PSA: Upvote is not an upvote like you are used to (like Reddit) - "Boost" is the Reddit Upvote
HamSwagwich@kbin.social to /kbin meta@kbin.social – 492 points – 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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But boosts don’t do anything on places that don’t implement like here on Lemmy. …no?
Yeah seems redundant.
A boost is like a retweet, from my understanding - so must be a basic bit of functionality built into ActivityPub, I’d guess.
Yep. Though activitypub calls it something else as well. It's renames all the way down