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Key things about the Guide:
Steps: Helping you get the job done. Explanation: Understand how things work.
Steps: Go to Kbin's homepage, click at "Instances", and choose one of the listed Kbin instances.
Explanation: Think of choosing an instance as choosing your email client/provider (ie: Choosing between Gmail, Yahoo mail or Outlook). When you pick the email provider you want, you simply create an account there. For example, I create an account called "thearstainventor@yahoo.com", I can still send an email to my friend "friend@gmail.com".
You see what's happening here? It does not matter if both you and your friend use different email providers, you can still connect with your friend and send emails to him even if he uses Gmail, and you may use Outlook, Yahoo mail, or anything else.
The same concept can be applied to Kbin, it does not better if you sign up on a different instance compared to someone else, all instances are interconnected and you can connect with people from other instances on Kbin.
Steps: As Kbin is on early development stages (beta), the open source Kbin mobile apps for both Android and iOS are currently under development. Until then you can use Kbin on mobile using web apps, here's how you do it:
Android: Chrome/Chromium Firefox
iOS: Safari/Webkit
What are web apps? Web apps (also known as PWA/Progessive Web Applications) act like native applications but runs through your web browser.
These are currently the best 2 instances available:
- kbin.social: An instance focused for English-speaking users.
- karab.in (recommended): While meant for polish-speaking users, both the content and the UI is mainly English, hence we recommend new users consider signing up here instead. This will also help reduce some strain on kbin.social.
- nadajnik.org or kopnij.in: Both of these instances use a slightly modified UI focused on Polish, hence either of these instances are best for polish-speaking users.
As Kbin continues to grow, more instances will join the above list, we will continue keep it updated.
Interested in hosting an instance? Please refer here
Yes! Kbin has in-built customizations, please check the sidebar as shown in the below image to customize Kbin according to your preferences. We highly recommend trying all the options to learn about them.
Kbin's communities are called Magazines, and posts are referred as "Threads" from Magazines.
Yes, kbin has reddit's karma-like system called "Reputation points". You can check your reputation points by clicking at "profile".
- Optional Table of Contents (Once more questions arrive especially).
- More questions for Moderators/Community creation and management.
- Updated guide for mobile once apps are launched.
Have a question that's unanswered and not mentioned on the planned section above? Please leave a comment, we will update.
Note that this was originally posted by u/TheArstaInventor on reddit at https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/145npay/the_redditors_guide_to_how_kbin_works_your/. I've mirrored it here to provide some redundancy in case reddit tries to delete it