Yes, I know browser bookmarks exist. But there must be some native functionality that I keep just not noticing - right?
Kbin doesn’t currently support saving.
I bookmark things for now on my local browser. Afaik, the feature is in the to do list so I’ll save what I can from from the bookmarks manually once that’s done.
If you upvote a post it will put it in your Favorites. You can access favorites by hovering over the hamburger menu just to the left of your username in the top right corner. To upvote without putting it in your favorites, you can use boost instead. This is essentially how you save posts on kbin.
Yes but on reddit, upvotes puts something in your upvoted list and you can save selectively, which is a much better system for organization.
Boosts and upvotes have a slightly different functionality here that I do upvote and/or boost posts and comments differently, none of which is to add the post to my favorites. Even though it can be used that way for the same effect, it’s a different use case.
What if I want to save a post I didn’t want to boost or favorite? Should I not be able to save a comment I disagree with that I also downvoted?
That’s a fair point that I didn’t consider - saving something you’ve downvoted. It’s not something I’ve ever done and it didn’t even cross my mind. You’re right that there isn’t a specific save function, and the Favorites feature is limited in this case. Also the boosts button in my profile is broken (gives me an error) so I can’t keep track of what I’ve boosted, currently.
Having a separate space that isn’t tied to either of this would be more ideal. I’ve mostly been using upvotes sparingly, and boosts more liberally, in order to keep my Favorites clean. I understand boosting ties a thread publicly to my username so there may be things you’d want to upvote but not have associated with you to the general public, but in that case your Favorites would get messy.
I just upvote/like the content, then it comes up on my profile. Same with boosts, comments, etc.
I know it’s not the best answer ever, but fyi we do have this on Lemmy so if it’s a super important feature to you there’s always that option.
Ok so Kbin and Lemmy are two different softwares. My server, lemm.ee, runs on the Lemmy software and yours, kbin.social runs on Kbin. On Lemmy, discussion groups are called “communities” and on Kbin they’re basically the same thing but are called “magazines”.
Luckily with my Lemmy account I can still subscribe to Kbin magazines like the one we’re chatting in right now, and you can subscribe to Lemmy communities, and they’ll show up in our respective feeds along with everything else.
I can only speak to how things look from the Lemmy side for obvious reasons, but if I hover over your username it shows me that you’re Discotheque@kbin.social
Most of the time it doesn’t matter which platform the person you’re talking to is actually using, but obviously when we get into discussion of platform-specific features like this it makes sense to check and avoid giving anyone info for the wrong platform of the two.
Hope that makes sense, it sounds longwinded and confusing when you type it out but it’s pretty easy to get used to :)
(also welcome!)
@runningfromreddit I think this functionality may be missing right now. I’ve been boosting everything that I find save-worthy. I can see everything I’ve boosted from my profile.
Boost
Boost is not the same. A boost is like a retweet. It’s public and anyone following you will see it in their feed.
While that’s true it still works as a sort of save button since you can see all the comments and posts you boosted easily in your profile, just as if you’d saved them. If you don’t have any followers (or you don’t mind sharing content you want to save with your followers) using the boost button as a work around until we get a save feature isn’t a bad idea.