Temperatures in parts of Chile and northern Argentina have soared to 10°C–20°C above average over the last few days. Towns in the Andes mountains have reached 38°C or more, while Argentina’s capital, Buenos Aires, saw temperatures above 30°C—breaking its previous August record by more than 5°C. Temperatures peaked at 39°C in the town of Rivadavia.

  • DONTBANTHISACCOUNT@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Hi. Ye … I totally have zero hope in anything anymore, politics, global climate change, global inequality… Looks like things aren’t getting better…

    BTW what does boost mean?

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      BTW what does boost mean?

      I believe boost is similar to upvote on Kbin. I’m not sure what the difference between boost and upvote is.

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        Upvoting is like favoriting something, but a boost bumps something up so it’s more likely to appear on the trending section.

        So upvote means “I like it” and boosting means “more people should see it,” from what I understand.

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        Basically it moves content up. Having a few boosts has the same power as a ton of upvotes. Works in comments too.

        It’s used as a way to move quality content and posts into people’s views. I don’t know if it affects visibility on Lemmy though.