It was changed recently, now upvote works similar to lemmy/reddit (but also adds things to your favourites)
Boost is more for the microblogging side of kbin, it’s like a retweet. (also adds more reputation points but that’s not really useful for anything right now)
I hate it… I don’t know if it’s because they made shows thinking it will be seen on a perfect screen, or because they think it’s “realistic”, but it makes lots of things unwatchable.
If you watch the Daredevil serie from 2015, most of the action scenes take place at night or in dark rooms (since main character is blind), but you can still perfectly understand what is happening.
There is really no need to make the person watching feel like they are blind too…
Currently :
“Boost” adds reputation. It’s a kind of retweet.
“Downvote” removes reputation
“Upvote” does nothing. (edit : for reputation)
This is because previously the upvote was boost, they were switched around to be similar to other fediverse systems.
Dev mentioned in another thread that the reputation system should be changed to have up/down count instead of boost/down. But they have a lot to do right now so it might not be the most pressing issue…
Ernest mentioned it will be changed :
https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/49212/How-does-reputation-work-on-kbin#entry-comment-208018
Chip shortage really hit them hard… At some point I even had a Firefox extension that would send me a notification when they were available somewhere.
It’s supposed to get better by the end of the year though.
If you get arrested during a protest, they can force you to unlock the phone (it can be a felony to refuse) , so better not to bring it at all.