RIF had it best. Click the thumbnail for the link, and the post title for the other options such as view comments.

Kbin all day. Reminds me of old forums so it's got the nostalgia appeal.

The thing he doesn't comprehend is that third party apps were reddit's value creation engine.

But if you think everything in life is a zero sum game you are delusional.

How many people would have happily spent some of the free credits Google play store awards on paying an annual £5 to be able to continue using RIF to cover API costs?

Hi, moderator of m/quickstart here.

Here's how to get notified when someone replies to your thread or comment.

Yep hostile is the perfect way to describe Reddit.

The "old" saying "don't feed the troll" has been forgotten by a big portion of the internauts.

I'm not sure they ever knew it in the first place!

But never mind now, we're here and we can finally relax.

Yup a lot of good has come of this.

Since it's the Fediverse they could be called something like constellations :)

I have taken the executive decision to turn federation off for a similar reason.

I was recommended a vile post on the sidebar from m/random which I definitely never want to see the likes of again. I did report it but since it was from another server I don't really know where that goes.

I'm not going to turn federation back on again until I find a way to prevent it. Perhaps we should start a blacklist?

Thanks for the shameless plug opportunity for m/dryherbvapes!

Add Spain to the list.

Thank you and I appreciate the write up but I had actually already blacklisted a few domains.

Unfortunately that did not prevent the post from appearing in m/random because it was from a domain that I had not already blacklisted.

I simply do not want to have to act reactively once I have already been exposed to the vile content. At that point my experience is already ruined whether I block it afterwards or not.

Another reasonable approach might be to block m/random which I might consider doing if I am tempted to enable federation again, but for now I'm just going to play it safe and stick to kbin.social.

Welcome friends! Make yourselves at home.

Funny you should say that because created a magazine this morning for this exact reason!

It's called m/quickstart and it's intended to get new users up an running as quickly as possible. Don't expect too much there's literally 2 subscribers and it's basically just me posting mobile screenshots on the microblog with the tag #quickstart.

Maybe this configuration should be default?

Constellations, if you will.

Hi, moderator of m/quickstart here.

They are not dumb questions which is why I had started this community. And as a matter of fact I had already posted regarding some of your questions.

Where can I see a list of the magazines I'm subscribed to? A list, not posts from.

Answered here: How to see a list of all the magazines you are subscribed to

Why do the thumbnails for posts appear distorted? The have incorrect aspect ratio. Is there a way to fix this?

Sorry I don't know yet.

Where can I see a list of local communities?

Disable federation then view the list of magazines.

How is microblogging handled differently from other types of posts? Do they all show up on the home page?

As far as I know it's only if the user selects 'microblog' from the homepage.

EDIT: #5 I don't seem to get any notifications of any sort, visual or otherwise, that I have received responses to a post or comment. Is this the way it's supposed to be?

Answered here: How to get notified when someone replies to your thread or comment

Edit: tested something and it didn't work as expected.

Kbin works like a dream except for the occasional server error.

Thanks, I was trying to figure out tables earlier!

Maybe it's nostalgia from my vbulletin/phpbb days...

I am having a bit more luck with this method.