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PSA: while upvoting exists, to get the "move closer to the top" effect that reddit's upvote had, you need to click boost (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by tryplot@kbin.social to c/RedditMigration@kbin.social

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a small difference, but important to how people use the site

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[–] Kichae@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They're not redundant functions. They're... Mixed up on kbin right now, because things were originally built with the up button boosting content, but that's incongruent with how Lemmy does it, so it was changed.

But boosting isn't really about sorting at all. It's about republishing content, so that it can be sent out to instances that have started following a group after the content was originally posted.

[–] ShadowRam@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I believe it is more akin to 're-tweeting' for your followers.

All boosts you boost are not private and everyone can see everything you have boosted