Just wish there were more transparency around counts and content engagement.

I firmly believe most influencer these day were propped up with payed views and botted engagement. Not that lemmy is the same but it all feels so dirty.

  • Stamets
    7•5 days ago

    Mbin is not an app or a plugin. It is a fork which means that it took the basecode of Lemmy and repurposed it into something else. Some instances have then used Mbin, like fedia.io. It just happens to be that lemmy.world doesn’t include that function because it uses Lemmy as its base and not Mbin.

    Mbin is able to completely interact with Lemmy, mind you, so it’s not seperate in anyway other than how it works.

    • ProdigalFrogEnglish
      12•5 days ago

      Mbin is a fork of Kbin, a different independent project, not Lemmy.

      • StametsEnglish
        2•5 days ago

        My mistake, you’re right.

    • @ClinicallydepressedpoochieOP
      2•5 days ago

      So, you’re saying I have to change my instance? Which would be fine and I am already debating just that.

      • Stamets
        12•5 days ago

        If you want to see who specifically upvoted or downvoted, then yes. If you want the general numbers you can stay here.

        Personally I’ve never understood the obsession with seeing who votes for you. I post constantly and have people who follow me about downvoting me everywhere. If I was checking who was downvoting me all the time, I’d never get shit done.

        • @hypna
          1•5 days ago

          I don’t see the interest in who voted what on my stuff, but it could be interesting to do some analysis of system-wide voting behaviors. The bigger Lemmy gets the more of a problem it’s going to have with bots. People will need to create tools to identify these bots, and voting behavior seems like the primary data source.