The apps have all gone offline, welcome aboard to all the other refugees, fuck /u/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?
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!
What’s the conversion to Stanley nickels?
0.69
Lol, the developer has acknowledged it doesn’t make sense at the moment and it will be changed.
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 :)
From what I can see the upvote / downvote both work as you’d expect now (as in upvoting curates content). There was apparently a period of time where ‘boost’ was the upvote mechanic but that’s been changed
@Nugget_in_biscuit
@zcd @Calcharger @BingGoose Boost is 2x the reputation.You’re like, one week late on that buddy boy
@Calcharger better late than never.
oh haha my bad you’re a dev, thank you for the info!
Sorry I just thought you were a rando haha
@Calcharger Even if I was not a kbin developer, I hope we can all respect each other :)
thanks, very good info worded nicely!
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.
@AnonTwo @ernest is aware of the issue: https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues/80
Hopefully this will be changed soon, as the current system is confusing can be off-putting.
fuck /u/spez
how can i as a simple user contribute to the growth of kbin?Post, comment, boost, vote?
Deleted my Reddit account today. 12 years I was a user. No more.
Deleted my account of 11 years just now as well after verifying PowerDeleteSuite didn’t miss anything the past few days. I thought this would be my hardest non-federated social media account to delete, since it was the last one standing and the one I used most. After what I’ve seen this month, it’s an easy delete. My time there is done.
deleted my account with reason: fuck u/spez
FUCK REDDIT. FUCK SPEZ.
fuck u/spez
Quite enjoying the Kbin experience after 11 years of reddit. I thought it would be harder to switch.
When RIF died today a part of me died. But with death comes rebirth, and here we are. Forcibly pushed out of our comfort zones and into the brave new world of the fediverse. I have a feeling I will look upon this day with the same joy and reverence as the day my friend download rif on my phone for me all those years ago. It felt weird at first then became something I used almost every day. I have a feeling the same will happen here. We’re all about to create something beautiful. Oh yeah and fuck spez
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Rif?
im boosting this as well…
do i need to scroll to the end of the page just to reply a post?
For now, yes. Fuck u/spez
Yes, the intent is to encourage reading comments before commenting.
Sorry didn’t read that. ;P
