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 :)
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.
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.
Apparently that extends to links from our notifications area too, b/c I had a hell of a time getting to see your reply. Maybe the number of pages expanded since then or something, but I had to really hunt for it. Oh well, still better than Reddit argumentative trolling!:-P
Word. I'm on Lemmy mainly and its notification system is actually really great, it usually pops up right in your screen with a little preview of the reply and you can just click it.
Kbin I just started figuring out today and I've also been having a hell of a time navigating that interface. There's a lot to like, for instance I love that you can see the user who downvoted any comment on kbin, and the reputation system is also cool.
But the ability to actually find content so that you can interact is pretty tricky. I think Lemmy makes it a bit easier because you can poke around your home instance first to get the hang of things, before heading out into the larger threadiverse.
That's good to know. I think both are improving technologically so hopefully even as Lemmy pulls ahead, kbin.social won't be as far behind in the future.
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!:-)
I have been using KBIN since yesterday and Lemmy since the beginning of June. I was completely convinced that the Up Arrow was an Upvote until i saw this post. What kind of bonkers design decision was this? I know that Kbin wants to differentiate itself from Reddit, but this is really counterintuitive.
What is the up arrow then if not an upvote? I'm on Lemmy Jerboa so the available up arrow (I'm from Beehaw so no downvotes) seems like an upvote to me.
I wonder if the fediverse would be easier for people if we brought back forum-style comment signatures... For example, I'm on Lemmy using the Jerboa Android app so everything will look different compared to what you're doing on KBIN.
Might be a super cool way to show new users the vast diversity of access experiences possible if there were a tiny automatic darker coloured line in the comment subscript showing what access point/app the poster was using when they made their comment. It would also help new people not be as confused because people wouldn't think that certain design features are available when they are talking about a different version of the fediverse/app. For example, apparently Mastodon allows users to interact with Lemmy but Lemmy users can't go on Mastodon (yet...?). I really like the popular guy who always makes it clear that he is posting on Lemmy from Mastodon - it was an incredibly inspiring thing to learn about the fediverse and its possibilities.
Am on it ! Been upvoting from the moment I landed here. So glad to witness and contribute to a watershed moment in the history of reddit and the fediverse!
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.
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