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Circa 60,000 active users, but whatever...
You are rather missing my point. Because it sorts on boosts rather than upvotes it surfaces different things in the federated 'all' feed.
Edit: As corrected below it's about 10k monthly active users, but that's still circa 10% of the whole threadiverse (kbin + Lemmy) and only Lemmy.world is larger than kbin.social
What's the difference between a boost and an upvote?
I think a boost is referring to the Mastodon kind, so basically a retweet
Indeed. Activity pub includes favourites and boosts.
Lemmy uses favourites as an upvote. Kbin does too, but kbin also allows boots and it considers that a boost (which is like a retweet) is a more significant endorsement so sorting and reputation is based more on boosts than on upvotes.