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As far as I know, it really is primarily a share button. While it does give people 2 reputation points (which I don't think people should be caring about), the main purpose of the boost is to be a retweet button, not a super upvote. That's probably why it's set aside on the UI, and it's probably why it has the same name as Mastodon's retweet equivalent. This visual you have looks cool, but I think it changes the UI from unclear to misleading.
I think that's how it functions for Mastodon, but Lemmy and Kbin use boost more as "+2 upvotes", as it's used as the scoring metric for the sorting algos.
You're probably right, but the current iteration seems misleading to me as well. I just feel like there should be some way to make voting more coherent in general.