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a small difference, but important to how people use the site

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[โ€“] Kichae@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

How it's interpreted it is entirely up to the UI layer. On microblogs, it's surfaced as a retweet-like behaviour, but it's not surfaced at all here, really, except on kbin where it's used to report who has reboosted something.

At its core, it's a republish button, and just as if you were to republish someone else's blog post on your own blog, people can see, if they look closely enough, that you've done it.

[โ€“] artillect@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

If you follow someone on kbin, and they boost a thread, it'll show up in your feed. It's sorta like crossposting to your user page on reddit