daredevil

This is huge, I really hope BHVR sticks the landing with this one.

When you follow a given account on #Mastodon with your #kbin account, posts from that account will be #federated here. If they use #hashtags, then posts they write will be federated into #magazines here based on permitted tags chosen by magazine moderators which show up in the #microblogging section of a magazine. AFAIK, posts that don't get sorted into a particular magazine will be sent to @random. In order to search for magazines/communities, you can search for linux@lemmy.world for example.

Attached below is some helpful information.
https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/129425/Can-some-one-explain-how-the-microblog-feature-works#entry-comment-507634

This isn't the same thing as you mentioned, but when these changes go live you could manage your magazine more effectively for the time being. I did a little skimming and didn't see anything like your request being mentioned here. It's possible I missed it, but you are free to make the suggestion yourself. If that sounds like too much, I may do that for you some time later, as I also think that would be an interesting and useful feature to have.

As long as you make it clear that the magazine you're moderating is for your own posts, I don't see any problem with restricting content to your own. If anyone has a problem with it, they can make their own magazine. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I feel this. I've made attempts to generate discussion by making posts, utilizing microblogging to engage with those on Mastodon, and laid down structure for a magazine and I've seen some steady growth. However, engagement is sparse. At times it feels like I'm talking to myself. There's probably things I could be doing better to foster a healthier community. That said, I understand the gripes OP has, and believe this will be remedied over time thanks to the existence of federation.

edit: These upcoming changes might help ease your mind, @DarkGamer https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/p/1002621/Hi-in-this-and-probably-the-next-week-I-will

I like the forum-style posts and #microblogging integration. The local community has also been pleasant to engage with so far. I've been running two magazines and lately have been seeing some federated Mastodon posts show up in one of the magazines I run. It's nice to have an area akin to a daily discussion thread which lets me engage with the different parts of the #fediverse.

Greetings from kbin :)

Yeah, I believe there's still a lot I can learn from using LM. I'm interested in other distros/DEs, but I'm saving that for later.

Linux Mint Cinnamon. It's been good, no complaints. Very helpful for easing into Linux by having a GUI, and I've been learning CLI and bash scripting.

I run two smaller magazines which don't get posts frequently. I also don't feel comfortable advertising them, because that has generally turned me off from social media in the past. However, I've been able to engage a bit with others through microblogging. Incentivizing engagement is a bit challenging, but I do have some ideas for things I could write about to stir some discussion.

I might suggest that others try it. The fediverse gives us agency in the spaces we can create, and offers perspective on the bigger picture.

I've been getting some use out of it in the magazines I manage. I have some more ideas on how I want to use them, but I'm taking my time with it.

Hastags are helpful, imo.