The apps have all gone offline, welcome aboard to all the other refugees, fuck /u/spez!
FUCK REDDIT. FUCK SPEZ.
We boost here
Sorry if this is a dumb question, but what’s the difference between boosting and hitting the upvote/downvote looking buttons?
The upvote doesn’t represent an upvote on Kbin, so if you get a normal flow of upvotes/downvotes and no boosts, you’ll have a negative reputation.
reputation doesn’t actually do anything, of course, but it is there.
Boost is a kbin upvote, while upvote is a Lemmy upvote. So if you want promote some good content on kbin, you have to use boost
This is awful. It’s confusing.
This is from the various services trying to talk to each other in ways they weren’t originally designed to do, really. Our “upvote” is a mastodon “favorite” (like) while our “boost” is functionally a retweet/reblog. Kbin tries to bridge the gap between threaded content and microblogging, and it gets about 90% of the way there; all it really needs to do is change it so that upvotes are the ones that contribute to reputation instead of boosts, which are functionally useless outside a fully microblog-style environment.
I just gave you a Boost and a Favourite!
And an upvote?!
It is currently broken which is why it functions in such a terrible way. A fix has been made, but not yet pushed to live. Hold tight :)
There’s definitely room for improvement, but I like what I see so far and don’t have a problem learning a new paradigm. I’m sure that as the platform matures things will become more consistent.
100% agreed on all points.
Boost is like retweeting something, you can have followers in the fediverse. Boosting makes something more visible to everyone, so you upvote/downvote things you personally like/dislike and boost things you think your followers/everyone would like
Think of this place as a cross between email, Twitter and reddit. All communities can interact with each other and are independent
Interestingly enough, boost for reddit app is still working… For now
The Infinity app is still working as well. My Slide app is not.
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Quite enjoying the Kbin experience after 11 years of reddit. I thought it would be harder to switch.
Anyone have the numbers of today’s new users for any of the kbin or Lemmy instances?
2.1k new kbin.social accounts made in the past 72 hours.
1.4k new lemmy.world accounts made in the past 72 hours.
Amazing! Long live the fediverse. Fuck Reddit!
Even better would be if they spread out over more instances instead ofself-centralising on a few ‘flagship’ instances. But no judgement, it’s understandable; just keep in mind you can always move to another and connect with the same communities!
Open to suggestions chief. I know nothing about this brave new world.
