What is a useful tip a new lemmy/kbin users should know?

go to

/communities/listing_type/All/page/1 to find communities.

On lemmy, you can tick off 'show read posts' in settings, so viewed posts are hidden.

Until we have migration tools, think of your account as disposable
Never upload anything you don't want the world to see, no matter how private something claims to be

Can you explain the migration tools, or lack thereof.
- In the mastodon/Calckey world you can migrate your account on one instance to a new account on a new instance and all the people following you will transfer and automatically follow your new account. So you don't have to be all "Hey moving to [xyz new instance] follow me there!"
  That's something that's in the works for kbin and Lemmy some day

When you submit a reply or a post, always save it to your clipboard first. Lemmy has swallowed my responses many many times. In fact, it took me about 5-6 attempts to submit this comment.

Possibly the wrong place to ask but is anyone aware if there is a way to see a list of your favorites/upvotes in kbin?

Yup, just go to https://kbin.social/fav

Question: is there a way to save posts or comments?

Yes of course. In the web app there's a little star icon you can click and on jebora theres a little badge next to the vote buttons
Commenting to see if anyone answers this because I don't know how to save it
At least on my instance, you can click the three dots under the post to open up some expanded options, then click the star to save the post.
On Jerboa, there should be a little bookmark icon under each post.
- Oh hey, the star is there for me too. As an old, I sometimes have issues recognizing all the diverse pictograms that modern tech design uses. Many of them are not intuitive, or are not standardized enough to assume any meaning without prior experience. In this case they're also really tiny on a phone screen.
  Thanks for the tip.

Don't forget to hit the CTRL button when clicking on any external links so they open in a new tab. Basically pretend it's 2012 again.

@npastaSyn Thanks to ActivityPub you can use Lemmy/Kbin and other fediverse social networks without the need of making a new account in them.

Right now I'm writing this from Mastodon.
If I were about making an account probably I'll go to lemmy.ca people over there seem extra chill.

Like adding extra Lemmy to an order of Lemmy.

There isn't explicitly a profit motive on here (unlike almost every other big social media site).

So you can do away with the clickbait-y, karma or like farming...

We don't do that here.

On that note, upvotes and downvotes upvote matter even less here ("here" meaning kbin) as the factor dictating comment order in the "hot" ranking is boosting (think retweet equivalent), not the vote count.
Not sure how that goes on Lemmy though.

Set your settings early on so you can get notifications xD (click your username, then Settings)

The defaults are set to be very minimal, so I was wondering why I never knew if anyone had replied to me.

Almost none if these were set by default

You can find all those bad people who got banned on reddit here and they have to be banned again :D

If you want Lemmy to be successful, contribute as much high quality content as possible so more people will be inclined to stay here. Don't lurk.

Can somebody ELI5 the difference between kbin and lemmy. I think I understand lemmy being like mastadon. Who is hosting kbin?

Kbin is also like Mastadon. It's basically the same thing as lemmy, just with a slightly different user interface. (I personally like it better, which is why I'm here, lol.)
The main kbin instance, kbin.social, is hosted by a guy called @Ernest, who's also the main (only?) dev who created kbin. But there are other kbin instances hosted by totally unaffiliated people, too.