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Just wonking about on the internet... oh look, a bee.

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Love this video. Had me properly chuckling at points.

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When you login initially it offers to follow all your Instagram follows. Even if they've never logged in. Its creating shadow accounts for all of them.

When they login initially they find they already have a bunch of followers.

So it's not all of Instagram. It's just all the people who've tried it + all the people they tried to follow.

OC Assuming boost stays as some sort of a super-upvote/share combo alongside regular up/downvote buttons, here's a UI idea on how to merge it into one unified voting system. App animation + web block mockup

I heard that votes have been changed to behave closer to how people would expect, and boost is staying here as well. So I had an idea how to bring it all together in the interface....

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I like the overal effect but it's hiding the true nature of boosting.

Boosting shares a piece of content with your followers. Favouriting does not. Kbin does not yet contain a follower feed, but it is planned. This is what that looks like on Mastodon:

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Secondary? The boosting of a post is secondary to the... boosting?

I'd be down with the use of a reblog/retweet icon. It's ubiquitous enough that a majority of people would understand it.

EDIT. Parent was edited. I agree the upvote is the "side effect".

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There was a sneaky edit. I believe "upvote" was added.

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I just bought an actual domain and use that 😅

As an added bonus, letsencrypt works with no effort.

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Not really suspicion at this point. They are proveably 403 rejecting requests from the KBin useragent. You have the letters "kbinbot" anywhere in your useragent (case insensitive) you ain't getting content.

As a bonus they're still sending out stuff to instances though. But since KBin can't then resolve it it amounts to a DoS attack as the messages just build up in KBin retry queues.

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A number of kbin instances already have. But not .social - which is obviously the largest instance.

Aggravatingly .ml users can browse and interact with kbin magazines just fine as we let them in. It's very much a bad faith thing at this point.

ReallyKinda, to kbinMeta

I found the neat visual customization options (color, rounded corners, etc) but the changes don’t seem to stick! Is this a me thing or kbin thing?

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@ReallyKinda It uses cookies and so is per-browser - but they are retained for a long time. I've not seen them disappear.

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