Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but I’m new to this whole fediverse thing and I don’t know if it works like it seems to.
So I have this kbin account, and I also have a Mastodon account. This one is the one I want to use, and theoretically I should be able to use it to communicate with the whole(ish) fediverse, right? But that doesn’t seem to be working.
Both my accounts follow one another. But when I post something on either account it doesn’t show up in the other account’s feed. Is it not working, or am I just misunderstanding something? Kbin definitely seems almost ideal for what I’m hoping to get out of this system (at least when there’s a better mobile experience) but if it doesn’t work like this than maybe not haha.
(And if a better mobile experience isn’t on the table anytime soon, what alternatives would y’all recommend? Subscribing to the magazines on something like Mastodon doesn’t work as well because the “account” you follow retweets every single post and comment.)
I saw that the dev for kbin had to enable DDoS protection (presumably because there is so much new traffic) which is most likely the reason for being unable to see new posts from other instances. This should all be fixed but it may take some time to scale properly.
You may have slightly misunderstood the Fediverse.
Accounts are not shared between different systems. They’re not even shared between different instances of the same system.
What gets shared is the content, and the knowledge about other accounts.
So you can follow a Kbin user from Mastodon, or vice versa. A Mastodon user can boost (“retweet”) something posted by a Lemmy user, on Lemmy. A Kbin user can upvote (“favourite”) a post that’s on Mastodon. A Calckey user can reply to a Kbin post, and that reply appears on Kbin and Mastodon and everywhere else that the thread is visible. And so on.
But your actual account, i.e. your username & password and the profile associated with it, are firmly and permanently associated with the specific server you initially registered with.
And this is why we shouldn’t keep saying “it doesn’t matter which instance you sign up on” to newcomers.
I think the best approach would be to make a list of the most vibrant and general purpose instances, at least a few of them, and direct people to those. Once they figure it out, they’ll find their best fit anyway. If their initial experience is in a particularly slow or very niche instance, they might abandon the platform altogether due to the wrong impression they get.
That’s exactly what happened to me with mastodon because the first instance I signed up for was too niche and too small. It just felt dead. It was the same three or four people posting disjointed stuff and never interacting with each other by the looks of things. I figured it out in time but that was a bad first impression nonetheless.
They didn’t say they were trying to use one account to log into another site. They said they had accounts on both platforms, that the accounts were mutuals, and that they couldn’t see the content being shared.
This is likely due to the DDoS protections being in place.
I’m new too and also have a Mastodon account, just tried my first post on Mastodon and was able to see it here, just be aware that mastodon post shows under microblog.
Haven’t tested the other way posting here and checking on mastodon but I guess if you post as a micro blog it will show but something under magazines maybe not.
Also want to mention that at first it did not show up (granted was just a few seconds, a minute at most) but I search my mastodon account here in kbin and it showed there and after that it showed on microblog, I guess with the search a kind of forced the sync between kbin and mastodon.
Just tested the other way, posting in kbin and it almost intermediately showed up in my mastodon account feed. But this reply does not show up, so I guess threads do not get shared/synced ¯\(ツ)/¯
edit: Just checked and I see this post on mastodon if I search for you @sotired, but the replies does not show on the feed as are show under the user post and replies tab, I guess mastodon feed only shows posts
As far as I know you can’t have one account for the entire fediverse, so they’re separate accounts and can’t be connected.
I know they’re separate accounts but I don’t know why I can’t see the posts on the other one if I can follow the account.
Yeah I believe it’s a work in progress situation right now. It’s a new world so it’s going to be a bit bumpy from time to time.
As far as mobile, there is one in the works but I’m not sure when. He does have a demo up on the website so hopefully soon? In the meantime I’m using the site as a PWA and it works pretty well.
I can confirm on Firefox for Android that kbin works really nice as a PWA!
After experiencing reddit on a mobile browser, kbin PWA is fantastic
Kbin is supposed to be able to communicate with mastodon and most other softwares on the fediverse, which is why it exists. Definitely needs some tweaking, though, there’s like one dev right now.
