Boost is a repost or retweet on mastodon, and in the microblog sections of kbin.
On thread comments, a boost pushes the top level comments to the top of the stack. It means "this is the shit, everyone's gotta read this first."
On the threads view, a boost pushes a thread up the list but not all the way to the top, so it's practically an upvote.
In all cases, if you have followers, it pushes the threads and microblog posts you boosted into their feed.
I'm thinking the same. I already nuked my 12 years of comments (I was a commenter, not a poster) and I'll delete the account at the end of this month.
I'd suggest adding something like "even though you can access the content on other instances, the user experience will differ depending on which instance you sign up for".
A good analogy would be using Facebook vs Twitter but being able to follow and post content cross platform from either of them.
One will not look and feel like the other, but they will let you read and reply to content from the other one.
For good measure add in reddit, hacker news, and discord in there too to help people visualize.
It's also important to give people a few clear instance examples to check out, but you already did enough of that I think.
Holy moly, that's insane!
I do all of those things too because why wouldn't I?
Is there anything as to the outcome of the arrests? Also what was the reason in the first place for the police to be interested in these people?
I think you might have just sold me the game. Someone should pay you.
I don't agree with the "it doesn't matter which one you join" part because each instance offers a different user experience, even though technically they are interconnected, and depending on mostly the size of the instance someone chooses, their experience can make or break the usability of the fediverse in their eyes.
I think people should be directed to instances with already vibrant communities and then when they learn the ropes, they'll find their best fit anyway.
Did beehaw block lemmygrad?
As a reddit convert who just started on kbin, where can I read a bit about all this communists thing? I'm left leaning enough to call myself communist between friends and family so I'd like to observe where the political tendencies of these various instances lie. If it's too much of a hassle, never mind. I'll probably figure it out soon enough.
Good faith is the key here. I'm all for disagreements leading to lengthy discussions and even some controversy as long as everyone is arguing in good faith.
I can't stand trolling, outright bigotry, and the normalization of literal fascist opinions as a mere "disagreement". If a "disagreement" (you know which ones I mean) will lead to people dying if enabled, I'm pretty happy keeping those ideas out.
Haha, lol!
I nuked my twelve year old account yesterday and I'm literally not even sad. That joke of an AMA sealed the deal for me.
The best part for me personally is, I got an excuse to finally migrate to fediverse. I'm joining a discussion on lemmy from kbin while following stuff from mastodon and beehaw.
It's nerdy and fun. Also, interestingly, feels more reliable. You don't like the people running one service, did the owner turn out to be an utter sociopath? Go, make an account on somewhere better suited to your style and keep engaging with the same communities, maybe at the cost of a different UI experience. It's much preferable to losing an entire platform to the whims of a few at the top.
I don't think they'll cave in, and honestly I don't care what they do.
People like us made reddit what it is, and we can make a home somewhere else one way or the other.
It's time we take the internet as a whole back from the billionaires and their soulless venture capital firms anyway.
Make internet nerdy again, I always say.
One thing to know is, the up and downvote buttons don't do anything to the placement of a comment or post. It's a general like-dislike marker.
If you want to upvote something as in the reddit functionality, boost it.