I'd like to encourage people on the fediverse to comment/upvote/post more than when reddit
If you are usually a reddit lurker and are on here, it would be cool if you can try and engage with communities for a bit, just to try and get the ball rolling :)
I'd like to point out that the upvote/downvote buttons here on kbin don't behave like you are used to on reddit they are a little different.
Up arrow = Upvote on Reddit and Favourite on Kbin - This is very different to reddit
Down Arrow = Downvote on Reddit and Reduce on Kbin
Boost (at bottom) = On kbin this is the equivalent to a reddit upvote.
It kinda confused me when I looked at my profile the other day and my reputation was -2
I'd only made one single post and it had 17 "upvotes" and 2 "downvotes" so the -2 confused me a bit. That's when I realised the uparrow was not an upvote and didn't contribute to reputation. I suspect many others don't understand this either based on the interractions with my other post.
Edit: To be clear while "fake internet points" are not overly important to me. "Reputation" or similar do give me an indication if I am contributing to a community in a positive and productive manner.
Seeing -2 made me think "Who have I pissed off?" Till I realised that "Favourites" don't contribute to reputation.
Reddit lurker checking in. I have a total of 2 posts and 15 comments in 13 years of using reddit. Not sure about using kbin or one of the smaller lemmy instances, but I'm here for now.
Welcome. It’s good to know that your comments won’t get deeply buried in a thread that was posted 15 min ago. It’s still a small community so there’s a great chance of good interaction (at least in my experience using it for a few days now).
Exactly. Maybe I'm sounding awfully optimistic, but I actually enjoy the slow pace here. Posts can be 1 week old and there are still comments popping up after a while. It also makes interactions more meaningful in a way.
I used to comment quite a bit on reddit, but that was usually to get into technical discussions or political arguments. So far there hasn't been much technical content for me to sink my teeth into and I have yet to run into posts or comments calling for my extermination so I haven't felt compelled to say anything. I'm glad that people here are nice, but I miss answering questions about electric circuits, embedded systems, etc.
Here's hoping that some day soon when people can't figure out why their op-amp is driven into saturation they don't post about it on reddit first.
Quality over quantity - you are the kind of content creator we need. Do as you please ofc, but fwiw I hope you stay somewhere on the federiverse. I may never need your particular brand of comment, but people like you are what will make or break this place: memes are fun & all, but when you NEED help and you GET said help, that's when you REMEMBER where you got it!:-)
Habitual lurker checking in. On kbin and loving the difference in vibe and waiting patiently for the migration to boost the communities I used to frequent.
I'm trying to boost and upvote as I scroll. I've feel like I've commented more here than I have in the last several years on reddit.
Tried to make a beer- themed magazine but I have no clue what I'm doing.
So I got nosey, and checked out your profile. I'm really confused by your reputation of -31. What I heard was upvotes don't count for rep, but downvotes and boosts do. Do you know, did you get some comments mass reported or something? Maybe reports count against? Maybe it's buggy with non kbin accounts? I'd suggest hitting boost on your own posts, that might help. I know the first day I was active, my rep went up, with me having like 2 upvotes, but also boosting my own posts. It seems weird that you boosting your own stuff would have a positive effect, but I think it might. I included a screen shot of your rep page, so you can make of it what you will... I'm mostly guessing. FYI comments was the only category that had any affect on your rep, all other categories were empty.
Imma boost some of your comments, and we can see if that changes anything.
Edit: So yeah, boosting counts for your rep. At this point I feel like I'm just playing with your account though. If you want me to remove all the boosts I just did, just say the word. Otherwise I'll leave them.
Thanks for asking! I've actually been inventorying my mineral collection today, trying to keep fresh content for my magazine, lol. Minerals@kbin.social Started soaking one of my specimen, to clean the rust off of it.
Now I have some French bread pizza in the oven for dinner.
That sounds like a pretty solid day! I collected minerals as a kid and recently found a handful in storage. I'd love to get back into it.
My day has been solid. I think I finally organized all my digital files, across everything I own and all services I use. I even made some proper backups. It's a massive source of stress gone so I'm planning to just relax the rest of the day. Oh, and trying to not be too jealous of you for having fresh bread to look forward to, lol.
Good job! That can be a ton of work, and rather tedious. I'm sure it feels much better having it done. I recently went through about 10 years of photos, looking to make prints. Not something I'd suggest putting off for that long, lol. Felt great after it was done though!
You are more than welcome! I need more people posting, if you have anything from your collection to add pictures of. My collection is only so big and eventually I'm going to run out of things to post, lol!
Haven't posted on Reddit since the blackout, and don't intend to. Only reason I'm still lurking is because I'm loosely keeping up on SubredditDrama, and manually deleting my comments and posts.
Developments in lemmy/kbin have been exciting and I've been focusing my time here instead of Reddit. Cake Day is the 26th. I plan on wrapping up my account then. Seems fitting after 11 years.
I’ve said it another thread but moderators need to be patient with all of the new people. I made a post trying to get some questions answered and was shit on by a mod for not knowing the rules. I couldn’t even find the sidebar at that point. If that is the attitude new users are met with when making mistakes then new contributions will be limited.
Yeah. Good point. There will be some growing pains and mistakes in posting with all the newbies, like me. I think it will be a slower growth than some Redditors will want, but I was there for over 10 years so I don't mind a little wait. I think it won't be that long and I'm already enjoying discovering different communities.
I really feel like "rules" for different magazines should be lax at first and just take out the obvious scum or completely irrelevant posts. Ease everyone in. There isn't even an actual community in most magazines yet because there's so few people. Let the people come first, then figure out the ins and outs of them.
The reason many of the rules exist on reddit is to simplify the management of a glut of users in a single community. When it's small like this, you can afford to be informal until it starts becoming a problem.
I would love to have the problem of a bunch of newbies coming here and flooding communities with questions about rules and stuff. After that happens for a while and starts to get annoying, then you start enforcing the rules a bit more.
Honestly, I enjoy conversation much better on here, people tend to be nicer, more insightful, and less likely to troll. It reminds me of old PHPBB days
Counterpoint: Lower content flow isn’t the end of the world. Even if people don’t comment, we don’t need to immediately replace all the content reddit bots have been pumping out. We can lay back and do things at our own pace.
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