cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/26769543
Just a friendly welcome post
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2 monthsNo sorry, we just lost old Tommy, and nobody knows if Violet survived last Friday night.
- phanto@lemmy.caEnglish2 months
As a Canadian on Lemmy, I keep running in to the same couple of people… Hi, lady from Calgary, and guy from Ottawa! Nice to see you again!
- meta4@retrolemmy.comEnglish2 months
Well, what am I supposed to label you as? The lady got Calgary and the guy got Ottawa. Are you claiming all of Canada? Making your label “Guy from the entirety of Canada”
- 2 months
Henceforth, you shall be known as the guy not from Yukon.
- phanto@lemmy.caEnglish2 months
I went to high school with a guy we called Yukon Jan. (Jan is pronounced Yawn.) I wonder how he’s doing…
- NotSteve_@lemmy.caEnglish2 months
I don’t know if you mean me but I’m a guy from Ottawa and it’s nice to see you too!
I’d argue that one of the main issues with the Fediverse is mostly just that interaction counts don’t federate properly. Mastodon made some good steps there recently, but it’s still not there Fediverse-wide.
My Lemmy client, for instance, says this post only has 12 comments and 71 upvotes, but if you look at it on the instance it was posted on, it’s actually much more. This, of course, makes the Fediverse appear to be much less popular than it actually is. Which scares away new users immensely.
That’s likely an Mbin issue. Ernst, the creator of the original product Kbin before it got forked and taken over as Mbin, made a confusing decision to have both upvotes and boosts together, and not just on the microblog (Mastodon) side with magazines but even side-by-side also on the Threadiverse with communities. So when you press the “upvote”… I forget which action even occurs - upvoting vs. boosting. Sorting by votes also gets very wonky.
And yes, all those weird design decisions very much scare people away from Mbin: the largest Mbin instance has only <500 active accounts and all Mbin instances combined have mere hundreds of users. For comparison, the flagship PieFed instance has >1k users, the NSFW one has twice that, and Lemmy.world alone has >13k!!!
- Zarobi@aussie.zoneEnglish2 months
Honestly I have no idea how all this works, it seems very confusing. But luckily I don’t need to understand it to use it lol. I just picked the Australia zone because I live there
But which upvote type - boosts or votes? Why do boosts exist at all then, if they don’t “boost” anything? I thought I remembered (granted it’s been a couple of years since I migrated from Reddit to kbin.social) that it was boosts, and it was upvotes that existed but were irrelevant? (If so, but not anymore, then how and why was that changed?)
Not that you need to answer every one of these - I’m just sharing my confusion, which many people seem to also share.
- 2 months
Upvotes are what lemmy posts are supposed to be ranked by, posts with more upvotes are ranked on the trending pages. While boosts like on Mastodon are for federation, boosting a post pushes it from one instance/network to other instances/networks – if the booster is one another instance/network.
Thank you for the explanation. That seems all the more confusing then to see boosts done for threaded posts in communities, like is that even comparable to microblog emissions or whatever they are called in magazines, or is it a whole other thing.
People want - and demand - simplicity, or else they seek it out even at the expense of remaining on corporate social media.
- 2 months
Upvotes are what lemmy posts are supposed to be ranked by, posts with more upvotes are ranked on the trending pages. While boosts like on Mastodon are for federation, boosting a post pushes it from one instance/network to other instances/networks – if the booster is one another instance/network.
Thank you for the explanation. That seems all the more confusing then to see boosts done for threaded posts in communities, like is that even comparable to microblog emissions or whatever they are called in magazines, or is it a whole other thing.
People want - and demand - simplicity, or else they seek it out even at the expense of remaining on corporate social media.
But which upvote type - boosts or votes? Why do boosts exist at all then, if they don’t “boost” anything? I thought I remembered (granted it’s been a couple of years since I migrated from Reddit to kbin.social) that it was boosts, and it was upvotes that existed but were irrelevant? (If so, but not anymore, then how and why was that changed?)
Not that you need to answer every one of these - I’m just sharing my confusion, which many people seem to also share.
- 2 months
Upvotes are what lemmy posts are supposed to be ranked by, posts with more upvotes are ranked on the trending pages. While boosts like on Mastodon are for federation, boosting a post pushes it from one instance/network to other instances/networks – if the booster is one another instance/network.
Thank you for the explanation. That seems all the more confusing then to see boosts done for threaded posts in communities, like is that even comparable to microblog emissions or whatever they are called in magazines, or is it a whole other thing.
People want - and demand - simplicity, or else they seek it out even at the expense of remaining on corporate social media.
- 2 months
Upvotes are what lemmy posts are supposed to be ranked by, posts with more upvotes are ranked on the trending pages. While boosts like on Mastodon are for federation, boosting a post pushes it from one instance/network to other instances/networks – if the booster is one another instance/network.
Thank you for the explanation. That seems all the more confusing then to see boosts done for threaded posts in communities, like is that even comparable to microblog emissions or whatever they are called in magazines, or is it a whole other thing.
People want - and demand - simplicity, or else they seek it out even at the expense of remaining on corporate social media.
Some instances intentionally filter out votes such as non-humans, fuckin nazis, and also fuckin Tankies, so I expect at least a little variance in numbers.
Some instances also filter out trolls. Oddly enough, not all do that though…
Oh! Another big one would be Threads users. Some instances completely block FaceBook Threads.
Yes, although actually I am not aware of any instances that have NOT done this, even like a year or more before it needed done.
- SnarkoPolo@lemmy.worldEnglish2 months
If it’s any consolation, there are more of us than there were at Pussolini’s “state fair.”
- Regular Water@lemmy.eco.brEnglish2 months
“Most of us don’t usually post, but the one who does carry the entertainment for us, feel free to look wherever you like.”
- lacethespace@sh.itjust.worksEnglish2 months
I enjoyed this so much more as it was at 24 upvotes when I came upon it. Just barely qualifies for plural of dozen.
- Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish2 months
John, Mike, Greg, Philip, Crystal, and I try. Looking for six more to make this someone accurate. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- 2 months
@FoxtrotDeltaTango there’s actually dozens more - but just like on reddit, they are lurkers 😆
- BlackLaZoR@lemmy.worldEnglish2 months
Also if you are capitalism supporter, angry socialists will down vote you to oblivion. You’re either with them or you’re witch to be hunted and burned on stake
- TORFdot0@lemmy.worldEnglish2 months
Votes don’t do anything on the fediverse so don’t be afraid to speak your mind. If you get downvoted, nobody really cares. I’d rather be downvoted than have my post sit at 1 score with no replies. At least then I know people bothered to read it.
