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

  • Kichae@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    They’re not redundant functions. They’re… Mixed up on kbin right now, because things were originally built with the up button boosting content, but that’s incongruent with how Lemmy does it, so it was changed.

    But boosting isn’t really about sorting at all. It’s about republishing content, so that it can be sent out to instances that have started following a group after the content was originally posted.

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      1 year ago

      I believe it is more akin to ‘re-tweeting’ for your followers.

      All boosts you boost are not private and everyone can see everything you have boosted