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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 [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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

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[–] [email protected] 183 points 1 year ago (41 children)

Horrible idea. No one sees this button, no one knows what it does, and upvotes definitely should have that effect.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (14 children)

Yea, i'm working on my own Fedi software and i'm struggling with the point of boosting in the link aggregator context. It's an odd overlap with Reddit-style reposting to appropriate subs, but based on the user.

It makes sense in the Twitter UX, but i struggle to find it's place in the Reddit UX.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Boosting is super important in all contexts in the Fediverse.

When am instance subscribes to a content source - be that a user actor or a group actor - on behalf of a user, it only requests future content. Back catalogues are not fetched by default. Boosting re-publishes the content, so that it is received by new followers.

With a group actor, the boost triggers the actor to reboot the content itself, sending it out to new subscribers to the group, and filling in that back catalogue.