luna

Recommending and talking about things you use and enjoy is natural and everyone does it constantly, but if it goes against the moral compass of the majority of society, it's suddenly frowned upon and made fun of. Same thing veganism struggles with

I guess names making sense matters more to English speakers, but for the vast majority of the world these English names are just nonsensical, so it doesn't matter that much. Especially since the wider fediverse is largely European, and this service is inspired by the polish Wykop.pl, unlike Reddit, which aimed for a US audience.
Wykop.pl is a direct translation of "Dig out" because it was the local Digg clone, but polish doesn't have a translation of "I dig that", for example

Boost when you want a post to be on your profile

Do weird names really matter? People stop paying attention to them and accept them with enough time. "Reddit" is just a funny mispelling

I think it depends on the region (and possibly type of device?)

They were swapped before, and were recently changed to this for Lemmy compatibility, but things like the algorithm and reputation counting haven't been updated yet.

I think boosts have potential to be used for crossposts, and the current implementation are just crossposts to your profile. Though they're likely here right now just because Kbin is a mix between thread and microblog software

Sex education or people and communities that aren't ashamed of their sexuality

Profits don't matter under capitalism, it's only stock money. Trying to profit is a death sentence in the tech space, as we're all seeing right now. This system doesn't work for the 21st century

I think it's more likely they just disliked the fact most Kbin users don't support genocide, while Lemmy has a history of that. The Stalinist side of Lemmy, moderated and endorsed by the developers, has made fun of Kbin.social before

Happy to see this. I've been avoiding .ml anyway, this makes my job easier. Fuck the Lemmy devs.

On the one hand yes, but also, this makes it much less incentivizing to downvote instances of abuse, discrimination, far right extremism. A lot of those people are not okay mentally and hiighly committed to harassing anyone who disagrees with them, I constantly hear stories of a single disagreement leading to years of harassment on hundreds of alts.