• honorfaz@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    So far I’m in the wait and see camp, especially until the apps actually shut down on the 30th. In an optimistic view where this site takes off (I don’t even know what that means in a federated situation. Aren’t the instances fracturing communities? Posts transfer but it doesn’t seem comments do…), moderation of huge magazines would be incredibly time consuming and difficult, I imagine.

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      1 year ago

      Admittedly the system is a bit confusing as far as UX goes. I’m a fairly nerdy gal and am familiar with servers and software packages and “instances”, and I’m still having issues wrapping my head around the UX.

      For example. I’m on Kbin, federated with Lemmy instances. Which is working obviously. But how do I go about discovery of networks and instances and communities within those instances from Kbin? That seems possible but to an uninitiated user, not exactly the simplest thing. None of this is a dealbreaker for me, but what about others? Am I the only one not quite understanding how it all slots together interface wise?

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        No, you are definitely not the only one. I explored this style of social media for the first time several months ago because of what was going on with Twitter.

        I got confused pretty quickly and ultimately decided it would be easier to just quit Twitter and use Reddit only, even though I would be giving up things I liked about Twitter.

        But now we’re here, so I’m trying again. Still confused tho

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          At least we have a reason to push through that confusion and try to make the best of what we figure out now.

          I wish you luck!

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      1 year ago

      Yeah that’s a really good point. Hopefully we (or someone) can get this figured out with a good solution

      Also +1 for that marathon pic