Like the title says, if you want to upvote something on KBin, you should use the Boost link, not the upvote button (Why? Don’t know…)

The upvote button doesn’t seem to do much, but Boost accomplishes what Reddit’s upvote did. So if you’re looking to encourage a post, use the Boost link.

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    1 year ago

    But what are upvotes and downvotes? I would have assumed upvote is fave/star. Is downvote an emoji react?

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      1 year ago

      I believe you are correct about upvotes. To my knowledge, downvotes don’t federate at all (ActivityPub may not support them, for all I know), so what they do here is merely affect reputation points.

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        1 year ago

        Just caught my attention with the wording - upvote being “favourite” and downvote called “reduce” (whatever that means)

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        Oh interesting, so are downvote counts only reflective of what my individual server has received? I assumed they at least federated between kbin and Lemmy even if the rest of fedi didn’t have a way to understand them.

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          It’s possible, but again don’t take my word for it. I haven’t really begun to dive into the code just yet.