Are there any communities you’ve not yet seen on kbin that you used to visit on Reddit?

Edit: So a lot of people don’t know this, you can search for magazines on kbin here - https://kbin.social/magazines

  • RedditExodus@kbin.social
    4·
    1 year ago

    I think the biggest problem I have is that the magazines exist but have little to no activity.

    I and a few other posted in /m/motorcycles but I don’t think there’s been any activity since.

      • RedditExodus@kbin.social
        0·
        1 year ago

        Interesting, that community doesn’t show anything when I browse to it from kbin.

        What I’m doing is clicking the magazines button at the top of the kbin page and searching for motorcycles. I see kbin.social/m/motorcycles which is where I’ve posted and commented. At the end of the search list I see the lemmy.world/c/motorcycles community, but it shows no activity and only 1 subscriber. When I click on it, I get a message saying “The magazine from the federated server may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.”

        When I click the link to browse more, it takes me to the actual lemmy.world page where there is a bit of content and I can see that there are roughly 250 subscribers.

        Maybe I’m not understanding how federation works, because I was under the impression that I was supposed to be able to interact with communities from lemmy.world (or other federated instances) from within kbin.social. I must be missing something and I consider myself somewhat technical so I imagine this is extra confusing for someone non-technical.

        • 000@kbin.socialOP
          0·
          1 year ago

          Things have been hit and miss for the last day or so in terms of viewing other communities on other instances. You may find that in a few hours it’s showing posts when browsing from kbin, I’m seeing other ones that were empty now starting to show posts and comments.

          • RedditExodus@kbin.social
            1·
            1 year ago

            Maybe there are issues with the data being synced back and forth not happening as expected and what I’m observing is unintended behavior.

            • 000@kbin.socialOP
              1·
              1 year ago

              I’m quite new to all of this so don’t take my word as gospel but I agree with you. Earnest, the ‘admin’ of this instance has said he’s working on getting the stability of kbin taken care of so it’s only going to get better as time passes.

              It’s having an explosion of new users, magazine creation and general activity so it’s probably going to take some time to catch up and upgrade accordingly.

    • yungsinatra@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      Is there no alternative to r/fantasy here? I’ve been able to find so many books and get many recommendations from there :(

  • shepherd@kbin.social
    2·
    1 year ago

    I miss all my hobby and crafting subreddits lol. Off the top of my head,
    Woodworking / Beginners
    Sewing / Knitting
    Dioramas / Terrain Building
    Painting
    Survival / Preppers / Camping / OneBag / Travel

    Not trying to out myself, but I don’t see my Country / Region / City here yet.

    Wouldn’t mind some health, lifestyle, and research science.

    Can we get AskHistorians on here??

  • AngryRoomba@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    Id love to have aviation related magazines. Also metalmemes or memes in general. Computerscience and programming would also be great. The problem is that im not too happy about the tankie infestation of lemmy an thus I try not to interact with it too much…

  • comfort_zone@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    r/UnresolvedMysteries. I really liked this subreddit. Now I took a look at the thread about API changes which is stickied there and it just seems a lot of people are asking “can someone explain to me what’s going on/who cares about 3rd party apps” (and my favorite one - “it’s all power-hungry mods’ fault”), so it doesn’t seem like the community will migrate from reddit.

    I miss reading all the write-ups, not only about true crime but also other mysteries.

    I’ll also add: LiminalSpace and ididnthaveeggs (for all the insane recipe reviews lol).

    • 000@kbin.socialOP
      2·
      1 year ago

      We have m/LiminalSpaces here on kbin! Although not much in it due to the young age.

      • comfort_zone@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        Thank you, I subscribed! Hopefully it will take off :)

        Btw, I got a notification about your reply, and I can see it on your profile, but I do not see it when viewing the thread. Not sure why. Never mind, all is working now.

  • yungsinatra@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    r/beermoneyuk for me… it was a good place for me to find some additional sources of online income (really helped me out this year as a student). I’ve created the magazine @beermoneyuk, just in case (if the mods ever show up I’ll gladly give ownership to them), but I’m not sure if enough people will visit it.

  • FormallyKnown@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    I spent most of my reddit time on video art subreddits.
    Like r/stablediffusion r/curcitbending r/mediasynthesis and most of all r/videosynthesis

    m/videosyntesis has been made, but is only me and the mod for now. Hopefully we can get people to migrate in time.