The apps have all gone offline, welcome aboard to all the other refugees, fuck /u/spez!
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?
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
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.
@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.
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.
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!
I like this one: https://the-federation.info/platform/73
Good graphs to look at are: Active this month, Total Posts, and Total Comments. You can also look at these graphs on a per server basis. I’m on lemmy.ca so I’ve been following that server closely. Very happy with my local admins so far.
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