I mean that’s a cool feature Reddit didn’t have. There are so many tech savvy people here yet I feel the boost button is mostly ignored even though it can be so much more powerful in how it changes the exposure of a link/comment.
If I can’t see the actual amount of boosts due to some fuckery with being on kbin instead Lemmy or whatever lmk.

Edit because I immediately got plenty of confused comments. I enter the lemmyverse through kbin and this federation offers to not just upvote but boost a comment as well. For me this means I can give a comment more exposure.
But I’m really not good with computers plz to halp. There’s a very good chance that I entirely misunderstood what I’m clicking on all the time.

Edit 2: I just wanted to let everyone know that this post was boosted eight times 48 minutes after posting which is a lot. Kbin represent!

  • AnonTwo@kbin.social
    3·
    11 months ago

    The only time I really paid attention to it was when upvotes didn’t work to actually upvote people.

    I don’t really see the point of boost.

    I guess some people are saying it’s like retweets, but since I never really retweeted either…

    • Eavolution@kbin.social
      2·
      11 months ago

      The way I use it is to help an important/helpful post/comment reach the top of the frontpage/comment thread as I think other people should see it.

        • Eavolution@kbin.social
          2·
          11 months ago

          I’m almost certain I read that at least for kbin, upvotes don’t mean much, but boosts are what determine comment order and make posts go up ranks.

          • sirfancy@lemmy.world
            2·
            11 months ago

            I’ve always set my comment sorting views to “Top” anyway, i.e. most upvotes at top. Not quite sure why this needs to be complicated like this. If something needs visibility and the community wants to indicate that, they upvote it.