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YSK that Kbin can subscribe not only to magazines and communities, but entire instances. (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This may be useful for folks looking to expand their feed. I discovered this on accident and it completely revolutionized my experience on Kbin.

To view all of an instance's posts, just use https://kbin.social/d/[instance domain here]

This appears to work for all Kbin instances, most Lemmy instances, and some Mastodon instances (this may have to do with their federation with kbin.social - I'm uncertain). Other platforms may work as well. Some examples:

https://kbin.social/d/lemmy.world
https://kbin.social/d/lemmy.ml
https://kbin.social/d/geddit.social

https://kbin.social/d/mastodon.social
https://kbin.social/d/hachyderm.io

Just hit the button to subscribe, and the entire instance is in your feed. It also provides a nice jumping off point to explore and subscribe to specific communities on that instance.

When you use this technique with a list like what's available from the Fediverse Observer, it really widens the reach of your feed and your ability to participate across the Fediverse.

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 year ago (2 children)

As an added bonus, you can also use the https://kbin.social/d/[instance domain here] scheme to block entire domains, if you find that they include content you don't want to see in your feed.

[–] [email protected] 82 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Dammit, that's awesome, didn't even see the block button - you got me bonus hunting now... :)

Bonus #2 - Turns out the /d/ parameter works for ANY domains with content posted on Kbin or in your feed.

For instance, let's say you wanna see (or block) everything posted from Facebook:

https://kbin.social/d/facebook.com

or Twitter:

https://kbin.social/d/twitter.com

I gotta hand it to Ernest - this platform has got some kickass code under the hood.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Are you suggesting I can block any media posted to kbin from those websites!? My god....I could block the porn gifs at the source. Ha ha! Get less fucked, timeline!

On the minus side, since instances only have to take on the data from whatever their users are specifically subbed to and they ignore everything else, I wonder if users subbing to multiple entire instances like that will drastically increase load in a way that would prove difficult for a young server?

I'm not a tech person at all, so I may have misunderstood, but isn't kbin's federation already backed up temporarily because of the wealth of combined activity?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

My god....I could block the porn gifs at the source. Ha ha! Get less fucked, timeline!

In all meanings of the phrase, in this case apparently.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Oh damn, that is very nifty! Will be great to avoid some low quality submissions.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

...and a kbin instance will run in docker (or on a raspberry Pi) with only 2gb of ram... I'm with you there is some crazy clever code propping this all up!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Effectively, we're seeing the output of software developers that aren't held back by corporate red tape, Agile development, focusing all resources on monetizing user data, and general office politic bullshit. Quite refreshing, seeing what we're capable of.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Oh that's brilliant! Nothing against our German friends, but my All page gets full up with German language content and blocking feddit.de might be quite handy.

But if I do this, would it also block me from seeing feddit.de users' comments on other instances (which I wouldn't want to do)?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tried it with feddit.de* (https://kbin.social/d/feddit.de) but I still get posts from there.

*) Sorry german friends, I don't understand your language.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Same here. Blocking instances seems to be bugged, but following them seems to work fine!