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. 😂
I can understand having boosts turned off for some people.
If you just want to see their original top level posts, if they are super active ... (uh like I am) it could be annoying.
I don't think it's ... like a block.
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I just want a "don't show me stuff I've already seen" feature in whatever app (or the desktop). Boosts I've never seen from people I follow: perfectly fine. The same post boosted five times in two days, multiplied by 100 other equally scintillating posts: less fine.
I'm on board with that "we're the algorithm" thing, but I think there's room for improvement.
Re follower counts: participation ==> moar followers, just by virtue of getting under people's noses.
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