It is the most unsatisfying feature on kbin.
We need something like this:
https://giphy.com/gifs/tri-indonesia-boost-triindonesia-duniatri-3BpyyvDfffs7t22Ged
It is the most unsatisfying feature on kbin.
We need something like this:
https://giphy.com/gifs/tri-indonesia-boost-triindonesia-duniatri-3BpyyvDfffs7t22Ged
I actually came to this thread hoping for what a boost actually does. So far as I can tell the functionality doesn’t exist on lemmy, or it’s hidden behind something else. I know it does something on Mastodon but never having used Mastodon I couldn’t tell you what that might be. Presumably it’s quite different from the up and down arrows which do exist on lemmy and I’m guessing are how the “hot” ranking algorithm works. Suppose I could go to the code and read it, if I get real curious, but if someone has a mental model already, or the right piece of documentation, and wouldn’t mind sharing it that’d be real appreciated.
A boost puts that post into your outbox, which means it’ll get sent to the inbox of any user who follows you. Lemmy doesn’t support following users which is why boosts aren’t visible there. Users on pleroma, misskey, streams, hubzilla, mastodon, and the rest of the microblogging fediverse can see boosts if they’re following you
I should probably stop boosting everything I find remotely noteworthy. Good thing no one follows me. I’d be a spam generator for them.
Eh. I think a combination of remembering how indifferently casual my sphere of tumblr and old Twitter used to be along with knowing the thing tied to reputation was initially boost instead of the formerly decorative upvote button (it’s fixed now) made me fairly free with who gets it.
Doesn’t have to be profound, just has to be something I really enjoyed or found important, and which I wouldn’t mind passing along to others. If I would normally hand the phone over to show it off irl, y’all get to look at it. Sometimes that’s breaking news. Sometimes that’s just a picture of a turtle.
I have like four people following me (hi peeps, why tho?) and honestly they made that decision. If they didn’t want to hear the things I wanna talk about, they wouldn’t choose to follow me and they should be amending that.