As we all try to settle into this new community just a friendly reminder to upvote and support your fellow community members! The only way new content will get to the front page is if people upvote it. AND it helps encourage people to submit more content.
Same with comments, upvote people to encourage discussion and participation. Let's build a supportive and active community together!
I'm a /refugee here but I think that this place is different...we get/discover ideas by sharing, boosting and speaking to things that we care about not by giving/taking karma points in this place. That paradigm is dead.
My profile is on Lemmy @lemmy.world. I don't have an option to boost anything. Only upvote and downvote. It's my understanding that if you interact from mastodon then you can boost.
On kbin there are options to upvote and downvote. The upvotes are related to favorites and boosts are like reblogs in the mastodon scheme. kbin has a unique way to blend the thread style of communication and content with the microblog that is better federated to other Activity Pub server instance types.
That would be great, but upvoting is what people are used to and I think it would urge people to participate, especially while we're in this transition period.
@1chemistdown@AnotherPerson Boost is like a retweet on Twitter it shares to your own followers on your instance and upvote is like Reddit. You like there post comment/reply
Also, I don't think an upvote will be 'saved' anywhere for you to reference later? So if you do want to circle back on the content, I guess 'boost' is the way to go. I haven't figured out how to 'un-boost' something though
If there was the same option I used on Reddit to "hide posts you have upvoted/downvoted" so that I can just upvote/downvote each thing I read and it will be hidden after that, it would be great and my main page would always only show new content.
I always upvote, I'd like to have a history of my upvoted threads though, I sometimes upvoted something that I'd want to show it to someone else, and no I don't save all the stuff that I want to share lol.