The apps have all gone offline, welcome aboard to all the other refugees, fuck /u/spez!
Goodnight, sweet prince.
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
thanks, very good info worded nicely!
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.
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
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.
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.
@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 :)
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.
@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.
Thank you. I was wondering.
Interestingly enough, boost for reddit app is still working… For now
The Infinity app is still working as well. My Slide app is not.
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
Quite enjoying the Kbin experience after 11 years of reddit. I thought it would be harder to switch.
I’m happier here. I feel like I’m surrounded by intelligent people again. The reddit userbase had become hot garbage during the past 5 or so years.
Same for me. I feel like the reason kbin in particular feels so much like coming back to a long lost home is because it appeals to the old guard of reddit, people with 10+ year accounts who really just wanted an aggregated collection of forums for niche interests. Reddit kept getting shittier as that format got diluted and they tried to push it towards being mainstream social media.
Been a RiF user for 12 years. Never thought I’d see the day I’d purge my reddit account and not look back. But here we are! Glad to be here with you all, here’s to our new communities.
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!
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?
Rip Apollo
Updoots to the left
Le bacon narwhals at midnightFuck u/spez
FUCK SPEZ!!!
FUCK REDDIT. 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 reddit’s board, fuck /u/spez and his lackeys.
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
Just like in real life. Looks like I missed this party.
Surprise you motorboatin SOB, you just got boosted!
Aw thanks. I repaid the kindness 🍻
