Do you choose to interact with the fediverse in a particular way?

For example, I only make posts on kbin.social and mostly comment only on kbin.social. I mostly keep federation turned off, but do turn it on occasionally to see if there is anything interesting going on. So for me, it is:

  1. Posts and Comments to Kbin first
  2. Rest rest of the fediverse second (and just occasionally)

I love the fact that I choose which communities to subscribe or block and that I can choose when to federate/defederate from the larger fediverse.

  • Alexmitter@kbin.social
    4·
    1 year ago

    I follow many magazines on many instances, both kbin and lemmy. Too bad federation is broken for all lemmy instances on 0.18 and newer.

    I only use the magazines and not the “microblog” feature, for that I have Mastodon and want to keep that on Mastodon.

  • LennethAegis@kbin.social
    3·
    1 year ago

    I have a mastodon account as well as a kbin account and I regularly use both. From Kbin I follow not just kbin magazines, but several lemmy communities, mostly from lemmy.world and beehaw,org.

    With mastodon, I follow people rather than instances, so it matters much less where everyone is and I don’t particularly keep track of it.

    • readbeanicecream@kbin.socialOP
      2·
      1 year ago

      I have a mastodon account, too, but rarely use it. I felt like the conversations were just not there … but I was/am probably using it wrong.

      • LennethAegis@kbin.social
        2·
        1 year ago

        Are you looking for conversations in your local server, cause those are generally not what I use Mastodon for, though they were a good start to find people that I should follow and curate my list of media for my own.

        I’m a queer person in tech, so I joined tech.lgbt, which led to the people there regularly boosting content related to those topics that led me to find the people I wanted to follow. It rook a while to slowly build a sizable list of people, but I’m now sitting comfortably at just under 100 which plenty of content to wade through daily.

        • readbeanicecream@kbin.socialOP
          2·
          1 year ago

          @LennethAegis In the beginning, I followed mostly news outlets … AP, Reuters, etc. Then, someone mentioned you could follow tags. So, I tried that and it helped with content, but it just wasn’t there for me. I may need to go back and put a little more effort into who/what I follow. Or maybe a different try a different instance.

    • jules@fedi196.gay
      1·
      1 year ago

      I do pretty much the same - I tried to use the a.gup.ee on masto for more of a group feel but it was much too overwhelming. Glad kbin and lemmy are being adopted more. I need my lil video game and craft communities haha.

  • fiofiofio@kbin.social
    2·
    1 year ago

    So far I’ve been browsing all-hot and all-newest mainly, to find new communities to subscribe to (and some to block). At some point, probably soon considering the growth in the threadiverse, I’ll switch my home page to subscribed. I comment wherever I feel like it, but I’ve only posted on kbin.social so far.

  • Ragnell@kbin.social
    2·
    1 year ago

    I use Mastodon primarily and visit Kbin separately. I read and comment to the whole threadiverse from Kbin.social, and all of Mastodon from my instance page on Mastodon. I follow my kbin.social account from Mastodon so I can see my boosts and boost them on Mastodon.