Yes, I know browser bookmarks exist. But there must be some native functionality that I keep just not noticing - right?
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.
No worries, it’s a valid suggestion!
I’ve been searching for this functionality on kbin as well, but I don’t think it’s implemented yet. JustinFTL’s recommendation to boost stuff is not private, while usually the saved items are.
Upvoting isn’t private either, you can scroll to the bottom of any post on kbin and see a list of everyone who has “favourited” a post. All of your own also get collected to https://kbin.social/fav
Upvoting can’t be private (how would you know what others have upvoted), but saving should be private.
Serverside not the way it’s implemented I’d imagine, no, but there is no need to have it displayed so prominently on the UI for the users - it isn’t on Lemmy for example.
Though it’s more understandable if you think of the implemention more like Twitter/Mastodon likes rather than Reddit upvotes, but as a Reddit refugee, it just feels weird to me personally.
Boost
wait, what does the boost do?
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.
Yep, I really just wanted to point out that it’s public, for those that aren’t aware.
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.
