I switched instances just so I could be on one that had downvotes because I passionately believe downvotes give immediate power to of self moderation to the users. However, I’m very light on downvoting. I only downvotevote stuff like the OP was talking about or if something is technically incorrect and damaging to a thread. But again I’m very light on downvoting, as I was on Reddit before. I usually ignore something that I simply don’t agree with or think is too silly, etc.

Yeah, I know. Some of those terms come from Mastodon (the Twitter alt). In Mastodon, you can boost posts (tweets) which is akin to a retweet (without quoting). And a Favorite is similar to liking a tweet, although Mastodon makes it so that you can see all your favorites in a list, which is nice.

How those operations function on a Lemmy instance, I have no idea. From what I remember Kbin was supposed to blend these together so you could use your one Kbin account to check out Lemmy communities and Mastodon posts in one spot?

The whole magazine thing, yeah, just not needed in my opinion - call it communities.

OMG I love Mastodon and my instance (mas.to). Left Twitter for Mas about 8 months ago - I love following hashtags even more than people. There’s some great gems to follow though. For both Twitter, and now Reddit, I left for Fedi and just never went back. Facebook was another cold turkey quitting, no alternative for that one, that was years ago now.

Nope, I should’ve caught that, thank you. I was like wow I’m in tech but you learn new terms every day. Lol

Kbin is out of stock software?

(I don’t know what OOS means and at this point I’m too afraid to ask)

No affiliation to Christian Selig or the Apollo app that I’ve read. I’ve been on a couple of Lemmy instances and Kbin.social for about four weeks now (a couple of days after Christian posted about the API charges) and always found content and activity was much greater on Lemmy. All my Lemmy instances have about the same Active/Top listings (I didn’t use Hot sorting in Reddit and not using it with Lemmy, it’s not how I like to view).

I was drawn to the interface of Kbin like everyone else, but I quickly realized that the interface was buggy and clunky and not ready for prime time. It very well may perfect everything it is aiming to achieve. It appears they’re trying to make it easy for users to interact with Mastodon style servers and Lemmy style servers, and joining the features of both worlds. That sounds pretty cool if it can be done right. But I want my votes to count, I want it to be easy to cross post or boost (these are different) and yes I’d love to interact with Mastodon also but only if those other things work correctly, that’s just how I like to get into my threads and conversations while consuming posts.

Yeah, I think it’s a great idea for larger groups or corporations.

Aye!

Believe it or not New York City has some of the best water in the state if not the country. I live outside of the city, and while I can drink from the tap, we prefer to use a filtered water pitcher, but we don’t boil first.

It seems to run on some form of electricity!

Look, I’ve quit Reddit because fuck spez, and now have confirmation bias that needs answering. Just…let me have this.

Try this: /c/askkbin@kbin.social

Wow, these look awesome! Thank you for this!

Yeah, but dick-pics…safe?

Holy shit, what a dumpster fire