Is there really a reason, for example, for there to be the distinction of “magazine” and “community”? When you’re federating, the same features should be called the same, if close enough. That way everyone can talk with everyone about stuff and we all immediately understand each other.
Would also alleviate confusion for any new adopters.
^I’m pretty sure this is going to be impossible though, since each sides egos will likely get in the way :D^
Right now, boosts increase reputation and downvotes (“reduces”) decrease reputation. From what I’ve heard, this is a mistake from when boosts and upvotes (“favorites”) were switched in some way that I don’t really understand. Upvotes should be the thing that increases karma, and the fact that they aren’t is a bug. The kbin developer has mentioned plans to fix that.
AFAIK it’s from when Kbin and Lemmy started federating, Lemmy upvotes and Kbin favourites were using the same system, while Kbin boosts weren’t used on Lemmy at all. So Kbin quickly swapped them around but hasn’t yet properly fixed and rebranded the UI interactions.