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.

  • 0xtero
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    502 years ago

    As an added bonus, you can also use the https://kbin.social/d/[instance domain here] scheme to block entire domains, if you find that they include content you don’t want to see in your feed.

    • ArotriosOP
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      702 years ago

      Dammit, that’s awesome, didn’t even see the block button - you got me bonus hunting now… :)

      Bonus #2 - Turns out the /d/ parameter works for ANY domains with content posted on Kbin or in your feed.

      For instance, let’s say you wanna see (or block) everything posted from Facebook:

      https://kbin.social/d/facebook.com

      or Twitter:

      https://kbin.social/d/twitter.com

      I gotta hand it to Ernest - this platform has got some kickass code under the hood.

      • Nepenthe
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        Are you suggesting I can block any media posted to kbin from those websites!? My god…I could block the porn gifs at the source. Ha ha! Get less fucked, timeline!

        On the minus side, since instances only have to take on the data from whatever their users are specifically subbed to and they ignore everything else, I wonder if users subbing to multiple entire instances like that will drastically increase load in a way that would prove difficult for a young server?

        I’m not a tech person at all, so I may have misunderstood, but isn’t kbin’s federation already backed up temporarily because of the wealth of combined activity?

        • AdventureSpoon
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          82 years ago

          My god…I could block the porn gifs at the source. Ha ha! Get less fucked, timeline!

          In all meanings of the phrase, in this case apparently.

      • HidingCat
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        122 years ago

        Oh damn, that is very nifty! Will be great to avoid some low quality submissions.

      • Teppic
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        72 years ago

        …and a kbin instance will run in docker (or on a raspberry Pi) with only 2gb of ram… I’m with you there is some crazy clever code propping this all up!

        • thanevim
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          62 years ago

          Effectively, we’re seeing the output of software developers that aren’t held back by corporate red tape, Agile development, focusing all resources on monetizing user data, and general office politic bullshit. Quite refreshing, seeing what we’re capable of.

      • theinspectorst
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        52 years ago

        Oh that’s brilliant! Nothing against our German friends, but my All page gets full up with German language content and blocking feddit.de might be quite handy.

        But if I do this, would it also block me from seeing feddit.de users’ comments on other instances (which I wouldn’t want to do)?

  • 50gp
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    102 years ago

    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 :/

    • rideranton
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      72 years 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

    • insomniac_lemon
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      I would like to see subdomains for communities here. like @team.kbin.social for sports as an example. Also place (city, state, country) and fandom or other stuff like that. And make it easy for people to block that subdomain with allowances for the things they actually want to see (though I guess if it’s still accessible by subscriptions or directly going there, that works too).

    • discodoubloon
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      22 years ago

      Hoping eventually that will be the way it should work, but it would also be smart to have small subs here that way if something crazy happens people can still communicate.

      • dumples
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        12 years ago

        Yeah there’s definitely going to be some organic growth with generic instances with lots of catchall subs and a few specific topic ones. It’s a interesting method to create a online community

    • moohamin12
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      82 years ago

      They are currently on a shitpost train.

      I guess it is fine for now. It improves engagement and SEO for other websites and people to grain traction.

      • SoNick
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        11 year ago

        They are currently on a shitpost train.

        They’ve been on one since I migrated from Reddit, I don’t think they’re going to stop.

  • moohamin12
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    42 years ago

    This is probably the thing that is gonna get me to daily drive kbin over other lemmy instances.

  • lemonh3ad
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    32 years ago

    Anyone know how to save a post on kbin? I’ve been rooting around and haven’t been able to figure it out.

  • czech
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    12 years ago

    You aren’t necessarily viewing all of an instances posts this way- you’re just viewing all posts from a particular instance that are federated with your instance. You can see different /d/lemmy.world feeds from different kbin instances, for example, depending on which lemmy communities are federated with that instance.

  • avividtale
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    12 years ago

    How exactly do you block? I’m still learning the platform and I haven’t had my coffee yet for the day.

    • cloaker
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      12 years ago

      Scroll down to near the bottom of the page of a magazine or domain, next to the subscribe is a black and white 🚫 icon.

  • BananaTrifleViolin
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    12 years ago

    When any user subs to a magazine doesn’t the content from that magazines hist get mirrored on to your instance? So if users sub to entire servers all that servers hosted content would get mirrored?

    If that’s the case, subbing to entire instances may not be desirable for your home server in terms of performance and hosting costs? Particularly long term of instances balloon on size due to use?

    • subignition
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      12 years ago

      Federation isn’t retroactive. Only activity that occurs after the federation is established will be mirrored

  • @orntar
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    12 years ago

    When I try to subscribe, it asks me to log in. How do I log in with my .world ID, not start a new one?

    • ChemicalRascal
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      92 years ago

      You can’t. You’re trying to do something on kbin.social (or another kbin instance), which isn’t the instance you’re on.

      If you want to use kbin, you’ll need to, well, use kbin. The instances talk to each other, but you don’t have an account on one just from having an account on the other.

  • kjr
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    12 years ago

    But it doesn’t work for every instance… don’t ask why.
    The two instances of Mastodon in which I have my accounts are not reachable through this way

    https://kbin.social/d/babka.social
    https://kbin.social/d/hed.im

    But people from those instances follow my kbin account (and opposite) … thus they are federated with kbin and the federation does work.

    Other domains like facebook or twitter should not be accessible, but they are and the results are not really good…