If I click the link you provided, my browser takes me to Lenny.ml. There I am not logged in and my credentials from feddit.de are not working. So I cannot post there.

I think it only works if the link points to a community on another instance. Like !memes@lemmy.ml . Maybe this is the intended behavior.

The downside is, you can not visit an instance and view the local communities and their post and interact with them. This makes it a lot more attractive to join the instance where the communities are you want to frequent.

Edit: the link to the community does not work either for me. But I am kind of sure, that there are links that work as intended and make you just view the community from your own insurance…

This is something I also find strange. If I click a link to an instance, I want to view their content and not visit their homepage, where I am not logged in and cannot do anything.

Thanks for the answer and all the work you put into kbin. Really like the design so far. Only have to get used to the structure a little more.

Something else I am wondering: when I registered at kbin I think I never could choose an instance. So is it only possible to use kbin with a registration at kbin.social or is a plan to allow other instances of it?

Yeah, the design of the individual posts in the feed is nice. Are you using kbin on desktop? Because on mobile I only get the random feeds, when I search. And at least so far I find it a little confusing, where the random stuff starts and the search results end. But I think that will get better over time.

So far I am only using Lemmy, but maybe this is also a nice entry point for the other services.

What are the differences concerning privacy, you are talking about? Aren’t they using the same Lemmy infrastructure?

Windows 10 I have to use it at work, so I am also using it at home, Tried to switch to Linux about 20 years. But it did not meet my primary use case back then (mostly gaming), so I switched back. Nowadays I am on my PC so scarcely that it does not make any sense to me to use this limited time to get used to a new OS.

I would also prefer a static feed page to scroll through. It sometimes refreshes right at the moment, when I want to click a post, so I hit something I did not intent to. It also messes up, when you read a post and use the back button up return to the feed. Often times it already moved on or you land on the top of the feed and have to scroll down again.

Good to know. Is there already some kind of schedule, when the new Engine will be implemented?

Nice point of view, thanks for sharing. I think I viewed things more from a Reddit point of view, where most subs are so big that real interactions in my experience are not that common because everything moves kind of quickly. So I mostly used it as a link aggregator (kind of like an rss feed). If viewed as a Forum, I kind of like the idea of smaller separate (but accessible)communities. I only have to get used to it a bit.

Firefox. Fascinating what a bubble of Firefox user is active here. Should be way different with most statistics show a lot more chrome users.

I am really missing a way to hide posts/threads I have already read and am not interested in further updates. I am scrolling past the same few popular posts until I reach the newer posts that are still gaining popularity. Only option is to sort by new, which might be difficult when more posts hit the service.

I like this approach. Only downside I see is, that it makes communities on smaller instances kind of irrelevant unless they are specializing on a more exotic view on a subject (maybe a conservative take in politics vs a progressive view). Is this not creating a big concentration of „relevant“/big communities on the big instances? I get the feeling any @lemmy.ml or @beehaw.org are on a good way to be the standard/go to instances for communities.

Thanks for the input. Just to be sure I am understanding this correctly: By „Federated Feed“ you are talking about the „all“-Filter in the feed that shows posts from all communities on all federated instances?

I think it cannot help with the day night problem, like you described. Maybe solving the weather/cloud Problem is enough.

I think there are different microwave frequencies. As far as I know, „the microwave“ is using a special frequency, that is absorbed by the water in the food, which heats stehe for up. I think they would use an other frequency, so the radiation is not absorbed by clouds. So it should not harm birds. Planes might need to fly around the path of the rays. Should be possible with a fixed ground station.