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I see a very small minority of people using Kbin, but I don't understand why.

Is this just a coincidence and did some people choose Kbin over Lemmy or is there a good reason to use Kbin?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nice! Bookmarked for when this inevitably keeps coming up in support threads haha :D

I've definitely found it to be a good way to get interactions going in smaller communities so far, if the topic has a decent presence on the Mastodon side. Can't quite decide if that's cheating or not but some of those communities need all the help they can get!

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Not cheating at all! It should be happening more IMO!

  • First, there's a lot of parallel chatter and interests kept separate because people are on different platforms.
  • Second, bringing down the boundaries between instances and platforms (so that don't all have to use screenshots all the time) is what the fediverse is about)
  • Third, using existing communities and platforms to activate new communities and platforms is supposed to a super power of the fediverse, as it makes it easier and easier to kickstart new things as the fediverse grows
  • Fourth, and getting back to the second above, the fediverse's "killer app", IMO, is the eventual creation of a diversity of communities and platforms that interoperate in a useful, flexible and engaging way for the user.

At the moment, I'm actually frustrated at the lack of cross platform engagement between lemmy/kbin and mastodon. A big part of it, IMO, is the simplicity of mastodon's UI and how integrating with any other platform with a more sophisticated UI becomes difficult. Right now, for instance, mastodon has no nice way to deal with a community/magazine or a post with multiple threads of comments beneath it, as all mastodon does is see everything as a flattened stream of posts in reverse chronological order.

Right now, posting from mastodon to a community is the only way to bring these worlds together that works for users of both platforms, except for the user making the post, which is a problem.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You've articulated my thoughts perfectly and emboldened me not only to keep doing it, but to do it way more.

The trickiest part so far has been wording toots in such a way that they still look and read like Mastodon content, but also are in the correct format for Lemmy. Also the fact that I recently moved from an instance with an extra-long character limit to one with the default, but such is life lol.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh yea ... that character limit man ... once you have a decent one (>2000) you can't go back!!

I've actually though of suggesting to some communities that do regular posts like star trek's episode threads to post them from a mastodon account just to get some engagement.

It'd be cool if there was some bot that made this easier.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's one of those use-cases (and I understand why it's not a thing, but still) where I'd love to have quote toots. Just being able to share the Mastodon version of a post but add a bit of text and hashtags and stuff so people on there see it and can easily interact with it. Commenting works but is a bit awkward on one side and a bit spammy on the other.

So many ways the integration could eventually go! But what we do already have is still pretty cool, just gonna keep experimenting with the best way to get people talking to each other.

Anyway consider me a recruit to your Lemmy/Mastodon crosspost revolution! ๐Ÿ˜„

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Totally with you.

Thanks for the chat ... and Awesome!