Fedi is the most strange thing in the world.

On normal social media, you write a message and people just ignore it forever.

Here, you write a message, it stays ignored for 1 or 2 years, and then all of a sudden, for no reason, with no explanation, someone finds it somehow, boosts it, and it gets 200 likes and 120 boosts.

What the fuck.

I'm sure someone will boost this message in 2021 or 2022.
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@proxeus I bet it's thanks to things like post search

@lanodan @proxeus

Boosted. How could I not 😄

@lanodan @proxeus pardon my ignorance, but how does post search work?
@tbanjos @proxeus On Mastodon it's a premium with Elastic Search.
On Pleroma while it still needs RAM for the index, it's built-in.
@lanodan @proxeus @tbanjos the Akkoma fork of Pleroma also supports Elastic Search, so that's an option.
@[email protected] cc @[email protected] hey it's happening lol
@gamer @proxeus what the fuck, didnt the admin of that instance delete that account???
@[email protected] @[email protected] idk man but look it's happening exactly as you planned
@enigmatico I miss my timeline being 90% Show by Rock girls
federation works in mysterious ways
@proxeus The prophecy has come to pass! =O
@proxeus Looks like that prediction came true! :3
@proxeus BTW we need the feature "boost the message in X months", it'd be much handier
@proxeus confirmed! i've seen this in 2022 via a boost, today!
@proxeus was a pleasure to help you 😜
@proxeus this toot aged too well.
@proxeus I'm pretty sure it's a artefact of ordering in DBs used in Pleroma and Mastodon. One day people search for something weird like "debnyan" and the index throws this on top.

@proxeus
@enigmatico

Someone scrolls down your timeline, and finds a post of yours that they like. 🤷‍♂️

Or a Word search brings it up? 🤷‍♂️

It takes 1-2 years for a person to build up any cred? 🤷‍♂️

You can live in infamy on the Fedi. 🤷‍♂️

Question is.

Do you like it, or hate it?

@extremexacc

@proxeus

self fulfilling prophecy mode ACTIVATED

@hotaru needs the debnyan logo

@proxeus if nothing else, to find out where they can install Debnyan
@proxeus I’ve noticed this. Recent stuff may get a like or a boost here or there, but stuff I posted a couple of years ago will get way more out of the blue. 🤷‍♂️

@proxeus

The main question I have is how does the catgirl not need a neck brace with the weight of that hair?

@enigmatico Imagine all of the instances that didn't exist when this was originally posted.
@tk @proxeus And the instances that did exist back then, but not anymore. I think Niu was a thing when I wrote that message 2 years ago.

Also is people still boosting that thing?
@tk
This account has moved at least twice since then
@enigmatico Love seeing this slide into my timeline again. Timeless prophetic content.
@proxeus 300+ boosts is going fedi viral
@enigmatico i think it's just the nature of federation and our servers not learning of each other right way. That and search doesn't care how old something is

@Fu

You missed the @ in @enigmatico

I look forward to seeing this intermittently over the next 5/6 years.

@proxeus I need this Linux distro so bad 😭
@proxeus Here you go 😁 Boosted.

@proxeus lol this doesn't even render correctly on mastodon web

"Feb 20, 20…"

@proxeus Twitter was like that in the early pre-algorithm days so in a way this is a return to form.
@proxeus I wish I was cool enough to get a boosted post.
@proxeus To be frank, I had a similar experience in "traditional" social media as well
@proxeus it’s like the Tom Holland video. Have to boost.