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this post was submitted on 04 Sep 2024
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What's the difference between a boost and a favourite?
A favorite is like your standard upvote. A boost is like a "retweet" in the micro blogging sense but can also be used like an extra upvote for especially useful comments / posts / threads. Boosts will also appear within your profile, so you can sort of use them as a "save" function too, if you feel you want to come back to them.
Yea so the point is that your followers don't automatically see your upvotes but your followers will see what you boost (repost)? I guess that makes sense.