Anyone have the numbers of today's new users for any of the kbin or Lemmy instances?
Amazing! Long live the fediverse. Fuck Reddit!
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!
This site gives an idea of how Lemmy & kbin are growing.
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.
FUCK REDDIT. FUCK SPEZ.
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
On the brightside, we're going to have so many "cakeday" twins. And we'll be reminiscing of this memorable day in no time. Happy browsing and fuck spez!
We boost here
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
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.
Lol, the developer has acknowledged it doesn't make sense at the moment and it will be changed.
It'll work itself out eventually. Kbin is still super new. Ernest is hard at work every day
Kbin is basically still in alpha. They're fixing stuff like this. It'll be fixed soon.
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
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.
thanks, very good info worded nicely!
@Nugget_in_biscuit
@zcd @Calcharger @BingGoose Boost is 2x the reputation.
You're like, one week late on that buddy boy
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.
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.
Yep https://kbin.social/... :)
Thank you. I was wondering.
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
Interestingly enough, boost for reddit app is still working..... For now
Fuck /u/spez, and more importantly, welcome to everyone coming in today. It’s been amazing watching the growth of kbin, and I’m super thankful for the developers who have kept me connected to my communities - first Christian, now Ernest. I’ve never been in on the ground floor of anything and this has been absolutely wild.
Kinda mad I didn’t grab a short handle while I could, but I wasn’t thinking and just used the same as I had on Reddit. sigh
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!
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.
Deleted my Reddit account today. 12 years I was a user. No more.
Deleted my account of 11 years just now as well after verifying PowerDeleteSuite didn’t miss anything the past few days. I thought this would be my hardest non-federated social media account to delete, since it was the last one standing and the one I used most. After what I’ve seen this month, it’s an easy delete. My time there is done.
Is PowerDeleteSuite working since the API change? I would like to edit all of my comments but didn't get round to it before the change.
A fair number of people seem to be spilling out into Lemmy, kbin, squabbles and other places. Be keen to see how the growth accelerates over the next few weeks as people weigh up their options.
Memmy’s done a phenomenal job at making the Threadiverse more accessible. I bet when it comes out, tons of people will suddenly find it far easier to use Lemmy.
It's a whole new system so it's going to take a while to get used to it. There's several things behind the scenes getting improved, lots of new UI improvements pending
Problem with squabbles is that it has sole ownership. Can literally turn into reddit or Digg again.
Good to know there are a bunch of alternatives though.
Yeah a few friends have spread out, reach looking into new replacements. Kbin got my attention since it's open source and PHP based, so it's something I can jump right into and fix up issues. Lots of people working on fixing up several parts of the site to make it even better
Fuck Spez, that greedy little pigboy.
Funnily enough, boost for reddit is the last one holding out and closes after today. I was really confused by your title hahah
Fuck u/spez
In a weird way, I’m almost glad u/Spez decided to make the horrible api changes. I never would have discovered the fediverse otherwise. Personally, I also feel a lot better after quitting Reddit. Even so, fuck u/Spez for being a greedy Piece of shit.
I want to compare this to how I felt about Digg, but it’s different. Digg was a platform that was okay, but then the redesigns happened and I didn’t care about wanting to leave.there wasn’t anything there that I really cared about. I remember finding Reddit in undergrad, creating the University’s subreddit, and watching it grow. I was active on subs I cared about, topics where my passions lie. Now it’s all gone, and time to start again.
All we can do is learn from our mistakes. No more centralized social media; Fediverse or nothing.
Anyone coming from Apollo, I highly recommend wefwef. It’s impressively close given how short it’s been in development.
Also fuck spez
Thanks for the recommendation! There’s so many apps in the works, I love it. I have a whole folder lol. I’ve found Thunder and Mlem to be the most overall functional so far but I’m definitely gonna check out wefwef.
I encourage everyone to go see what’s out there as far as third party apps. Fuck it, try them all!
edit: wow you weren’t kidding! it really feels extremely similar to apollo while managing to be a web app?? pretty impressive. although i’d prefer a native version…
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
Fuck Spez
FUCK SPEZ!!!!!!!
Somehow Joey for Reddit seems to still be working???
Not sure! There hasn't been any communication between the dev and userbase for quite some time
10 years of rif down the drain. Keen to learn about the fediverse. It's very overwhelming.
fuck u/spez!
Hell yeah
Rip Apollo
Updoots to the left
Le bacon narwhals at midnight
@zcd Boosting everyone in this thread - I'm doing my part!
Am I missing something? My not-yet-updated Infinity for Android app still loads Reddit.
Greetings, fellow refugees. The road is long and weary, and many relics of ages long past adorn these hills.
fuck u/spez
thanks for using Leebra!
go to feed...
Fuck u/spez
save