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Long and short term, which features would you like to see implemented? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by eatmoregreenfood@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social

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For me flair is probably the most important. I follow a lot of organized sports and being able to quickly identify which team someone supports helps the conversation move along without having to write "as a fan of..." in every single comment. And this isn't a like talking shit, sports guy thing. It's genuinely extremely useful for broadening the depth of the conversation.

Also not having to scroll to find the reply box. Super annoying. Super easy fix.

That being said I'm all in on kbin. Deleted Reddit. Not going back.

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[–] eatmoregreenfood@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (15 children)

Point 1 is paramount. 5 is important also from a tech standpoint. The rest are very good points.

[–] aroom@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (14 children)

I really like that we can see the activity. People are using downvote way too easily. Lets make everyone accountable.

edit: hey downvoters, come off your high horse and argue. right now all your saying is "shut up", so for me you are contributing to exclude people to express themself. this is not at all what I'm looking forward in this community.

[–] eatmoregreenfood@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (5 children)

We should have the ability to manage what of our data goes out to the internet/advertisers/scrapers/other users. Non negotiable.

[–] aroom@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I totally agree. We could let this info be private between users.

[–] eatmoregreenfood@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Advertiser makes a user account that is a bot for harvesting data. Now it isn't between human users anymore. And more than that I don't think I want people I don't know having access to information I don't want them to have access to.

[–] aroom@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

but if you interact with me I'd like to know. So where do you draw the line? or maybe I don't understand you correctly.

I don't want to be advocating to less privacy, so feel free to correct me, but just by interacting with each other right now, without using the upvote and downvote system, we are already giving information to potential scrappers no? The solution would be to remove upvote and downvote all together then?

I like how favorite works on mastodon. we could achieve the same on kbin?

[–] Lodespawn@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Could it be possible to have two kinds of boosts, anon boost or tracked boost? The standard default could be anon with a hover option for tracked, with the default being a setting that can be flipped.

[–] aroom@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

as for now boosts and upvotes on kbin works like boost and favorite on mastodon. I think that it's good to keep this compatibility.

in my option if we can't take responsibility of our action, be called by our name for them, we shouldn't act. we need to address some privacy aspect tho, regarding external party. but between to users I welcome this transparency.

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