@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.

@LoganFive @Cassandra

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.

@Cassandra

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 : )