Did you ever wanna have a username but it was taken? Us early adopters to the fediverse can now freely choose nice, untaken usernames!

Let that sink in. We have the luxury and freedom to nearly choose any username we want. without having to add unnecessary underscores or numbers.

Thats nice.

  • uprise42@karab.in
    1·
    2 years ago

    Hi,

    Transitioning user from reddit here. I think I am having more difficulty picking up on this fediverse thing than I should be. I am on karab.in kbin instance, but not able to see anything outside of kbin. It is actually tough to see anything on kbin even to set up my feed. Any time i search the bar at the top I get a 500 server error. Right now I am only able to look at the trending magazines and when I sort that by active it only gives me ones with 1 or 2 subs and no content. It is making it really tough to migrate from reddit. Am I missing a step? Is there an issue with the search feature currently? I know this probably isn’t the right place to post this, but I can’t even search for the right place.

    • jclinares@kbin.social
      6·
      2 years ago

      Search is currently wonky. You can wait a few day for it to be fixed, or you can go to https://karab.in/magazines and use the search bar there. Anything without and @ is hosted in your own instance, and the ones with the @ sign will have the instance they’re from after the middle @. For example, this thread should show as @ fediverse @ kbin.social, because you’re actually replying to a post on kbin.social :)

    • operator@kbin.socialOP
      5·
      2 years ago

      Kbin and other instances are pretty much overwhelmed with the rapid rise in users. Kbin is still in beta, mobile app in development but @ernest is doing an amazing job here at kbin.social. Give the whole space a little time and things will improve.

      I found myself with the same issues, just use it for a bit, lurk in magazines and you’ll get the gist.

      • uprise42@karab.in
        1·
        2 years ago

        Thanks,

        I can definitely be patient and I understand how complicated this can be to set up. Just being new, I’m not sure what is broke from the surge in user base or what I just am not picking up on. But I’m looking forward to seeing it improve.

          • uprise42@karab.in
            0·
            2 years ago

            This was very helpful. I think my big issue is not having a working search feature which I just have to wait for. A lot of my favored subs from Reddit have moved to Lemmy but those servers seem tough to join with waitlists and such so I was recommended kbin instead. I am fairly confident I will be able to add them once the federated search is working again and be all set.

            • operator@kbin.socialOP
              3·
              2 years ago

              you don’t need to sign up to an instance in order to subscribe to communities. in the “magazines” search type @lemmy.ml for example and it’ll show you communities from over there. And you can use your kbin.social account to interact with post from other instances through this sitel.

              Edit: Except for private communities of course

              • Nepenthe@kbin.social
                1·
                2 years ago

                Really glad to see he’s got it working again. I happened across two lemmy communities last night that were both fairly active, but nothing was coming up for either one no matter how I typed it.

                Now my only problem is waiting for new posts :)

    • Micromot@kbin.social
      3·
      2 years ago

      You can search under magazines to find new communities the dev is also working on improving the federation