Why YSK: your upvotes (favorites) and downvotes( reduces) are public information.

If you are browsing through https://kbin.social/ or whatever just click on “more” then activity.

There you’ll see info like boosts, reduces (downvotes), and favorites (upvotes?)

Works with all instances for lemmy or kbin material

  • JohnEdwa@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    (post) upvotes are actually your favourites - https://kbin.social/fav
    It’s a bodge from when kbin and Lemmy started federating with each other and had to merge their systems. Before that boosts were the kbin upvotes, but they aren’t used on Lemmy.

    • phoenixdigita1@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      Another important difference is the “reputation score” for each user profile.

      • Favourites (up arrow) on posts and comments do not contribute in any way to reputation.
      • Reduce (down arrow) does reduce your reputation by 1 point
      • Boost (bottom of comments) increases your reputation by 1 point.

      I understand the reasoning why the devs separated favourites and boosts but your average user (especially reddit refugees) do not understand this. I think that reputation should also include favourites in the calculation.

      I personally use reputation as an indicator that I’m contrbuting in a postive way to a community not really as a winning “fake internet points” thing.