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Kbin upvote vs Lemmy upvvote (kbin.social)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by mizzyc@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social

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I already understood that, for now, the Kbin upvote not really upvote a post/comment and to do so, I need to boost it.

But, how do Lemmy (and possibly other sites from Fediverse) deal with this difference?

For example:
If I boost a Lemmy post in Kbin, it'll count as an upvote on Lemmy? Or do I need to upvote it when it's a cross-post from another Fediverse?
And how does Lemmy understand a boost in post at Kbin?
Also, if someone at Lemmy upvote my post in Kbin, it'll count as an upvote or as a boost?

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[–] Alexmitter@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Afaik they switched upvotes from "boost" to "favorite" but did not update the reputation system yet.

[–] Teppic@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Exactly, and "yet" is key.
The issues log still has this open:
https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues/3
Worth noting both boosts and favourites(upvotes) are inherited from the wider, fediverse and using either is a bit of a fudge which is done to maintain compatibility.
At some point ranking and reputation will be aligned with upvotes, but as you can see from the issues log the best way to do this is still being debated.

Edit: typo.

[–] Alexmitter@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

This is not really about the general problem that comes with how both kbin and lemmy treat upvotes, it is simply so that it was forgotten to change what counts with the reputation and that was already confirmed.