Can someone help me with a few kbin/lemmy questions? I’m trying to understand the difference between the upvote and “boost”. Also the differences between Threads, Microblog, and Magazines.
TYIA!
Can someone help me with a few kbin/lemmy questions? I’m trying to understand the difference between the upvote and “boost”. Also the differences between Threads, Microblog, and Magazines.
TYIA!
I think when you upvote, you make the post more visible in people’s feeds, while boosting is more about increasing the reputation of the poster? I’m not sure what the latter implies, though. One notable difference seems to be that boosting is not anonymous. Everyone can see it was you who did the boosting.
Boosting “reblogs” the post, so if somebody follows your user (you can follow users either here or through Mastodon), they will see anything you’ve boosted. It will also be visible on your profile pages, which shows everything you’ve posted or boosted.
I follow my account here from Mastodon, and often use the boost to get the post to show up on my Mastodon account. I’ll boost it again from there to show it to my followers.