Didn't kbin have a separate mechanism for supporting a post in a more public way? I can't remember how that worked now, but it was in addition to the regular voting I think?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Kbin has upvote, downvote, and boost. Boost comes from the microblogging side, kbin does both content aggregation like Lemmy and microblogging like Mastodon. On the content aggregation side boost counts as 2 upvotes and it functions as normal for the microblogging side. Kbin.social is the only Kbin instance I used, I expect that it works the same on other Kbin instances and on Mbin but I don't know for sure.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I use MBin and it works pretty much as you described, it has upvote (similar to Mastodon like) and boost (similar to Mastodon repost)

Both upvotes and boosts are public on Mbin, but downvotes aren't (to prevent harassment)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's called 'boosting' and I believe mbin kept it as well.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Yeah. It's the repost functionality common on Mastodon.

Back on Kbin.social I would have some followers from Mastodon, and when I saw a neat comment I would sometimes boost it and thereby push it straight to their feeds.

Same thing would work on Mbin, except that i don't have followers. Oh well, I still boost posts I find neat.