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[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 year ago

why not both gif

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

por que no los dos

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When in doubt, press all the buttons.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Do both for that sweet double dopamine rush.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Simply use both of them, hehehe.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Why not both?

[–] lusterko 1 points 1 year ago

Please do both

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