bunch, but for people making the great #redditMigration to the #threadiverse , are you choosing Lemmy or kbin?
On #kbin, I can not figure out how the heck to search for Magazines on different servers. #lemmy has the cross server search decently done.
@veedems enable the top bar in your settings, then click "All Magazines". On the search bar, you can then type whatever magazine you are looking for. Note that for NSFW, you must first turn off "Hide nsfw posts" within your settings as well or it'll just show "Empty".
@BiggestBulb that seems to only search my current instance.
@veedems hmm, interesting. Boosting your original post in case someone else knows what's going on
@BiggestBulb thanks. Kbin looks more polished, UI wise, and I know the controversy behind one of Lemmy’s co-founders, but the lack of content on a single kbin instance (kbin.social) is concerning.
@veedems by keyword you mean? on my instance (fedia.io) I just put a word into the main search (magnifying glass icon) and it showed threads from relevant mags, including local, nonlocal kbin, and lemmy communities. I could click on the mag/comm links from those results and sub or read.
@fratermus maybe because it doesn’t show a server after the magazine name, I’m assuming it’s local.
@veedems Could be. I usually hover over the links to see what instance they're on. Wouldn't hurt my feelings if it showed that info up front. :-)
@veedems Seems to work. Certainly could be better and more intuitive. Not sure why so much priority is own instance. Seems it would be nice if federation more transparent.
@mastodonmigration I got it. Thank you. The search screens were a little convoluted to me.
@veedems for me it's all the same interface. I see magazines in the search results from other servers.

eg https://kbin.social/magazines?q=gaming
Magazines - kbin.social

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@smitten finally got it. Thank you!

@veedems I have an account on lemmy.world and kbin.social.

Honestly, even with the same content both have their own tradeoffs, and I open both in two tabs. It may be selfish, but it also costs me nothing to have both.

@veedems Neither. I’m cool with Mastodon.
@Hyphlosion I still miss the specialty of certain subreddits like r/Sonos
@veedems For sure. There’s some good subs I’ll miss. I was giving this platform a month trial period and away from #reddit during this time. But that Huffman dude’s reaction to all this is making me not want to go back.
@Hyphlosion oh yeah I’m definitely out from Reddit. Until he proclaimed that he was inspired by EM, I couldn’t believe I was watching it all unfold. Now it makes sense and I want no part of it. Mastodon is definitely my first home, but I’m big into consumer tech and when new products come out, I love talking about it.

@veedems Neither seem to be perfect. I'm finding that the lemmy server I'm on seems to federate better than the kbin ones I tried and are a bit more reliable.

My biggest concern is that the moderation options are limited for the communities on lemmy (don't know about kbin though).