I wanted to get a pulse check on how new members are finding the general experience/website. Is it more confusing than Reddit or are you finding the instance system a better way of doing things as it can give you more freedom of where you choose to create an account?

I’m a new user myself but have found the experience to remind me of Reddit back in the day, lol. It’s definitely giving me old-school yet modern vibes and it’s great to see something that isn’t Reddit growing in popularity!

  • Brad_Brace@kbin.social
    3·
    2 years ago

    It’s turning out confusing. Like I created an account on lemmy.world. Then I saw kbin existed and came over here… or went over there? And created a new account, with the same name. But now I’m seeing that the stuff I comment here… there… on kbin anyway, show up also on lemmy, so now apparently I have two accounts for the same stuff? Except I didn’t saw a way from lemmy to log in on kbin with the account from over there. If that’s even something that can be done. Kbin looks friendlier. Actually… am I writing this on kbin or on lemmy… what the fuck is going on? Where the hell am I?

    • devexxis@lemmy.ml
      2·
      2 years ago

      You wrote this on lemmy.ml. You can te by how your user name is displayed here. Others writing from different instances would have their “full names” displayed. Something like @username@instanceName

      EDIT: Apparently I was wrong. It looks like that only holds for other lemmy instances

    • TheycallmeBadger@kbin.social
      1·
      2 years ago

      This. I think I have a kbin account, a lemmy account, and the mouse fedora one.

      So should I just use different accounts to sort things? Like one account for everything gaming-related? How many different PCMR magazine-instance-communities will I need to subscribe to?

      I’m sure I’ll figure it all out, but it’s gonna take a couple of days.

      • possum@lemmy.ml
        2·
        2 years ago

        You don’t need to create more than one account, you can access everything from just one (unless a server goes down). I guess you can just use them like you use Reddit alts

        • Brad_Brace@kbin.social
          1·
          2 years ago

          Okay, so I’m getting that you can follow all of lemmy through kbin, but can you follow all of kbin through lemmy? Because I get the feeling there’s magazines you can only subscribe to through kbin.

          What I’m getting is that kbin is like a special entrance to, I guess, the feediverse, with some extra “rooms” on it’s side of things.

    • aqua_synonym@lemm.ee
      1·
      2 years ago

      Okay, so you only need one account to access the entire fediverse network, may it be Kbin or Lemmy (even Mastodon can actually access the fediverse). So you don’t need a separate account for Lemmy when you already have a Kbin account because you can access the same content as any other Lemming (that’s what the folks down below said users of Lemmy are) there is.

      • Brad_Brace@kbin.social
        0·
        2 years ago

        Okay. But if I follow that “The magazine from the federated server may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance” link, on a… magazine(?) I’m subscribed to on kbin, and end up on lemmy, it still says there that I am not subscribed nor loged in. And to comment from there I still need to log in from my lemmy.world account. So at least subscriptions are their own separate thing on lemmy and on kbin, right? Earlier for instance, I was trying to subscribe to The Scary Door magazine, but from lemmy, and I couldn’t find how to do it. From the kbin account I could follow it easier.

        I guess I’ll just stick with the kbin one since things look simpler.

        • possum@lemmy.ml
          2·
          2 years ago

          Links kind of break things because they take you to a different website, even though it’s content you can access from the one you’re on. I think there are people working on fixing that.