AnonTwo

mxcory, 9 months ago

You can enable the old fan curve. It is somewhere in the settings. Sorry I can’t remember exactly where.

darq, 9 months ago

The US uses a First-Past-The-Post voting system. Third parties are non-viable in such a system. Mathematically.

That is why you have this inane conversation every four years. Because any progressive third-party candidate becomes a "spoiler" for the Democrats, rather than forcing coalitions and compromises, as it should in an actual functional democracy. So every four years we get to hear how leftists should "compromise" by completely giving up their entire position to support a neoliberal candidate because to do otherwise allows the Republicans to continue to hurt women and minorities.

Nothing will fundamentally change until the voting system changes. So of course neither political party is especially motivated to change it.

MostlyBirds, 10 months ago

If you don’t want to hear about America being bad, don’t go to the same places as people who live in reality.

metaStatic, 10 months ago

lossless is great but ignorance is bliss.

anyone who thinks they can tell the difference between 320 and lossless is lying to themselves because they spent way too much on a sound system.

hackitfast, 10 months ago

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.

Calcharger, 10 months ago

We boost here

fishos, 10 months ago

Goodnight, sweet prince.

NextGenHen, 10 months ago

Quite enjoying the Kbin experience after 11 years of reddit. I thought it would be harder to switch.

BingGoose, 10 months ago

Sorry if this is a dumb question, but what's the difference between boosting and hitting the upvote/downvote looking buttons?

drinkleadsoup, 10 months ago

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.

Nugget_in_biscuit, 10 months ago

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

Rvd2k4, 10 months ago

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.

strangehill2dieon, 10 months ago

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

TheDeadGuy, 10 months ago

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

TheTheMeet, 10 months ago

im boosting this as well..

do i need to scroll to the end of the page just to reply a post?

rolfthedog, 10 months ago

For now, yes. Fuck u/spez

andemira, 10 months ago

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.

atocci, 10 months ago

It only doesn't count as an upvote as far as reputation is concerned, upvotes are still upvotes in determining post ranking.

Prouvaire, 10 months ago

@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.