Yes, I know browser bookmarks exist. But there must be some native functionality that I keep just not noticing - right?

  • sik0fewl@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Boost is not the same. A boost is like a retweet. It’s public and anyone following you will see it in their feed.

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      1 year ago

      While that’s true it still works as a sort of save button since you can see all the comments and posts you boosted easily in your profile, just as if you’d saved them. If you don’t have any followers (or you don’t mind sharing content you want to save with your followers) using the boost button as a work around until we get a save feature isn’t a bad idea.

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        1 year ago

        FWIW, Boosting does more than pushing posts out to followers. It also re-sends it to the community group actor, which sends it out again to everyone subscribed.

        You know how you can’t see content on remote communities from before someone on your instance subscribed to it? Well, boosting content makes it “new” again, allowing newer subscribers to see older posts and comments.

        This is why upvotes were mapped to boosts, not favourites, on kbin originally. To help with content propagation.

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          1 year ago

          Additionally, my understanding from another discussion is that, right now, Boost will affect the reputation score of the Boosted author’s account, while upvote will not. So there’s that to consider also.

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            1 year ago

            That shouldn’t be on anyone’s mind, really. Except ernest’s. He’s aware of the issue, and will rectify it sooner or later, but currently reputation doesn’t do anything.

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              1 year ago

              Fair enough. There was a comment elsewhere in this discussion about not wanting to upvote or boost something they disagree with, and you probably wouldn’t want to increase the reputation of somebody you disagree with, regardless of if it actually having any meaning. But you probably also wouldn’t want to publicly boost or upvote in that case anyway, just to save a comment/article either.