On Reddit and it’s federated rivals, Lemmy and kbin (www.jayeless.net)

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As you may have heard, Reddit’s decided to pull a Twitter and start charging an extortionate amount of money for access to their previously-free API, in order to drive third-party clients like Apollo and RIF into extinction. Under Reddit’s proposed pricing, …

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[-] fr0g@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

However, Kbin maps upvotes to boosts, and displays “favourites” (which include Lemmy upvotes) separately.

Does anyone know if that applies for both threads and replies? I think it make some sense for threads. Would get a bit annoying though if you followed some kbin account on mastodon or similar and every single upvote for every single reply gets boosted.

[-] Kichae@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

I think it's both. The dev says it's something he's experimenting with - kbin is very early in development - and who knows if that will stick or not.

[-] Generic-Disposable@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Where can I get help with kbin? Is there a magazine for support?

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