true. I am literate in internet/computer yet the idea in general is still confusing. Navigating is also abit jarring, and I dont understand some buttons and features like “boost”. It would be great for beginners to include a tutorial for navigating the UI and a short introduction of the fediverse in #teachmelikeim5 level
AFAIK, boosts are only used to rank posts on kbin. Lemmy uses upvotes for that.
Boosts are necessary because they re-publish content to the group, and that pushes it out to people who subscribed to the group after the content was originally posted
true. I am literate in internet/computer yet the idea in general is still confusing. Navigating is also abit jarring, and I dont understand some buttons and features like “boost”. It would be great for beginners to include a tutorial for navigating the UI and a short introduction of the fediverse in #teachmelikeim5 level
Boost is a repost as far as I know :)
Boost is a repost or retweet on mastodon, and in the microblog sections of kbin.
On thread comments, a boost pushes the top level comments to the top of the stack. It means “this is the shit, everyone’s gotta read this first.”
On the threads view, a boost pushes a thread up the list but not all the way to the top, so it’s practically an upvote.
In all cases, if you have followers, it pushes the threads and microblog posts you boosted into their feed.
AFAIK, boosts are only used to rank posts on kbin. Lemmy uses upvotes for that.
Boosts are necessary because they re-publish content to the group, and that pushes it out to people who subscribed to the group after the content was originally posted