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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 Arotrios@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social
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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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[โ€“] 50gp@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

question: if you block an instance but sub to a magazine in that instance, which takes priority?

unfortunately there are some english communities in otherwise non-english instances that are worth following but rest of the instance has to be blocked to clean up the feed :/

[โ€“] rideranton@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

Language filtering is in progress right now, hopefully it can make it soon to help alleviate those pain points - most of my blocklist is due to posts being in languages I don't speak as well