Can someone help me with a few kbin/lemmy questions? I'm trying to understand the difference between the upvote and "boost". Also the differences between Threads, Microblog, and Magazines.

Upvote does basically nothing, boost is upvote. This is because of a bug, so make sure you just press both buttons.

I think when you upvote, you make the post more visible in people's feeds, while boosting is more about increasing the reputation of the poster? I'm not sure what the latter implies, though. One notable difference seems to be that boosting is not anonymous. Everyone can see it was you who did the boosting.

@acunasdaddy

In kbin, magazines are based on topics. Users can start threads within a magazine and upvote or downvote in any threads. An upvote is the equivalent of a like or favorite on other platforms. If you boost a thread comment, that is the same as boosting or sharing on another platform.

kbin also has microblogging which is the same as Mastodon, and you can boost and upvote microblogs as well.