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

    • BingGoose
      1•2 years ago

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

      • Nugget_in_biscuit
        2•2 years ago

        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

          • harmonea
            2•2 years ago

            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.

          • Kill_joy
            1•2 years 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 :)

          • Mostly_Harmless
            0•2 years 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.

      • AnonTwo
        2•2 years 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
        0•2 years 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

      • kbiner689
        1•2 years ago

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

  • NextGenHen
    2•2 years ago

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

  • 34
    0•2 years ago

    Anyone have the numbers of today’s new users for any of the kbin or Lemmy instances?

    • Voyajer
      0•2 years ago

      2.1k new kbin.social accounts made in the past 72 hours.

      1.4k new lemmy.world accounts made in the past 72 hours.

        • Mysteriarch ☀️
          0•2 years ago

          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!