HarkMahlberg@kbin.social to Fediverse@kbin.social · 1 year agoWhile trying to wrap my head around the concept of the Fediverse, I made this map. How did I do?media.kbin.socialimagemessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down10
arrow-up12arrow-down1imageWhile trying to wrap my head around the concept of the Fediverse, I made this map. How did I do?media.kbin.socialHarkMahlberg@kbin.social to Fediverse@kbin.social · 1 year agomessage-square9fedilink
minus-squareCynAq@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoBoost is a repost or retweet on mastodon, and in the microblog sections of kbin. On thread comments, a boost pushes the top level comments to the top of the stack. It means “this is the shit, everyone’s gotta read this first.” On the threads view, a boost pushes a thread up the list but not all the way to the top, so it’s practically an upvote. In all cases, if you have followers, it pushes the threads and microblog posts you boosted into their feed.
minus-squareKichae@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoAFAIK, boosts are only used to rank posts on kbin. Lemmy uses upvotes for that. Boosts are necessary because they re-publish content to the group, and that pushes it out to people who subscribed to the group after the content was originally posted
Boost is a repost or retweet on mastodon, and in the microblog sections of kbin.
On thread comments, a boost pushes the top level comments to the top of the stack. It means “this is the shit, everyone’s gotta read this first.”
On the threads view, a boost pushes a thread up the list but not all the way to the top, so it’s practically an upvote.
In all cases, if you have followers, it pushes the threads and microblog posts you boosted into their feed.
AFAIK, boosts are only used to rank posts on kbin. Lemmy uses upvotes for that.
Boosts are necessary because they re-publish content to the group, and that pushes it out to people who subscribed to the group after the content was originally posted