As far as I can tell, magazine tags are mainly used when searching for magazines, and maybe for determining related magazines.

But I think mag tags should be applied automatically to threads and posts inside each magazine. This would make for a decent multireddit substitute.

If I'm looking at the #tech tag feed, I think that should include a lot of content from a lot of different sources that have marked themselves as #tech, not just the individual threads that remembered to actually tag it lol.

In the future, being able to make my own customized feeds would effectively allow for a proper multi-feed experience! Like #tech+#DIY+#raspberrypi feed, or whatever!

Okay, tell me why this is technically difficult, impossible, or otherwise won't work the way that I'm hoping lol.

I'm seeing discussions on other instances about how a "federated" corporate instance should be handled, i.e. Meta, or really any major company.

What would kbin.social's stance be towards federating/defederating with a Meta instance?

Or what should that stance be?

I assume they're just broken for now, 'cause I don't see them doing much of anything right now.

Anyone know what they're supposed to be for? What's the difference vs tags?

COME 'ERE AN' BRING ALL YER GROTZ!!

Hey, would you consider putting links to some of the individual faction mags in the magazine description here? I just looked for them, but this might help the next guy find em faster lol

#Warhammer40K

Hi!

Is there a way to filter for different languages?

This morning, I started seeing German posts, but I don't speak German. I tried blocking the magazine but there's actually a lot of different German Magazines lol, and I'd rather just filter out the language (until I decide to learn it!)

On the other hand, is there a way to add other languages? I don't care about specific magazines in English when I'm browsing /all here, and I'd be happy with the same for Spanish or French.

So I've gone with kbin over lemmy for now, folks seem pretty friendly here.

Main question:
I understand that the point of the Fediverse is (relatively) easy access to decentralized communities. But what happens if the folks in charge of an instance decide they want to close it?

If ernest suddenly decides he wants to close kbin, is all the content just lost? Do we have ways to migrate the content/users/everything?

Even the reddit blackout was noticeably "someone else says you can't have this anymore" so I'm a little more sensitive to this than normal lol.

I realize we're in the early stages of the Fediverse, so it may just be a matter of patience while the smart people figure it out lol. But instance-death or long-term community-blackout seems like a risk across the whole fediverse!

Followup question:
If I post content, should I be basically spreading it across several instances to ensure my contributions aren't lost when someone else closes up shop?