The apps have all gone offline, welcome aboard to all the other refugees, fuck /u/spez!
Hell yeah
Fuck /u/spez, and more importantly, welcome to everyone coming in today. It’s been amazing watching the growth of kbin, and I’m super thankful for the developers who have kept me connected to my communities - first Christian, now Ernest. I’ve never been in on the ground floor of anything and this has been absolutely wild.
Kinda mad I didn’t grab a short handle while I could, but I wasn’t thinking and just used the same as I had on Reddit. sigh
Could always make your own instance or choose a smaller one and sign up with a short handle there 😉
True! 😁
FUCK SPEZ!!!
Funnily enough, boost for reddit is the last one holding out and closes after today. I was really confused by your title hahah
Fuck Spez
Somehow Joey for Reddit seems to still be working???
Is it supposed to shut down as well? The devs might just be waiting till the last moment to revoke the API key if it is.
Not sure! There hasn’t been any communication between the dev and userbase for quite some time
Is it still working?
Am I missing something? My not-yet-updated Infinity for Android app still loads Reddit.
Possibly still works for some
I joined the club as well, deleted my Reddit account!
Fediverse is the future!
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
This was Mastodon for me (from Twitter). Now I’m all over the Fediverse. Wasn’t even a Reddit user but am enjoying kbin/lemmy
Fuck 'em
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.
Is PowerDeleteSuite working since the API change? I would like to edit all of my comments but didn’t get round to it before the change.
No idea. Give it a try and report back? It’s easy to use, shouldn’t take too long to find out :)
deleted my account with reason: fuck u/spez
Fuck spez, amen. I’m actually really impressed by how good Lemmy is working given that it is still a newer platform. Big fan of FOSS, so that’s a huge plus for me as well!
I will be donating to third-party apps and instances to help support this lovely thing we have going on here.
Stay beautiful, y’all!
Anyone coming from Apollo, I highly recommend wefwef. It’s impressively close given how short it’s been in development.
Also fuck spez
Thanks for the recommendation! There’s so many apps in the works, I love it. I have a whole folder lol. I’ve found Thunder and Mlem to be the most overall functional so far but I’m definitely gonna check out wefwef.
I encourage everyone to go see what’s out there as far as third party apps. Fuck it, try them all!
edit: wow you weren’t kidding! it really feels extremely similar to apollo while managing to be a web app?? pretty impressive. although i’d prefer a native version…
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 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
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.
It only doesn’t count as an upvote as far as reputation is concerned, upvotes are still upvotes in determining post ranking.
Not on kbin they aren’t. The only thing that drives the ranking currently is boost. I think they are working on fixing that though.
Thank you. I was wondering.
@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.
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
thanks, very good info worded nicely!
@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 :)
This is awful. It’s confusing.
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.
Lol, the developer has acknowledged it doesn’t make sense at the moment and it will be changed.
Thank goodness for that at least. It can’t come soon enough
I’ve read it’s a work in progress and may be changed at some point to be consistent across the Fediverse. Poor guy is slammed with feature requests and bug reports with Kbin.
It’ll work itself out eventually. Kbin is still super new. Ernest is hard at work every day
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
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?!
What’s the conversion to Stanley nickels?
0.69
Kbin is basically still in alpha. They’re fixing stuff like this. It’ll be fixed soon.
Interestingly enough, boost for reddit app is still working… For now
The Infinity app is still working as well. My Slide app is not.
