Highly recommend both the script Kbin Federation Awareness and kbin social add home-instance name to username. Makes it a lot easier to tell where things are originating from at a glance!
The former takes people from other domains and makes their posts green text on green background. The colors are manually set and not reflective of any magazine styles or the like, but I have no idea why rgba(20, 45, 20, 1.0) is the color someone chose. I recommend anyone who wants that script edit line#41 to something like
GM_addStyle('[data-is-federated-content="true"] { background-color: #EEE; }');, but even then this is a bit annoying to have to do manually.It works on dark theme (I use only dark).
On dark it’s light (white) text on dark green background, and it looks fine (I would prefer black or similar, but this works).
Your edit breaks dark design because you get white/grey background.
I think I remember that it was explained as follows: the link next to the title shows where the thread (or link or image) is hosted. Since kbin.social has a copy of the thread on it’s servers, it shows it is from there (clicking on the title will get you there). If you post a link from, say cnn.com, the text will say “cnn.com” as that is where the title-click will get you and where the text is hosted.
@Guadin I can only speak for myself, but seeing “kbin.social” as the “source” of a post because the “source” it’s referring to is a local copy is actually counterintuitive and confusing. If a post was made in Lemmy.world, it should say Lemmy.world. Otherwise, it is not providing information that is useful in anyway. After your explanation, yes, of course it would make sense that a post from other instance has a copy here in my local instance, but isn’t that just something we can just assume? Especially since nowhere else on the post (while viewing my feed) does it indicate which instance the post is from (you have to either click on the post and scroll past all the comments, click on the community name and scroll past all the posts on the first page—impossible if you’ve enabled infinite scrolling—or do some shit with copying and pasting a url that I don’t want to bother doing because I should just be able to tell where a post is from by looking at it. I don’t think I’m being unreasonable.)
That depends on how you want it. While I get your point and struggle with it myself, it shouldn’t really matter where the original is. The name after the title is mostly useful with pictures, videos and links. You’ll see where it is from, if it is reliable (who clicks sketchy links or reads fake news) and where you’re going when you click it. For articles, I agree it could be better. Maybe they’ll change it to make it more intuitive.
@Guadin What would make sense to me, is if the community name shown was the full community name. For example, I should show [email protected]” instead of just “Chat”. The fact that it only shows “chat”, and the only visible instance name is “kbin.social” makes things extra confusing.
And yes, I know you can get this information from a certain amount of clicking and scrolling, or from the sidebar which isn’t visible on mobile, but I see no reason why it couldn’t just show “@beehaw.org” after “Chat.”
The Kbin.social you’re seeing isn’t the instance it’s in, it’s the site you’re going to.
Like if the page was linking to imgur, you wouldn’t see any instance. You would see Imgur.com
Every text-based post is going to say kbin.social unless it’s using a direct link to the instance source (in which case you would be going to that instance’s site rather than the article as it shows in kbin)
If you hover over the startrek, it will show what instance it’s from.
It could be good to add, but basically the instance source isn’t shown directly on the feed.
edit: I don’t get the downvotes though. The thread was asking why it is the way it is. I’m just explaining how it works, not saying that there isn’t a problem with it (also noted a bit further down I do agree it should be added somewhere)
I am on mobile, and therefore can not hover.
