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The apps have all gone offline, welcome aboard to all the other refugees, fuck /u/spez!

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[–] Calcharger@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] BingGoose@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Sorry if this is a dumb question, but what's the difference between boosting and hitting the upvote/downvote looking buttons?

[–] Nugget_in_biscuit@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Brkdncr@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is awful. It’s confusing.

[–] harmonea@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] CurlyMoustache@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I just gave you a Boost and a Favourite!

[–] Mostly_Harmless@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@Brkdncr

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.

[–] Brkdncr@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

100% agreed on all points.

[–] AnonTwo@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] TheDeadGuy@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

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

[–] ilikemoney@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Interestingly enough, boost for reddit app is still working..... For now

[–] kbiner689@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

The Infinity app is still working as well. My Slide app is not.

[–] Yoscooter@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago
[–] NextGenHen@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Quite enjoying the Kbin experience after 11 years of reddit. I thought it would be harder to switch.

[–] DONTBANTHISACCOUNT@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

fuck u/spez

FUCK REDDIT. FUCK SPEZ.

[–] reflex@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The apps have all gone offline

Man, RIF still working while logged out doe! Thing is like the Energizer bunny.