Mastodawn

myrmepropagandist Nov 10, 2024

My Fediverse Advice:

* Follow more people. No, even more people than that. Basically, if you find a real person and their posts are good follow 'em
* If you get a good reply to a post boost it. If you make a good reply to a post boost it. Replies are not visible in the feed unless you do this. As long as the post is an OK start to a conversation or interesting boost it.
* Write thoughtful replies. And if you put effort into a reply boost it or probably only the people tagged will see it.

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GJ Groothedde 🇪🇺Nov 10, 2024

@futurebird Self-boosting is frowned upon, but I feel this is a mistake.

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My camera shoots fascists Nov 10, 2024

@Eetschrijver @futurebird
Where? On other platforms, it's weird, but here it seems quite acceptable and lots of people do it. Took me a while to get used to it, but it makes sense if you post something late at night to give it a bump in the morning when more people are online.

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Cecelia

@Mikal @Eetschrijver I’ve seen boosts of self-promotional posts to the point where the same posts showed up multiple times in my feed as I scrolled. With no algorithm to distribute, it got pretty repetitive.

That said, I may reboost older posts once or twice on a limited basis if I deem it important enough. I have boosted a reply in instances where I didn’t want to boost a post without context (or if it contained an image missing alt text).

@futurebird