So… I take it that the sleep thing didn’t happen? Been there - should be sleeping, too “in the zone” to sleep.
It’s that thing that you eventually have to give in to, lest you turn into a gibbering wreck, unable to do something as simple as make a cup of coffee, without doing something stupid like putting the kettle in the fridge and wondering why the bottle of milk doesn’t have a switch on it to boil it…
so we can defederate individually with any magazine or all of an instance such as lemmy.ml
If you want to block an entire instance of Lemmy you can use the /d/ (for domain) function. For instance, if you didn’t want to see anything from lemmy.ml you could go to https://kbin.social/d/lemmy.ml and click the block icon on the right side. You can manage your blocked domains from your settings. You can also block individual Magazines/Communities by going to the community and clicking on the block icon.
You can also use the domain feature to block non-Lemmy/Kbin sites: https://kbin.social/d/newrepublic.com
Also, I’m not suggesting that people should be blocking either of those domains. They were just some of the first options on my feed that I could copy for examples.
Wow, that’s a superb feature I didn’t know existed! So I could subscribe to https://kbin.social/d/newrepublic.com (not going to just using the same example) and get every thread that links there - nice!
Oh so that’s what that does!
when you say “disable federation” do you mean preventing our content (threads/comments/posts/etc by us as an individual) from being shared/seen on other instances? or do you mean that it prevents us from seeing federated content? or both?
You only see local only. Unless the instance de-federates your content can be seen on other instances.
@ernest Is this something on kbin’s side for why Mastodon isn’t showing any posts from kbin.social? I’m able to view Lemmy communities fine on Mastodon, but unable to view anything from kbin.
I had to play around with it a bit to figure out how this is working. Basically, if you post to a Magazine’s “microblog” it uses the Magazine name as a hashtag. See: https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/p/433361. Paste that link in your Mastodon client and you’ll see the #kbinMeta hashtag. So, if you want to follow the Kbin Tech magazine you’d have to follow the #tech hashtag in Mastodon. If you look at that Magazine you’ll see posts there from Mastodon servers. Those are posts with the #tech hashtag. Posts that don’t have a hashtag end up in the Random magazine.
If you dive into the technology behind it all you start to see that all of these different platforms are designed to show the same content in different ways. They’re all based on the ActivityStreams protocol: https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-core/.
Take the image object. If you post an image to Mastodon you see the text that was posted with that picture then the picture. If you look at the same picture in Pixelfed (similar to Instagram), you’ll see the image first and displayed prominently, since it’s the focus, followed by the text. In Lemmy or Kbin you’ll see a small thumbnail that you can then expand to see the full image. Same image object type, different ways of displaying it.
I guess the point is, depending on what your interests are (microblogging, sharing links, sharing photos, etc) you pick the platform that most suites your need. Or, have multiple accounts for posting different content.
Thank you for a breakdown. Weird that posts from Lemmy work on Mastodon though but kbin posts on Mastodon don’t really work. I have both a kbin account and Mastodon account. Using Mastodon more as microblogging and kbin more as a reddit replacement right now.
Yeah, I was hoping I would be able to use my Mastodon account on here, or at least see some posts from kbin on Masto but I haven’t been able to figure it out.