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PSA: Upvote is not an upvote like you are used to (like Reddit) - "Boost" is the Reddit Upvote (kbin.social)

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

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Like the title says, if you want to upvote something on KBin, you should use the Boost link, not the upvote button (Why? Don't know...)

The upvote button doesn't seem to do much, but Boost accomplishes what Reddit's upvote did. So if you're looking to encourage a post, use the Boost link.

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[–] scamper@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But what are upvotes and downvotes? I would have assumed upvote is fave/star. Is downvote an emoji react?

[–] garrettw87@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I believe you are correct about upvotes. To my knowledge, downvotes don’t federate at all (ActivityPub may not support them, for all I know), so what they do here is merely affect reputation points.

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

Just caught my attention with the wording - upvote being "favourite" and downvote called "reduce" (whatever that means)

[–] garrettw87@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I believe the idea with “reduce” is the opposite of “boost”.

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

"Hide this post from people!" :')

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

Oh interesting, so are downvote counts only reflective of what my individual server has received? I assumed they at least federated between kbin and Lemmy even if the rest of fedi didn't have a way to understand them.

[–] garrettw87@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

It’s possible, but again don’t take my word for it. I haven’t really begun to dive into the code just yet.