Ernest is likely working on it

Agreed. I upvoted AND boosted your comment for redundancy.

Yea, i'm working on my own Fedi software and i'm struggling with the point of boosting in the link aggregator context. It's an odd overlap with Reddit-style reposting to appropriate subs, but based on the user.

It makes sense in the Twitter UX, but i struggle to find it's place in the Reddit UX.

"Boost" comes across as a bug, not a feature. People should have one vote, not two.

Should they? It seems to me that we should have way, way more control over how we choose to sort things.

That should be one of the options, of course, but we can have so much more here.

Agreed, location of voting and boost should be swapped, at least until voting means something.

Of course, allow me to illuminate for you what it actually does: Nothing.

Edit: Wow thanks so much for the upvotes everyone that's really productive! Hahaha

The upvote button does nothing, but the downvote button subtracts reputation.

Is this a UI issue or a fundamental flaw of the Fediverse? In other words, is this only confusing because of how the UI and thread display logic respond to the data they’re getting? Is this just an issue of how the comments thread is ordered, and the fact that it isn’t what the user would expect? (I only ask because I’m curious and want to know how this place works)

if it works as a favorite where do you go to see your favorited content?

I think actually it's both.

I think Hot and Top are sorted according to upvotes + boosts (weighted x2) less downvotes. I think the plan is reputation will work the same way (once it gets fixed).

...but reading this thread I wonder if that needs a rethink - people seem to boost rather more liberally than expected/intend in order to game this algorithm.

It was thought/expected that, since boosts effectively retweet the comment, they would be used quite sparingly - this is why they have a relatively high significance.

We could probably do with some clarity on all of this because this line of discussion has been repeated many times and there is quite a lot of hearsay and misinformation being parroted. @Ernest ?

everyone can see your likes too! it’s important to how activitypub works for all that to be public

tap more, activity to see the likes on pretty much anything on kbin

Boosting is like retweeting, it doesn't make sense for it to be private.

Just so everyone's aware, upvotes and downvotes are also public, due to how federation works.