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Hypothesis: Insufficient moderation tools lead to instance protectionism, which leads to a decline in the overall discussion quality on Lemmy (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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[–] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Circa 60,000 active users, but whatever...

You are rather missing my point. Because it sorts on boosts rather than upvotes it surfaces different things in the federated 'all' feed.

Edit: As corrected below it's about 10k monthly active users, but that's still circa 10% of the whole threadiverse (kbin + Lemmy) and only Lemmy.world is larger than kbin.social

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    What's the difference between a boost and an upvote?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I think a boost is referring to the Mastodon kind, so basically a retweet

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Indeed. Activity pub includes favourites and boosts.
    Lemmy uses favourites as an upvote. Kbin does too, but kbin also allows boots and it considers that a boost (which is like a retweet) is a more significant endorsement so sorting and reputation is based more on boosts than on upvotes.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago

    Turn federation off and browse /all. 90% of content is the same 4-5 posters or very niche magazines that are full of posts exclusively submitted by the magazine owner. Comments are a bit more varied but you can’t throw a stone without hitting one of about 7 frequent commenters, which also includes the 4-5 post submitters.

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