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I'm here from Reddit, via Lemmy, and have no idea where the "boost link" is. I don't seem to see anything like that.
Lemmy doesn't currently have a boost button. Boosts are literally Mastodon's version of a retweet button and since kbin is more compatible with mastodon than lemmy is atm, kbin users have one too.
Unfortunately, incorporating Mastodon's system on a standard forum hasn't panned out quite well -- people are WAY more likely to downvote something than they ever are to reblog it, causing perfectly civil users to have a -400 karma balance. The kbin dev has already acknowledged that it's unbalancing things a bit, so hopefully that should be handled when he gets through the 900 other things. Until then, upvotes on Lemmy I assume are normal, but upvotes on kbin's side are literally just for looks.
Welcome, btw. It takes a while to get used to things here, but I hope you aren't finding things too difficult :)
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Thanks for the heads up.
Is there a more detailed explanation to that?
@Noki Basically, you can't get Internet Points™ when you upvote, only boost. I think that'll change soon!