I only get notifications when somone DMs me, but when I make a post and people upvote/comment on it, I get no notification whatsoever.

My settings are default and I haven’t changed much, so it’s as it would have been when I first created an account, hence I don’t believe I disabled anything either.

If it’s not a me issue, then @ernest please do consider making this an important issue to be addressed, and the reason I say that is because it makes Kbin look dead to me, because when I don’t get notified, people would have still conversed with me through my threads on the comments, and also when I don’t get notified about upvotes apart from comments, I don’t even know my post got that much traction unless I manually check it every time.

That being said I know the developer is very busy with Kbin, it’s certainly a feat to create an all-in-one Lemmy and Mastodon alternative with a codebase built from scratch with activitypub compatibility.

So I do understand Kbin is in early development phase and this may already be planned (if yes, great), but even if it is or not, do make this a priority as without proper notifications, whenever I check back Kbin it looks too quiet (especially when it comes to the content I posted).

Edit: Okay sorry for the confusion. Upvotes do get notifications, even on Reddit but not for every upvote, for example if a post gets upvotes to 10, 50, 100, Reddit notifies you. That is what I mean’t, not every upvote.

Thank you!

  • RheingoldRiver@kbin.social
    1·
    11 months ago

    I think you misunderstand the word of gamification. Gamification is the act of creating incentives in apps for individual users to be encouraged to use that app more. It can be in the form of tracking consecutive days you used it and saying “keep the streak up!” and rewarding you with a badge for logging in for a number of consecutive days, it can be from giving you achievements for inviting friends, it can be notifications saying your friends liked the content you sent.

    All it is, is a tactic to keep you engaged with the app by giving you reward signals for using the app more, and in more ways that the app owner wants you to.

    It has nothing to do with being competitive against other users.

    So if you still disagree after knowing this definition, then that’s fine, but I wanted to make sure you know what I’m talking about.

    • TheArstaInventor@kbin.socialOP
      1·
      11 months ago

      Thanks for correcting me, but maybe you should also not leave majority of the part I said, in your following comments (ie: your definition of clickbait for example).

      And there is nothing bad in Gamification, it simply helps drive engagement which proves my point itself again.