Some thoughts about using the Microblog functionality in kbin and why, controversially, I think it might actually beat Mastodon at it’s own game - browsing toots.

Kbin let’s you have a curated feed of posts from the fediverse (including Mastodon toots) which is sorted by new, hot, top etc.

Steps:

  1. First, if you are subscribed to the https://kbin.social/m/Random magazine, I’d suggest you unsubscribe - kbin drops everything which it can’t allocate to a magazine into here, which for the Microblog stuff is a lot of noise.

  2. Do make sure you’ve subscribed to a few magazines, but also you can subscribe to domains like https://kbin.social/d/social.bbc

  3. Follow people (I’m not sure of they will show up, but can’t harm)

…now look at “Subscribed”, and then choose the Microblog section (on desktop it’s a tab at the top, on mobile you’ll need to scroll to the bottom of Page 1 to find the Microblog button).

You should find this Microblog has stuff linked to the magazines you subscribe to, this is due to hastags being linked to those magazines, and also included posts from domains you’ve subscribed too. I’m not actually sure if people you’ve followed show up here(?)

Better still you can now sort and filter this list, New, Hot, Top / 3h, 6h, 12h, day, week etc.
This is sorting based on boots and upvotes.

In summary you’ve now got a custom curated feed of fediverse posts, and you can sort this feed by the posts which are most popular.

…I don’t think Mastodon let’s you sort your feed like this - this is power!

Edit: Fixed the hyperlink to Random

  • monkic@kbin.social
    2·
    11 months ago

    Does Kbin also show posts from other microblog Fediverse like Firefish? It would be really nice if it could!

    • Teppic@kbin.socialOP
      3·
      11 months ago

      Sure. I don’t know anyone on firefish, but this is dansup of pixlfed on that platform:
      https://kbin.social/u/@dansup@pixelfed.social/posts
      If you want to see posts from somebody on another platform just search them, something like “@ dansup@ pixelfed.social” (without the spaces) and follow them. From then on you should be able to see their posts (note you won’t be able to see old posts, just any new ones from when you followed them onwards).

      • monkic@kbin.social
        1·
        11 months ago

        Super cool, thank you so much! I still am not sure if I can see Firefish posts automatically in the Microblog tab though. I also don’t know anyone there yet but I’ve been thinking of making an account after seeing a few posts here about it!

        • Teppic@kbin.socialOP
          3·
          11 months ago

          I think this instance would have to be aware of the post, so either

          • Somebody on kbin.social would have to have followed the user who made the post; or
          • A there needs to be direct mention of a user or a magazine here (along the lines of @ random@ kbin.social) in the post.

          Once this instance knows about the post I think, yes, it can appear in the Microblog tab.