These are the guidelines that I follow about boosting or not boosting something. These guidelines make sense to me. I do not care if they make sense to you or not. I also reserve the right to make rare exceptions when I see it fit, but I have to warn you that I don’t need to be consistent with my exceptions, and that a post has to hit a specific note for me to ignore my rules.
Also, I’ll note here that your popularity elsewhere, or even in the fediverse, does not matter. I regularly don’t boost posts by celebrities who do not use hashtags.
Ultimately, you don’t get to decide how I apply my rules.
Understood?
I try to be a considerate booster. If you know me at all, you know that I don’t like people who have nothing to say but boost all the things. Ironically, I eventually catch on to their shenanigans and end up muting them, so I don’t see all the things that they boost, and they want me to see so badly. If I follow you, it is because I’d like to hear about you. Conversely, I’m selective in my boosting, for the reasons given above.
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By far, the most common case in which I see a post that I would like to boost, but don’t, is when it has no hashtags. This is not merely my own itch that I’m trying to scratch here. Some people do not want to see certain types of contents. Proper tagging helps them know what your content is about, and helps them filter out this content if they don’t want to see it.
For these people, this filtering is self-care. When you post a post without tags, then they cannot care for themselves.
I also don’t boost posts that are merely “boost this post if you [something banal.]” Things like “please boost if you like cats,” “please boost if you are above 50,” etc. Note that I do not include in this group well written posts that ask to boost for awareness. Boosting for awareness is generally worthwhile, whereas boosting for the platitudes I put above ain’t.
Furthermore, I no longer boost posts that are from objectionable sources. Fox News is the prime example here. If it is newsworthy, there is certainly another source you could have picked. If Fox News is the only source, it is most likely a lie. In fact, I don’t even see these posts anymore because I filter them out.
Finally, I don’t boost posts that are just a link. Oh, maybe the link itself gives an idea of what the page I’m going to find at the other end is all about. Maybe I even follow that link and think what a great article! I won’t boost. I hate naked links in posts. Tell us why you agreed or disagreed with the article you link to.
I probably have more rules, but they are not coming up to mind right this moment, and are likely not as important as the rules above.
Ich habe auf meiner #Timeline die #Boosts ausgeschaltet, würde aber gerne #Gruppen wie @filmeundserien abonnieren. Ohne Boosts zuzulassen, geht das meines Wissens nicht.
Gibt es ne Möglichkeit alle Boosts meiner Follower gleichzeitig stumm- bzw. abzuschalten? 🤔 Oder irgendeine andere Lösung?
(abgesehen von einem Browserbookmark der Gruppe, das ich dann sicher vergesse anzuschauen)
Hello Fediverse musicians! I'm once again reaching out to those who want to join #fedivision2024. I've had great fun cooperating with various people for two previous Fedivisions, so if you need a musician, I'm game. I play a variety of instruments and sing in a few languages. I seldom find time to write songs, but if you have a song idea, I could perhaps be your session #fedivision#musician! #Boosts welcome.
#Boosts#Favs While favs are always appreciated for toots, they're static. If you REALLY want to spread a message, an image, news, information, comments, replies etc, then #boosts are the way to let more people view & potentially connect! TY 😊
Phanpy.social every so often shows a collection of #boosts in your timeline but in a superbly intuitive way.
Instead of having to scroll through these boosts vertically and miss out on other stuff, it appears as one post in the timeline which you then scroll through horizontally. Genius!
One of my favourite features of the #fediverse are #boosts, as they allow sharing content without stealing it, as it's so common on Instagram. This makes it all the more annoying that this feature is so poorly supported by @pixelfed.
@dansup, are there any plans for full support for boosts in 2024?
Ch.7 #Likes vs #Boosts / #RePosts
⭐(& other reaction buttons) are the❤️button but this only tells the author I like their post, nobody else. It does not make the post more visible.
🔁Boost🔁Repost etc moves info around. That shows the post to my followers home feed.
There is no algorithm deciding for us. We choose, not some algorithm under corporate control. We choose by 🔁boosting🔁 posts and by using #hashtags. More things get seen here. Wider ranges of conversation topics happen here. It's more organic, much more human.
#Boosts#Favs While favs are always appreciated for toots, they're by definition static. if you REALLY want to spread a message, an image, news, information, comments, replies etc, then boosts are the way to let more people view & potentially connect! TY 😊
Today, I'll be conducting more experiments with snac2. Until yesterday, I had been running it with 16 threads.
Today, I'll try with 32 to observe the load and how it responds when posting while simultaneously using the web interface. With 16 threads, there was a (slight) slowdown during queue processing; let's see if things change with 32.
I'll also delve into some more niche aspects - I've noticed a couple of details regarding boosts that don't always seem to be displayed by Mastodon (a behavior I've also encountered on Pixelfed).
I'll investigate.
If you are annoyed by people who boost too much (like me 😁 ), you need not mute them! Just go to their profile and choose behind the 3 dots "hide boosts from @ xy". This is also the easiest way to get only original posts by a followee.
How many days meant to wait after stopping #opiates before starting #LDN? Have prescribed LDN. It used to be 3 days standard but now? Dosage? I got 1.5mg but can pull apart capsules.
What happens when start LDN?
Your experiences also help. I know many out there been through this.
System has pretty much abandoned me. Don’t ever live in wrong postcode.😔
@simevidas@kizu
I could see a developer-oriented browser, like Polypane, adding it.
I thought CSP was only a problem for bookmarklets, not extensions. GitHub.com has a pretty limiting CSP that prevents bookmarklets from modifying the DOM but not a browser extension.
Currently I just need to find out what went wrong and see how I can make OS/1337 go brrrrrr.
So if anyone has any ideas, please feel free to contact me: https://mstdn.social/@kkarhan/111409592616485280
Also #boosts appreciated!
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