I want to check out KBin, but it literally the whole 1st page, the top 25 posts, were all from Lemmy communities.

Seems like KBin is almost just a front-end for lemmy now :(

  • tal@kbin.social
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    24
    ·
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    I mean, they share the backend communities/magazines, so it shouldn’t matter where a given one lives, but you can turn off showing federated content and you’ll only see stuff on kbin.social. Won’t see stuff on other kbin instances, though.

    Click the little button with three connected nodes. In the desktop Kbin Web UI, it’s in the right-hand sidebar. On mobile, it’s near the bottom.

    Beneath that, you’ll see a “Federation status”. Click “off”.

    Don’t forget to turn it back on later, though.

    You can also browse the list of magazines on kbin.social. Those will all be local.

    You can also browse just content on one instance, like only communities on one Lemmy or kbin server, by using the /d/ prefix. So, to view stuff on fedia.io, which also runs kbin, you can do this:

    https://kbin.social/d/fedia.io

    Or you could just browse to fedia.io’s Web UI:

    https://fedia.io/

    And then do the same “toggle off federated content” thing to see only content on fedia.io.

    I don’t think that there’s a convenient way to see all content from all federated kbin servers but to exclude content on federated Lemmy servers, though.

    • insomniac_lemon@kbin.social
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      edit-2
      1 year ago

      I just tried turning off federation and I am still seeing some lemmy.world posts, I also tried blocking the instance before that but it doesn’t work.

      Other people mentioned subscriptions, but I didn’t have a lot of subscriptions on the old site so the equivalents here don’t have enough activity for that yet. So I really do want a mix of things like how it was working a few days ago.

    • mack123@kbin.social
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      That approaches my current workflow. View all with federation, view subscriptions with federation and repeat without.

      It would be nice to have that as options on the home screen, but it is not an urgent priority.