GalacticLasersJun 23, 2023

YSK: You can view upvote and downvote information through kbin

https://sh.itjust.works/post/361524

YSK: You can view upvote and downvote information through kbin - sh.itjust.works

If you are browsing through https://kbin.social/ [https://kbin.social/] or whatever just click on “more” then activity. There you’ll see info like boosts, reduces (downvotes), and favorites (upvotes?) Works with all instances for lemmy or kbin material

Show threadfunchordsJun 23, 2023
What's the difference between a favorite and a boost?
Show threadvaguerantJun 23, 2023
A boost is like a Twitter "retweet", it reposts the content to the booster's personal timeline for people who follow them to see. For example, right now, two people have boosted your question. If you go to "more --> activity" you can see who boosted you, go to their profiles and find your comment "What's the difference between a favorite and a boost?" on their respective profiles under boosts.
Show threadVery_Bad_Janet
Also, at least in kbin.social, it allows the user to save the post/comment (i don't know how to bookmark otherwise).
Jun 23, 2023 at 1:26pmWeb
Show threadJohnEdwaJun 23, 2023
(post) upvotes are actually your favourites - https://kbin.social/fav
It's a bodge from when kbin and Lemmy started federating with each other and had to merge their systems. Before that boosts were the kbin upvotes, but they aren't used on Lemmy.
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Show threadphoenixdigita1Jun 25, 2023

Another important difference is the "reputation score" for each user profile.

  • Favourites (up arrow) on posts and comments do not contribute in any way to reputation.
  • Reduce (down arrow) does reduce your reputation by 1 point
  • Boost (bottom of comments) increases your reputation by 1 point.

I understand the reasoning why the devs separated favourites and boosts but your average user (especially reddit refugees) do not understand this. I think that reputation should also include favourites in the calculation.

I personally use reputation as an indicator that I'm contrbuting in a postive way to a community not really as a winning "fake internet points" thing.