Fuck Reddit u̶p̶v̶o̶t̶e̶ boost party!

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The apps have all gone offline, welcome aboard to all the other refugees, fuck /u/spez!

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Sorry if this is a dumb question, but what's the difference between boosting and hitting the upvote/downvote looking buttons?

Boost is a kbin upvote, while upvote is a Lemmy upvote. So if you want promote some good content on kbin, you have to use boost

This is awful. It’s confusing.

This is from the various services trying to talk to each other in ways they weren't originally designed to do, really. Our "upvote" is a mastodon "favorite" (like) while our "boost" is functionally a retweet/reblog. Kbin tries to bridge the gap between threaded content and microblogging, and it gets about 90% of the way there; all it really needs to do is change it so that upvotes are the ones that contribute to reputation instead of boosts, which are functionally useless outside a fully microblog-style environment.

Lol, the developer has acknowledged it doesn't make sense at the moment and it will be changed.

Thank goodness for that at least. It can't come soon enough

It is currently broken which is why it functions in such a terrible way. A fix has been made, but not yet pushed to live. Hold tight :)

It'll work itself out eventually. Kbin is still super new. Ernest is hard at work every day

Kbin is basically still in alpha. They're fixing stuff like this. It'll be fixed soon.

@Brkdncr

There's definitely room for improvement, but I like what I see so far and don't have a problem learning a new paradigm. I'm sure that as the platform matures things will become more consistent.

I've read it's a work in progress and may be changed at some point to be consistent across the Fediverse. Poor guy is slammed with feature requests and bug reports with Kbin.

From what I can see the upvote / downvote both work as you'd expect now (as in upvoting curates content). There was apparently a period of time where 'boost' was the upvote mechanic but that's been changed

Boost is like retweeting something, you can have followers in the fediverse. Boosting makes something more visible to everyone, so you upvote/downvote things you personally like/dislike and boost things you think your followers/everyone would like

Think of this place as a cross between email, Twitter and reddit. All communities can interact with each other and are independent

The upvote doesn't represent an upvote on Kbin, so if you get a normal flow of upvotes/downvotes and no boosts, you'll have a negative reputation.

reputation doesn't actually do anything, of course, but it is there.

It only doesn't count as an upvote as far as reputation is concerned, upvotes are still upvotes in determining post ranking.