Like the title says, if you want to upvote something on KBin, you should use the Boost link, not the upvote button (Why? Don’t know…)
The upvote button doesn’t seem to do much, but Boost accomplishes what Reddit’s upvote did. So if you’re looking to encourage a post, use the Boost link.
Do upvotes/boosts and downvotes pass from one instance to another? I assume not. So if I upvote a post from lemmy.world that’s hosted on kbin.social…what happens? It only affects lemmy.world?
The votes are federated but peeps post from time to time that they arent perfectly synced.
i believe It should be synced across, except for the boosts which dont exist on lemmy
Upvotes and downvotes do get synced across instances. There are some issues with how that works atm, basically, sometimes ur vote will only count on the instance you are on, but that’s not actually how it’s supposed to work.
been wondering about comments too… but I guess those are supposed to somehow sync across all instances. otherwise how am I replying to you from Lemmy?