For those new to mastodon...
There is no algorithm there. (for better or worse, mostly better)
Boosts are the *only* way that a post will get more visibility.
Bookmarks = I'd like to find this again in the future
Star/favorite = I read this, and it didn't suck.
Boost = more people should see this.
@zebpalmer I have trouble understanding "more visibility".
I mean: when I pull up the fediverse timeline, or my local instance timeline ... I expect to see *everything* (unless a poster has hidden it) ... since there is no algorithm filtering/prioritising posts.
So how can anything be *more* visible? 🤔
Can you help me understand what is not visible? So I can use this platform well.
Thanks. :-)
@deborahh the federated timeline contains posts by accounts that other people on your server are following. It doesn't show stuff from people your server doesn't know about. Thus, it's not everything -- though it's still quite a firehose on an active server.
But if someone you follow boosts something, it shows up in your main/home feed making it more visible to you.
Zeb Palmer
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