My biggest issue right now is the difficulty finding communities in remote instances. Searching for !community doesn’t work and I’ve heard you’re supposed to paste the entire web adress but that doesn’t seem to work either. Puzzling since it’s so simple on Lemmy.
So, if the community is already present (someone has subscribed already) on your kbin instance, when you click magazines it will be there and typing part of the name will filter the list and make it show.
If the community is not yet on your instance, you click the search button at the top of the kbin screen and in that search box type the whole [email protected] and it should find it and auto subscribe you to it. From then on it should be in the list above.
I agree this was less than intuitive and when I first setup my instance I really did wonder why I couldn't find anything to subscribe to.
In terms of terminology. I think it's because kbin is trying to place itself as a halfway house between the threadiverse and microblogging. There's going to be a learning curve and things are constantly changing.
Coelacanth