Is there really a reason, for example, for there to be the distinction of “magazine” and “community”? When you’re federating, the same features should be called the same, if close enough. That way everyone can talk with everyone about stuff and we all immediately understand each other.
Would also alleviate confusion for any new adopters.
^I’m pretty sure this is going to be impossible though, since each sides egos will likely get in the way :D^
Not really. A magazine is a collection of articles that all are about a certain topic. It is not that hard of a concept to grasp
Plus: The polish dev called his platform kbin = karabin = rifle, the contents of a rifle are stored in a magazyn = magazine. I actually would have loved if the dev had called threads “bullets” / pocisk to keep going with the theme.
I am more confused with the upvote and down vote buttons on kbin: the upvote is actually favorite, the equivalent to reddits upvote is boost, the downvote seems not to have a real function besides counting the number.
TIL… I’ve been using the upvote the same as I did with reddit.
I’ve not been able to wrap my head around reputation points either. I’ve made several comments, a couple of posts, and my reputation has gone from 0 to -1 to +1 to 0 over the course of the week I’ve been here.
Right now, boosts increase reputation and downvotes (“reduces”) decrease reputation. From what I’ve heard, this is a mistake from when boosts and upvotes (“favorites”) were switched in some way that I don’t really understand. Upvotes should be the thing that increases karma, and the fact that they aren’t is a bug. The kbin developer has mentioned plans to fix that.
AFAIK it’s from when Kbin and Lemmy started federating, Lemmy upvotes and Kbin favourites were using the same system, while Kbin boosts weren’t used on Lemmy at all. So Kbin quickly swapped them around but hasn’t yet properly fixed and rebranded the UI interactions.
I heard boost is +1 reputation and down vote is -1. Kinda wack if you ask me.
As far as I know that‘s because earlier in development the boost actually was the upvote, but now it‘s as you‘d expect it coming from Reddit
But I think the reputation system just hasn‘t been adapted to this yet
I‘ve just heard that from someone else around here, so take it with a grain of salt
The boost also apparently sends the post out to your subscribers, whereas the upvote does not.
a different persons polish INSTANCE is called karabin. Ernest named this Kbin in reference to linux sbin and magazines in reference to retro video game magazines. dont spread this fake pro gun stuff about ernest please
@minnieo Oh, sorry. I just read it somewhere in a comment and it made sense. Since there is no official FAQ or help page that explains it, I just accepted it as truth.
@Azzu
mhhm, wonder if it would be possible to make a gresemonkey script that unifies everything across the platform.
Including switching the boost and favorite position. The only issue would be the url staying the same and having the /c/ or /m/ folder