Im joining in on the reddit ditching thing, and was kinda worried at first that i wouldnt be able to like use it the way i did reddit as it feels like a whole new place, but after engaging with posts and people and actually being a part of lemmy rather than being lurk mode all the time i was pleasantly surprised with how easy it is to become a member of the community, theres a reasonable amount of subs (or whatever the other word for em is) that fit my interests, enough linux content and shitposting for my liking, and the overall random posts made by people equally fed up with Leddit. (also i admit i used reddit a little cus there was this post on the fedora sub showing how to fix a sound issue i been having after a recent update)
One thing that sticks out to me is that Lemmy-upvotes show up as “Favourites” on kbin, but upvotes on kbin don’t show up on lemmy at all, as far as I can see.
That’s because they’re different things in the fediverse.
Lemmy upvotes are mapped to ActivityPub upvotes
Kbin upvotes are mapped to ActivityPub boosts (basically a retweet in twitter language)
This also means that Kbin users have to be much more careful with what they “upvote” as that causes the post/comment to be shown to everyone that follows them in the wider fediverse. They are looking to change this if I recall correctly, and there’s a lot of communication between the devs of Lemmy and Kbin on how to approach both this issue, and unifying their API system so apps can work for both.
@Barbarian
I think kbin is changing its voting system to match lemmy’s so this isn’t relevant anymore, but kbin users don’t have to be much more careful. Kbin users should use kbin the way that makes sense and fediverse developers should handle how protocol things are interpreted.
For years, there have been mandates for users to change their behavior to deal with weird interoperability issues between software (mostly in how mastodon handles things from other software). The way to solve these issues is for the various fediverse vendors to work on proper interoperability not force users through weird hoops.
@bruhsoulz @madjo
I dropped kbin when I saw that they were using some Google infrastructure and scripts. I think it’s a good opportunity to degoogle as well.
Ah I was wondering why so many posts have no up/down votes and where those favourites are coming from. Thanks for the explanation!
I feel indeed that those two should be switched. It makes more sense to have the ‘favourites’ be boosts instead of the upvotes. I wonder what the downvote is mapped to :)
According to its github page, kbin is still in beta stage, and some features are still missing, but it’s under active development.