sourworm

Why do you think kbin is easier and that people should start there instead of Lemmy?

It’s meant for everyone federated through ActivityPub.

I think favorites are just recording upvotes right now and boosts work like retweeting. If anyone is following you they would get your boost.

A dehumidifier will actually add a bit of heat.

On Kbin you can view the Activity for any post and comment which shows who up voted and down voted (called favorites and reduces respectively).

Where can you turn off user avatars? I thought I had seen it before but I can’t find it now in settings. I’m not sure if it’s because I’m currently on mobile or I’m just remembering seeing it in Lemmy.

Edit: Found that option in the theme settings section which are just further down the page and not in the settings under username.
But I have avatars off and even without any style sheet modifications I’m seeing them.

The one suggestion I’ve seen as another workaround is to use ‘boost’ since there’s a spot in your profile that lists everything you’ve boosted. Of course that’s not actually the intended purpose. I think boost is supposed to be like a retweet but kbin doesn’t (currently?) really use it in any way. Although Mastodon or others might if you have followers from those platforms, not really sure.

@sgtlsgtlighttree (not sure if that works) appears to be using kbin which I don’t think has that star icon and also no way to save the post.

I don’t see how that explanation makes sense. It’s not showing the same thing.

The example in the title is saying .50 times 7 is equal to .07 times 50 which is not just changing the order like in your explanation.

Also, on a pure tecnical standpoint, the “federation” aspect is currently simply not true: I get “The magazine from the federated server may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.” warning message when I try to access most magazines that are not hosted on kbin.social.

Aside from the currently known issues with the kbin.social server messing federation up for it, my understanding of that message is that it is indeed how the federation between instances works for all magazines/communites/etc. A magazine from another instance doesn’t exist here until the first person from here searches for it, at which point just the latest 20 (?) threads are pulled in initially. Once the first person from here subscribes to that magazine then all new threads, comments, etc from that point forward will be pushed here automatically as well. So older threads may not show up hence the message about it being incomplete.