You should update your post to clarify that what you said isn't true.
Upvotes are upvotes, boost is like retweet.
The reputation calculation just haven't been updated yet.
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Right, so boost behaves like Reddit upvote at the moment. So the title of the post is accurate still.
And if everyone just reads and listens to OP they'll all be doing it wrong when it gets fixed, all because you aren't happy that your "reputation" score isn't changing. The software is scarcely a month old folks, and until a week ago was the work of one guy. People need to relax a bit.
No it does not.
Boost behaves like a retweet and upvotes like upvotes.
The reputation calculation just haven't been updated yet, that doesn't mean an upvote isn't an upvote.
Upvotes are what shows as upvotes because that's what they are.
Reputation is just something on your profile page that's currently wrong.
Your post is spreading a misunderstanding, there's already been other confused people posting.
In my understanding, boost is retweet and upvote is upvote. So upvote is the Reddit upvote but it doesn't change your reputation?
But boosts don’t do anything on places that don’t implement like here on Lemmy. …no?
Yeah seems redundant.
Glad to hear, I had no idea about this.
thanks, im boosting this. now if i could just not scroll to the furthest down for replying...
I do wish there was a bit more privacy involved with boosting though, as of right now anyone can see what I boost.
Boost as a “shout out” being public is alright. I guess for us Reddit folks it’s like a cross post to our own u/sub that followers could see.
Upvote/downvote, though, should be private. Not sure if that’s ever truly possible though because by the nature of the fediverse it has to be replicated across to other instances and so everything is “open” as I understand it.
It may not be easily visible in the UI but it’s there in the data.
So I try to think of everything here like it’s a postcard not a letter.
Any mail carrier who sees it (and makes a copy) can see it all.
for me, the main selling point of kbin over lemmy was the transparency in user interactions on here. the last straw on the camel's back over at lemmy for me was seeing blatant vote manipulation hiding behind the end-user anonymity; kept an eye on some accounts that would instantly always get the same number of upvotes, dependent on the specific account, less than 3-5 seconds after posting. it was always some single-digit amount (I assume to not get flagged by the system), but that's all it takes to signal others to feel safer upvoting it.
the same can be done likewise to bury others' content that they can view as competition to what they want seen, multiple early downvotes can act as a subconscious deterrent to others
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