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

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      1 year ago

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

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            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.

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            1 year ago

            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 :)

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            1 year ago

            @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.

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        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.

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        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