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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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.

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 :)

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'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