Copy/pasted from a previous response I wrote regarding this topic. I hope it helps:

When you follow a given account on #Mastodon with your #kbin account, posts from that account will be #federated here. If they use #hashtags, then posts they write will be federated into #magazines here based on permitted tags chosen by magazine moderators which show up in the #microblogging section of a magazine. AFAIK, posts that don’t get sorted into a particular magazine will be sent to @random. In order to search for magazines/communities, you can enter linux@lemmy.world into the search bar for example.

Attached below is some helpful information.
https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/129425/Can-some-one-explain-how-the-microblog-feature-works#entry-comment-507634

I liked the name #kbin more than #lemmy, and the integration of #microblogging is a feature I appreciate. IME, lemmy also tends to attract more memes and shitposts, which generally turn me off.

I like the forum-style posts and #microblogging integration. The local community has also been pleasant to engage with so far. I’ve been running two magazines and lately have been seeing some federated Mastodon posts show up in one of the magazines I run. It’s nice to have an area akin to a daily discussion thread which lets me engage with the different parts of the #fediverse.

Yeah, I believe there’s still a lot I can learn from using LM. I’m interested in other distros/DEs, but I’m saving that for later.

Linux Mint Cinnamon. It’s been good, no complaints. Very helpful for easing into Linux by having a GUI, and I’ve been learning CLI and bash scripting.

Live your best life

This is really interesting, thanks for the tip. I’m gonna look into this and see how I can help.