Kbin and Lemmy should come to a consensus on how to name stuff
Reddit Migration@kbin.social – 134 points – 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^
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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.