ernest 64 points 3 years ago

why not both gif

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SnowboardBum 29 points 3 years ago

por que no los dos

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ADHDefy 18 points 3 years ago

The way I think of it across the fediverse as a whole:

Upvote/Favorite = I like this and I want OP to know

Boost = Other people need to see this

So like low effort memes and off-topic jokes that make me laugh will get an upvote. A thoughtful take, useful information, or something really funny will get both.

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macallik 7 points 3 years ago

That's the gist for most ppl I think, but my guess is the logic was thrown off initially when only boosts counted towards reputation

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mihnt 7 points 3 years ago

Do both for that sweet double dopamine rush.

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FreeBooteR69 6 points 3 years ago

When in doubt, press all the buttons.

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Metaright 1 point 3 years ago

Instructions unclear; all my money has been wired to Nigeria.

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MrZigZag 4 points 3 years ago

I'm still not sure what the difference is. Boost is related to "microblogging" or something?

And if there's both upvotes and downvotes, why isn't there a "diminish" choice that's the opposite of boost?

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tal 5 points 3 years ago

Lemmy tries to present content in the same format as Reddit does.

On kbin, you have functionality that roughly mirrors Reddit as well as functionality that roughly mirrors Twitter.

On Reddit, you upvote or downvote a given comment or post.

On Twitter, you "retweet" it -- basically, re-send a link to the tweet to the people who follow the microblog that you write.

kbin can present content in both ways.

The way I use them:

Upvote: "This is a good comment in the context of this discussion."
Boost: "Oh, man, this is important. More people should know about this."

If you regularly boost content of a given sort, then people who want to follow your microblog will see related content that they may be interested in.

Here's a list of things that I have boosted:

https://kbin.social/u/tal/boosts

If you decide that that's especially in-line with things that you're interested in, you could follow that.

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InterSynth 2 points 3 years ago

Upvote should working as intended now, if I'm not mistaken.

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ZILtoid1991 1 point 3 years ago

Why not both?

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