Unfortunately the whole voting and reputation system of any social media site needs to be very carefully managed with lots of attention to how bad actors could game it, and I agree it's certainly not something Ernest should be fiddling and tweaking with while growth is so crazy, but I foresee at least one massive overhaul of the system in the future. Thanks for the link, I'm having a look through it now.
Oof. It feels like every new social media platform insists on replicating the mistakes of their predecessors. You'd think by now there would be an established body of design patterns for social media. This looks like it might be relevant, even though it's quite old now.
edit: it's also interesting that only downvotes count for "reputation points", so anyone who raises their heads above the parapet in a contentious thread is at risk of instantly having a negative reputation [edit 2: QED]. I have no idea what effect that will have though...
Or they could just charge all users the same amount. An amount that happens to be exactly what they want to charge this new groups of customers and is much more than anyone ever considered this data was worth until a few months back. Like they’re doing.
Haha, yes there is a problem with a bunch of geeks excitedly telling new users about geeky stuff like that interoperability stuff that will genuinely not do anything for most of them today.
“Lemmy/kbin is a replacement for Reddit and it doesn’t matter which you choose right now!” is all newbies need to be told.
Sure the other features mean that some incredible functionality will be built in the future that we didn’t even know we wanted, but most people are only concerned about getting off Reddit right now.
Haha, yes there is a problem with a bunch of geeks excitedly telling new users about geeky stuff like that interoperability stuff that will genuinely not do anything for most of them today.
“Lemmy/kbin is a replacement for Reddit and it doesn’t matter which you choose right now!” is all newbies need to be told.
Sure the other features mean that some incredible functionality will be built in the future that we didn’t even know we wanted, but most people are only concerned about getting off Reddit right now.
Yeah, I feel like one of those always online people now constantly having to flip between screens and work out who’s replying to what where. It’s kinda fun to be part of the buzz right now but I’ll be very happy when it all settles down a bit.
That won’t happen. The high API prices are there to fleece the AI bros desperate for training data for their new models.
What might happen is that they might offer some limited concessions to some devs under some conditions for some period of time in the hope that this gets misreported as “Reddit says okay to devs” and the fuss dies down despite nothing having changed in the long run.
Set up and moderate a community here. You’ll get to interact with lots of interesting people and always have some exciting new challenges waiting in your inbox, though of course the downside is that you might be overwhelmed with praise for your tireless efforts.
Thanks for the update, it’s very welcome as a new user!
Have you published anywhere a something like a vision statement or a roadmap that would help me understand how kbin differs from Lemmy and how those differences might will change in the future?