Right now, downvotes (reduces) don’t federate to (and from?) Kbin instances. This lack of federation makes the downvote counter really inaccurate—a comment that looks like it’s +10 might be -15 when you look at it from lemmy.world.
This leaves me with a few questions:
- Is downvote federation going to be implemented?
- If so, is it a priority or something that’ll happen much further down the line?
- If not, will downvoting be removed?
A boost is effectively a retweet. The thing you boost gets re-shared from you to the people that follow you … the stuff I boost with this account is gets added to my feed on my Mastodon account. You’re basically saying “damn, I love this comment and want to make sure everyone else gets a chance to see it too!”