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Am I the only one who is annoyed by kbin PWA auto rotate? It always auto rotate even when I turn off auto rotate on my phone. This make it unusable when trying to use it when lying down. It always switched to landscape mode when I try to use it on my bed and it drives me crazy.

Is there any way to make kbin play nice when going back after viewing a post on infinite scroll? It's very frustrating to use after the first "page" as the browser gets stuck at the bottom of the first page and needs to be scrolled all the way down back to wherever you were.

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Is there any way to block an entire instance, instead of just individual communities one at a time? My feed has a ton of stuff from feddit.de, I don't speak the language.

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Especially when you don't want them

So when I come to Kbin, the default view (All) seems to be posts to articles across all magazines and communities from federated instances. Seems straightforward enough. When I click to view "Moderated" nothing shows up, which makes sense since I'm not moderating any magazines. However, when I click to view "Subscribed" I see different content from "All" but most of it is from magazines that I am not subscribed to. Is this a glitch, or am I misunderstanding something? How would I go about viewing only content from the magazines I've subscribed to?

I have no issue with All being the default, especially with Kbin being so new. I like being exposed to new magazines and communities, but I'd like to explore the ones I've joined and work to build them up. Thoughts?

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Is there a way to filter out words from posts, so I don't see that post in kbin? I don't want to see anything about trump or Nazis. I haven't found the option yet.

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I've been on kbin for a couple of weeks now and made a few comments. I'm interested in sprucing up my profile though and adding an avatar. But for the life of me, I can't see how to do that on my profile page. Can anyone point this dumb bunny to the right spot?

I also have no idea how to submit a post. I'm writing this one, but it feels more like a comment because there's no place for me to put a title.

Thx for any tips!

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I feel like the whole kbin UI is very convoluted. It's hard to find a view that shows only posts from my subscribed subs. The create post button is super far away from the actual sub. What even is a Microblog? Or why is there a people tap? Who actually cares about following someone and stuff? Am I posting a post or a microblog thing right now? Why can't I enter a title? If it's not a post, where do I find the posting option?

I really want this to be awesome and a good Reddit replacement, but I feel everything is way too hidden and convoluted right now...

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When adding a link to #Kbin 's magazine as a thread, title and abstract forms would be filled with that of source article.
I missed that the abstract contains "I" which means author of the article and I left it as it is.
Strictly, I should have changed it to "author" instead of "I".

I had been using an account on kbin.social without any problems. Then I changed the email address associated with it to a newly-created alias. I did not realize until too late that the alias was not actually valid yet when I made the change.

kbin logged me out. When I try to login I get the message "Your account is not active." I've tried multiple login and triple-checked the password, but I get the same message every time.

I asked to reset my password. I got the reset email, clicked on the link, changed the password, and it all seemed to work. But I still get the same message when I try to login.

Any suggestions on how to fix this? I don't want to lose the account.

Hi. I'm new here. I don't understand what does federation mean? what happens when I turn federation on/off

Why do the thumbnails, and my profile image, appear as 'squashed'?

It's not only my account, but also others.

I changed my image to a perfectly square image, thinking that may help, but it still looks the same - squashed!

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Is there a way to enable 2FA? (https://kbin.social)

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Hi,

As of right now, the site is pretty much entirely inaccessible for blind users on macOS. The reason for this is that the VoiceOver cursor has an unfortunate habit of jumping around all over the place, often miles away from where it aught to be. For example, if I try and look at my notifications, I often get jumped to the footer, or to the profile of the person whose comment I’m reading, or really anywhere else. This happens occasionally on iOS as well, though not nearly as frequently, for example I occasionally find myself clicking on the skip to content link when attempting to open a text field.

Apologies if I’m not explaining any of this clearly, it’s quite hard to describe to someone without much screen reader experience.

Thanks.

On the list of Magazines at the top of the screen is an option for Favourites - I cannot figure out how to add Magazines to this list, does anyone know?

Lemmy have fixed this problem in the latest developer build, might be in stable by now. They replaced the buttons with toggles which screen readers can recognise. Kbin’s accessibility is top notch aside from this one problem, so chears for that. :)

The title. How often do you turn off federation and only scroll through kbin threads and magazines?

I'm quite concerned by the huge increase of seemingly bots on some Lemmy instances. Dvmsocial and beehaw defederated from some. What about bin? How to protect ourselves from the bot swarm that's coming?

Sources :
https://kbin.social/m/random/t/78537/Blocking-instances-for-potentially-suspicious-activity
https://kbin.social/m/support@beehaw.org/t/77620/Defederation-from-instances-suspected-of-becoming-bots-haven

Edit :
A Lemmy guy created a script that can auto defederate from these unprotected instances. Maybe it is the short term solution :
https://kbin.social/m/agora@sh.itjust.works/t/78131/Vote-Use-the-Fediverse-Overseer-to-pre-emptively-defederate-from-suspected

I can't seem to find how to filter languages and I keep getting German posts. Is language filters a thing in KBin?

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I'm a bit confused at the explosive growth of Lemmy and the slower growth of Kbin. Do the stats reflect the reality or is there a problem with the data being fed back to the various stat hubs?

I know the difference is partly because Lemmy was a larger platform, and is better known but the growth of Kbin seems suprisingly flat while the community seems to be getting more and more active?

See, now, Mashable is being disingenuous here and stating that this is still about the API instead of Reddit's mask-off front and center plantation mentality toward the very people they accuse of being 'landed gentry'.

I am trying to subscribe to a channel on a PeerTube instance from kbin. Considering they are both ActivityPub, it would make sense that kbin could integrate with a PeerTube instance. But when I try to "Subscribe With A Remote Account" using my @ given in the profile section, I receive the error "Cannot fetch information of this remote account" Likewise, I get the same result when using just a regular email as theat seemed like what "jane_doe@example.com" was implying.

Users’ anger continued to bubble over changes to the company’s business model.

I’ve been using kbin on a mobile phone for a week and just found out about settings for themes. The button was not too obvious for me.

Some settings I really like:

• Show thumbnails off - thumbnails are always distorted
• Auto media preview on - you get back full sized images
• Infinite scroll - better scrolling experience overall

Generally, I’m quite happy with these settings. It feels close to the experience I had with Apollo.

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