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• olorin99@kbin.earth ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  If you go to the all microblogs feed you can see all the microblogs federated to your instance. Alternatively you can use the combined feed and it will have both threads and microblogs mixed together however you may have to scroll a while or sort by new to see microblogs.

  This is due to the difference in how users interact with the two forms of content and thus how they are ranked by the sorting algorithms. Threads will typically get more interaction with votes and comments than microblogs will because they are strutured more for discussion whereas with microblogs people tend to post more but each individual post gets less interaction and thus they get pushed down with the sorting methods used by lemmy/piefed/mbin.

  Mastodon uses a chronological sort so if you do want to see more microblogs it would probably be easiest to copy that and sort by new. I'm starting to think the only way to get a good mix between the two types of post is to have custom client side algorithms but that can get kinda complicated so no one is really doing it.

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  • unknownuserunknownlocation@kbin.earth ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Good to know about the sorting, that explains why I barely see microblogs. The mixed feed is what I'm generally using, but I only ever see microblogs from kbin.earth and not anywhere else. I've checked to make sure it's set to all instances, as well as all magazines as mbin calls it, but still, only kbin.earth. Even if I just show microblogs. And I don't ever see anything from peertube. So I guess mbin does it, I must be doing something wrong somewhere...

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    • olorin99@kbin.earth ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I'm on kbin.earth too and just checked the combined all feed sorting by newest and 6 out of the first 25 posts were microblogs from a mix of mastodon and misskey so they're definitely federating. I'm not sure of any other settings that would prevent them being displayed. @jwr1 do you have any ideas?

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      • jwr1@kbin.earth ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        @unknownuserunknownlocation

        I am definitely seeing microblogs from non kbin.earth users on my account, and if you view the global microblog page not logged-in, you can also see it as well. I don't believe there is a setting that would prevent seeing microblog's from federated users (apart from the all/local feed option, which you already said was on all).

        Also, here is an example peer tube channel, which you can see video posts federating under: https://kbin.earth/m/thelinuxexperiment_channel@tilvids.com

        I hope this helps.

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      • unknownuserunknownlocation@kbin.earth ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        OK, odd. So I guess something is off on my end.

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