I've been creeping around looking at a lot of people's accounts (I'm doing a survey) Noticed that people with very few followers have one thing in common: they have not boosted the posts of other people often if at all.
(When I see posts like this encouraging boosting I always think "well that person just wants boosts, whatever") That's not it. On twitter it was important to only boost exceptional content -- boost here to invite more people to join in talking about something. #mastodonhowto
Some people I'm friends with have other people's boosts turned off, which is strange to me (why follow someone who annoys you at all?) but then sometimes boost stuff themselves... 🤦♂️
That seems hypocritical to me, sorry friends. 😂
@scottaw @futurebird I have some follows which I follow because they tend to post cool stuff. Or because I consider them friends.
And then they decide to go in a frenzy and start boosting kinky or noisy stuff that I'm not in the mood to watch (like tragedy / outrage posts that I've already seen all the 🤬 day and I'm out of spoons already). Or that obnoxious image bot that I hate...
"Hide boosts" does it for me. Minimal conflict and I still get to see my friend's self posts.
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