Dr. Farhana SultanaRebuilding the same level of communication & community that took years to curate on Twitter will take a lot of time on Mastodon. There will be losses to public discourse & information sharing I'm sure. I still hope that folks will find me on this new site! #TwitterMigration #followfriday
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Nairita@farhanasultana Hi Dr. Sultana, so happy to find you here. Still figuring out this space, and if boosted equals retweeting !
David Sacerdote@nairita A boost is like a retweet - it means that people following you will get it in their feed.
Big differences:
Everyone is looking at a feed of most recent posts, so no secret algorithm serves to amplify content.
Since there's no opaque algorithm, marking a post as a favorite or clicking a link or otherwise interacting with a post other than boosting doesn't cause more people to see it.