Is there any way to make "votes" (equivalent thereof) private? I don't want to have to think "do I want other people to know that I've liked this" every time I vote on something and that was a big draw to reddit for me compared to something like twitter.
Or someone checks through the activity of obscure posts and happens to find someone they know liking something they dislike or disagree with. It's not me, but my suggestion stands!
The best you've got right now is using it as an unofficial web app. Go to the site and under the menu add it to your Homescreen. The rest will come with time.
It's mainly a feature of other ActivityPub platforms (it's the equivalent of a retweet on mastodon) so I'm sure it's partially there for cross-compatability between them.
My issue with premium is that it doesn't fix so much of the other shit that revanced fixes for me on the mobile app (I don't want shorts, community posts, I want my dislike button etc) that I'd be using revanced anyway. And at that point I can just also block ads. If piracy gets you a better experience than that of paying customers, then you have an issue with your product.
No, upvotes used to be boosts but they switched them recently and haven't updated the reputation to reflect that (probably because the servers were on fire)