Artemis might use a swipe gesture to visually hint at the relation between upvoting and boosting, as shown in the main animation. Here’s a static app mockup with both swipe levels displayed. I’d also imagine that there should be a setting that auto-upvotes posts when boosting.
It’s not just one single thing tho, more of an upvote/share combo. I go into more detail about that in the main post on @kbinMeta. While the mockup doesn’t necessarily make it obvious, I think it still adds to the understanding a bit more than just having a text button.
But yeah, changing the icon might work. Just throwing out ideas to provoke some discussion within the community.
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.
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.
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.