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this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2023
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in kbin, boosts and upvotes are like boosts and favorites in mastodon/calckey. but in here, boosts also ranking up the thread in the top category.
the reputation point is broken tho, because the mechanism behind boost and upvote have been modified/switched a few days ago, but the reputation point code not updated yet.
New to kbin and don't use Mastodon yet. If a boost is a super-upvote, why wouldn't you boost everything when you voted it up?
Edit: found the FAQ: boosts are sent to followers in timeline/feed.
boosts are like retweet. it improves the visibility of a thread. it's like sharing it with all your followers + promoting it to the top category.
I boost content that I want to be seen. I upvote content as a kind gesture for the author. I downvote content that is really not appropriate but just not enough to be reported.