Julio Sánchez
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Don't forget to boost posts so that others can see them.
This is important to keep Mastodon lively.
We are the algorithm here.
Young@Em0nM4stodon What exactly does boosting a post do?
Frank Heijkamp@PastramiParker @Em0nM4stodon A boosted post will become part of your timeline and people that follow you will see the post in their feeds.
The other way around you will see posts that are boosted by people you follow.
The other way around you will see posts that are boosted by people you follow.
Blippy the Wonder Slug 🇩🇪@PastramiParker @Em0nM4stodon
Boost = re-post, and puts a copy of that post onto your timeline/feed, sharing it with everyone who follows you, or reads your timeline.
Boost = re-post, and puts a copy of that post onto your timeline/feed, sharing it with everyone who follows you, or reads your timeline.
@PastramiParker
Also, taking a quick glance at your profile, Dr Blippy prescribes:
¹ Find an image you connect with, and put on an avatar. Naked people with fresh accounts are often taken for (spam-/scam-)mers
² Nothing will appear on your feed that you didn't ask for. Follow far, and follow wide. Hashtags, too. It's not a tattoo, you can always unfollow.
³ Don't forget about AltText on images. There are many visually impaired folks here.
⁴ Welcome! Have fun!
EndlessMason@BlippyTheWonderSlug Loving the super-script numbers for list items.
Dominik@PastramiParker @Em0nM4stodon It shares it with your followers. Meaning it helps it reach wider audiences.
Internet RandoSay I follow you
your post shows up in my feed.
IDK who's following you, what i do know is,
BOOST
and now everyone following *me* sees *your* post now.
Often I'll only see (your) post(s) if someone I'm following boosts you..
If you're interesting/local to me, I might follow you, too.
If that happens, now I don't have to wait for someone I'm following to boost you.. And when you post, we follow different people, I'll boost for my followers. It's retweet.
Musing Mouse@Em0nM4stodon I was shocked to see that I have about 600 boosts in the two or so months I’ve been on this platform. But that’s how this platform works so I have to do it and so should everyone else.
Radio_Jem
metalbass 🤘🏴☠️Which movie is this, please?
The Prisoner: Season 1 Episode 1 - Arrival | Full Episode
STUDIOVHF@Em0nM4stodon but don't overdo it! I mute boosts from accounts that do just that.
Roni Rolle Laukkarinen@studiovhf @Em0nM4stodon I boost a lot. There is not - and should not be - a limit or "overdoing" it. Sure as heck no one's going to tell me not to. It's your right to mute boosts - feel free to continue doing so, but please don't be a boost police.
LR@Em0nM4stodon my boost debt is cleared by boosting this post
Gillinger
TriciaB
Barbara Sliwinska@Em0nM4stodon question on 'favorites' (⭐)
they are not the same as 'likes' on fb or x-ter and so on?... bcause if U click it - this NOT inc visibility of post, only save link to original post on Ur profile/'saved'?...
they are not the same as 'likes' on fb or x-ter and so on?... bcause if U click it - this NOT inc visibility of post, only save link to original post on Ur profile/'saved'?...
matt@Barbara_Sliwinska @Em0nM4stodon likes are more like showing "I like it" - yeah it also saves this toot as "liked", but as you mention here likes don't increase post visibility
@matt @Em0nM4stodon thank U!... i just noticed so, thats why ask
Jesse SpielmanDoes anyone else neurotically worry they’re over boosting and annoying their followers? I try to boost no more than 2/3 things per day. Maybe this is a conversation for my therapist?
@Em0nM4stodon irony levels out of control here on the boost @jacktrek
Sunflower Björnskalle 🌻@Em0nM4stodon Indeed, boost all of my bangers.
Muro deGrizecoWhat an awesome phrase,
"boost all of my bangers!"
Subject to so many interpretations. I like it. and will use it to confuse my kids at breastfast.
Perhaps hot sauce on some veggie sausages?
@murodegrizeco @Em0nM4stodon So, are those legally my bangers now? If so, I'd like you to mail them to me immediately. 😏
I would certainly be happy to share them with you!
Probably won't be able to mail them though, as I am in a country that might not have a functioning postal system soon.
@murodegrizeco @Em0nM4stodon Is that Denmark or the US? It's hard to tell these days. So much is going wrong. 😆
maple@Em0nM4stodon The problem with that, if you are using the official Web client, is you then see all the posts you boosted again in your timeline. So if you boost often, your Home timeline gets cluttered with all the messages you have not only already read, but also boosted.
I think this is one of the big reasons most users don't boost much, and indeed I feel like it may be a reason some people leave #Mastodon entirely and go to #Bluesky or a similar platform.
I like Mastodon a lot but I don't ever want to have to read any post more than once. Keep shoving the same post in my face and you not only waste my time, you also make me start to really dislike your platform. But apparently the Mastodon developers don't give a flying fig.
I would put this near the top of the list of "reasons people stop using Mastodon" (the other big one is that the web-based clients can't seem to remember where you left off reading the timeline if you accidentally close the browser or need to reboot your system). And even the alternative web-based clients, such as Elk and Phanpy, don't address these issues.
GoodNewsGreyShoes🔞(on hiatus)@Em0nM4stodon You got it! 
*cracks knuckles*
Took two years to reach six digits - let's see how fast we can get to seven!🔥
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