tojikomori, 11 months ago

Thanks, this is a really helpful roundup of links – a lot to consider.

This comment is especially interesting. It makes me think kbin should stop translating "upvotes" and "downvotes" into Fediverse concepts, and should instead embrace the Fediverse concepts and present them directly: instead of upvote and downvote buttons we could have 🚀 (boost) and ⭐️ (favorite) buttons, perhaps with a combined score for sorting. It would mean abandoning downvotes, but it sounds like downvotes are a problem anyway.

That would give us a reputation system that makes it clear what you're doing when you boost a post or comment, but also one that won't be jarring to users of other apps and instances.