@Cassandra I’ve had a few hit those numbers (pinning them to my profile helped I’m sure), and I’m pretty sure the larger beige accounts have as well, on occasion. It’s certainly not often for me. I do feel like some of this is really a numbers game: how many people are actually seeing the toot depends on time of day, how many followers you have, etc. I think someone with 5000 followers is going to get boosted more than someone with 500. (And length of time tooting and just being on the Fediverse increases your follower account.) But some brilliant toots (speaking of others toots) still barely take off sometimes and I have no idea why. The toots of mine that take off the most aren’t necessarily my favorite, but I’m guessing they have the widest appeal.
Sorry for the rant.
Also depends on if some hashtags are included and if it's on a current "hot" topic.
I recently had a toot go fungal (I prefer describing it as fungal instead of viral, sounds nicer lol) about privacy that hit 893 boosts and 1207 favs.
Other times a post just resonates I guess. Last year or the year before I had a post about dishwashers hit a couple hundred boosts 🤷♀️
I have 273 followers currently.
The privacy post or the dishwasher post? : D
The privacy post is here https://toot.lgbt/@totalclaireity/116049590628136071
The dishwasher post was quite a while ago and I can't find it but essentially it was how dishwashers use far less water and electricity than doing dishes by hand so stop feeling guilty about running it when it's not a full load.
Honestly though better to go watch @TechConnectify videos on dishwashers (and everything else). His first dishwasher video was in a reply to my thread : )
“What do you have to hide?“ Everything. Full stop. Period. Every. Thing. What I had for breakfast is my choice to put out in the world. Who I love, who my friends are, what we talk about, the books I read, the websites I visit, my favourite animal, my choice of shoelaces. It. Does. Not. Matter. How. “Big”. Or “Small”. Every. Thing. It’s all up to me to decide who I want to share anything with. #privacy #surveillance
Thank you for the kind words!
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i tooted the word 'pizza' and got two boosts. anything goes.
I don't think it's very common, but I do have one post from 2023 with 1.4K boosts. I did not expect it to resonate with so many people but I'm happy it did (for more awareness, not for popularity reasons)
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Heh! I'm one of the 1.4k 😁
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Send him my congrats!
Many folks don't know that people with certain disabilities (not me!) can ride bicycles. A lot of the discussion around encouraging bike riding excludes this group.
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That happens to me, too, at times.
I've found that clicking on "open original page" (that's what the option's called on the web interface, not sure about apps) gives a more accurate number for boosts.
My most popular toot has over 600 boosts. I don't have 600 followers. Maybe "viral" could be defined as "at least a hundred more boosts than followers"?
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