I would like to know more about this underrated platform as there aren't many instances for the software.

Cross posted from https://fedia.io/m/mbinmeta@gehirneimer.de/t/4407592

Hey everyone, very new to mbin. I used to have both a Lemmy and Mastodon account separately, so I'm familiar with the idea of threads and microblogs. However, on mbin I'm noticing microblogs can be posted to a magazine, and I've even seen microblogs from Lemmy users. How is that possible? I assumed the only people that could make microblogs were mastodon and mbin users. Also, if you can post a microblog to a magazine, what separates it from a thread? The only thing I can tell is that the app labels one as a thread and another as a microblog.

Starting earlier this week, I don't have links to pages at the bottom of my home page anymore, just a purplish arrow button. On mobile (Opera) sometimes I don't have a button at all, or I have it but on the second page it says reached the end. Can I have my page numbers back please?

Is there a way to create an export of all the people/magazines I follow? Similar to the export that Lemmy lets you create?

Is there a way to export posts/comments?

I feel like there's gotta be a better way to do this

So I just opened the front page this evening, and I suddenly see microblog posts mixed in with threads, which seems to be a new feature of the 1.9.0RC1 release. I get why you would want such a feature, but could there be a toggle to choose if you want microblogs on the front page or not? I know https://fedia.io/threads is basically what I want, but it's a different url from what I'm used to, and it's also different from what my browser history pops up if i type an "f" in the adress bar.

small edit: the threads link in the menu bar is also not consistent, sometimes it links to fedia.io/threads but if I click on magazines first, the link goes to the front page fedia.io