I've had it take up to a week for a community to show up after I've searched for it.

When people go to Mastodon, Kbin, Lemmy, Firefish, Misskey, etc., they do so knowing they're going to the fediverse. When people go to Threads, most do so because they have an Instagram account.

This is my main concern.

Personally, I don't care if the fediverse grows. I just care what it grows into. The fediverse has a nice community at the moment because everybody on it made a conscious decision to be here and not somewhere else. Threads users will not have made that decision. Furthermore, they'll outnumber the rest of us enough as to have no incentive to try and fit into the preexisting community here (which isn't helped by the fact that they've already been their own isolated community for awhile).

I second all the suggestions except the currently reading/online one: in my experience, seeing "currently reading" statistics just makes dead places feel more dead. It's also not a useful statistic: it doesn't tell you how good a post is, or provide any information about the poster, or even show how popular it is (because you can't really extrapolate about the average engagement from only one datapoint). You can't do anything with the number.

You can also connect to non-kbin sites, including Lemmy and Mastodon! They all use the same protocol to be able to talk to each other.

The Kbin Usability Pack userscript adds a bookmark feature: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/469597-kbin-usability-pack

There's a userscript I'm using that provides a bookmark feature (among other things, most or all of which I think are toggleable): https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/469597-kbin-usability-pack

No built-in feature as far as I know, though.

I've been doing similar; been using Firefox, but Chrome is installed for its browser-wide automatic captioning. Not something I need often, but I rely on it for the occasional remote meeting here and there. I'm sure free automatic captioning applications exist for my operating system, but I'd have to actually test each one to see if they actually work, and it's just been so convenient keeping Google's around.

(Speaking of which, if anybody happens to have recommendations for free automatic captioning software that works on Ubuntu, I seem to be in the market...)

I'm planning on trying for three autopetters on that save at some point (one for each of my farm buildings) but we'll see how long it takes to get those...

I'm somewhere around year 8 on my community center save and still haven't found a single autopetter. Apparently I'd need to spend significantly more time in the caverns to get just one autopetter than I had to spend in them to complete the entirety of the perfection tracker. I'm looking forward to being able to buy some from joja.

I haven't gotten far enough in my joja run yet to have actually bought the membership (I'm trying to finish a couple of the community bundles) but 1) it's a whole possible path in the game, I have to play it at least once, and 2) autopetters

I'm sorry but I don't know what that emoticon means lol

If I had a lemmy account I'd help out! It looks good so far.