Right now, downvotes (reduces) don’t federate to (and from?) Kbin instances. This lack of federation makes the downvote counter really inaccurate—a comment that looks like it’s +10 might be -15 when you look at it from lemmy.world.

This leaves me with a few questions:

  • Is downvote federation going to be implemented?
  • If so, is it a priority or something that’ll happen much further down the line?
  • If not, will downvoting be removed?
  • CoffeeAddict@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    (i.e. boost= two upvotes).

    I think this is an interesting concept.

    Lemmy users don’t have boosts, so they would not be able to deliver “two upvotes” but I also think kbin shouldn’t be limited by what lemmy can or cannot do.

    Having both sorting algorithms for both upvotes and boosts available as a sort option might be the most fair way forward.

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        1 year ago

        A boost is effectively a retweet. The thing you boost gets re-shared from you to the people that follow you … the stuff I boost with this account is gets added to my feed on my Mastodon account. You’re basically saying “damn, I love this comment and want to make sure everyone else gets a chance to see it too!”