On the kbin.pub. It said:

It can communicate with many other ActivityPub services, including Mastodon, Lemmy, Pleroma, Peertube.

I thought Mastodon (and maybe other federative platforms) are very different from kbin, in terms of the intended uses and functionalities. How do I interact with it?

When I make a thread on /m/kbin, what does it do on Mastodon?

  • Gamers_Mate@kbin.social
    2·
    1 year ago

    I am not sure how to see the main feed of mastodon from kbin but you can use
    https://kbin.social/u/@USERNAME@INSTANCENAME to view posts from a specific user.
    Kbin seems to treat individual accounts on mastodon as different magazines.
    Also from Mastodon it will not appear in the main feed but you can use a fediverse link to view it and comment on it.
    Next to comments and posts where it says more it will give you a fediverse link. If someone puts that in the search bar in mastodon they can connect to it.

    • CarrieForle@kbin.socialOP
      2·
      1 year ago

      Thanks for the info. Especially that you can view accounts from other federverse platforms on kbin. I’m going to do some experiment on my own.

      • ernest@kbin.social
        3·
        1 year ago

        Hey, in the microblog section, most of the posts come from Mastodon and other platforms. Threads are mainly from Lemmy and Friendica.

        If you want to include post from Mastodon in concrete magazine, simply mention it in the post content, for example, @kbin@kbin.social

  • Teppic@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    If you click a hashtag e.g. #kbin then you’ll find much of what is found is from Mastodon.

    I’m sure it must be possible to search for a hashtag in a similar way but I’ve not quite worked that one out!

  • CarrieForle@kbin.socialOP
    1·
    1 year ago

    Some updates. Apparently, making a thread in kbin will make a post on Mastodon, but not immediately. Here is the main page of my account on Mastodon (mastodon.social): https://mastodon.social/@CarrieForle@kbin.social

    Under Posts tab, you will see this particular thread(https://mastodon.social/@CarrieForle@kbin.social/110717469552820707) and its replies. In contrast to my initial thought, posts on kbin seems to be ignored by Mastodon since I did not see my posts on my main page there.

    On the other hand, Posts from Mastodon is transferred to posts (microblog) in seemingly arbitrary magazine on kbin, and again, not immediately.

    Here’s an example of a post from Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@jensorensen/110719419446130679
    Here’s what it became on kbin: https://kbin.social/m/internet/p/859696/Latest-comic-Pick-your-social-network-socialmedia-internet-tech-authoritarianism

    If you dig a bit in that account, you’ll see her posts are posted in different magazines, which is weird since there is no magazine equivalent in Mastodon. I’m guessing it’s on kbin’s side that does this transformation, probably with the help of hashtag?

    Also, posts that’s too old will not be transferred. I did not find this post on kbin: https://mastodon.social/@jensorensen/110204027397694156 . Based on the time when it’s posted, it’s somewhere between April 16 and April 23.