It's so disheartening to see so many people complaining about boosts.
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It's so disheartening to see so many people complaining about boosts.
That means they're fundamentally misunderstanding Fediverse.
If there's no boosts, there's VERY little content because the entire Fediverse's "algorithm" is boosts and follows.
By hiding everyone's boosts, you're doing yourself and Fedi a disservice.
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It's so disheartening to see so many people complaining about boosts.
That means they're fundamentally misunderstanding Fediverse.
If there's no boosts, there's VERY little content because the entire Fediverse's "algorithm" is boosts and follows.
By hiding everyone's boosts, you're doing yourself and Fedi a disservice.
@BeAware can you explain the difference between Fediverse and Mastodon?
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@BeAware can you explain the difference between Fediverse and Mastodon?
@butterflybean absolutely!
Fediverse is a slang term for "Federated universe" which is generally described as any software that uses the protocol called ActivityPub that carries content across websites.
So Fediverse = All ActivityPub softwares.
Mastodon, is one of MANY softwares that use the ActivityPub protocol. It has a "Twitter-like" UI.
However, you may have heard of Pixelfed, it has an "Instagram-like" UI and only supports media posts.
Peertube is like YouTube and only supports video.
There are others that do other things as well and they can all mostly be seen and interacted with via your mastodon account because of ActivityPub!
To do this, if you find a Pixelfed post on a Pixelfed site that you'd like to interact with, just copy the link to the post and paste it into the search bar of your Mastodon instance.
This works for every post that comes from an ActivityPub software.
Sorry for the long winded post but I am VERY passionate about Fediverse and hope you like it here.
I really hope this helps and isn't too confusing. Let me know if you have any more questions!
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It's so disheartening to see so many people complaining about boosts.
That means they're fundamentally misunderstanding Fediverse.
If there's no boosts, there's VERY little content because the entire Fediverse's "algorithm" is boosts and follows.
By hiding everyone's boosts, you're doing yourself and Fedi a disservice.
On the one hand while I do clearly agree, we should also probably talk about the value of replying?
I think a lot of folks across a lot of platforms have forgotten about rhe possibility of engaging in polite or pleasant conversation
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On the one hand while I do clearly agree, we should also probably talk about the value of replying?
I think a lot of folks across a lot of platforms have forgotten about rhe possibility of engaging in polite or pleasant conversation
@PaxGeoffrey @BeAware that, and then they complain about lacking "reach"; if you never interact, how are you going to get your reach anyway? It takes a few months to get the feed to the state you want, but discovery is mostly done through replies, I think even more than boosts.
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@PaxGeoffrey @BeAware that, and then they complain about lacking "reach"; if you never interact, how are you going to get your reach anyway? It takes a few months to get the feed to the state you want, but discovery is mostly done through replies, I think even more than boosts.
@mirabilos @PaxGeoffrey I'm so glad that both of you have said and agreed that replies are important.
It's how I've gotten most of my follow relationships.
However, Fediverse works by follow relationships so if someone on your instance doesn't follow someone that's doing the replying, the posts won't show.
I hope they find a way to start federating replies better. The current way confuses people and makes it harder for single user instances to discover things.
I've always said, "It's social media, talk TO me, not AT me."
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@mirabilos @PaxGeoffrey I'm so glad that both of you have said and agreed that replies are important.
It's how I've gotten most of my follow relationships.
However, Fediverse works by follow relationships so if someone on your instance doesn't follow someone that's doing the replying, the posts won't show.
I hope they find a way to start federating replies better. The current way confuses people and makes it harder for single user instances to discover things.
I've always said, "It's social media, talk TO me, not AT me."
@PaxGeoffrey @BeAware that’s not entirely true any more:
so if someone on your instance doesn't follow someone that's doing the replying, the posts won't show.
If you zoom in on a post, thread context gets loaded via the parent link and the replies collection. Of course, domain blocks and followers-only visibility still rip apart threads, but you do get most of the replies normally.
Just not in the home timeline… which generally is a plus, as you’d only look at the replies of promising posts.
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@PaxGeoffrey @BeAware that’s not entirely true any more:
so if someone on your instance doesn't follow someone that's doing the replying, the posts won't show.
If you zoom in on a post, thread context gets loaded via the parent link and the replies collection. Of course, domain blocks and followers-only visibility still rip apart threads, but you do get most of the replies normally.
Just not in the home timeline… which generally is a plus, as you’d only look at the replies of promising posts.
@mirabilos @PaxGeoffrey did this change recently?
As far as I knew, this was still an issue, which is why I (and a lot of others) run FediFetcher by @michael
GitHub - nanos/FediFetcher: FediFetcher is a tool for Mastodon that automatically fetches missing replies and posts from other fediverse instances, and adds them to your own Mastodon instance.
FediFetcher is a tool for Mastodon that automatically fetches missing replies and posts from other fediverse instances, and adds them to your own Mastodon instance. - nanos/FediFetcher
GitHub (github.com)
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@mirabilos @PaxGeoffrey did this change recently?
As far as I knew, this was still an issue, which is why I (and a lot of others) run FediFetcher by @michael
GitHub - nanos/FediFetcher: FediFetcher is a tool for Mastodon that automatically fetches missing replies and posts from other fediverse instances, and adds them to your own Mastodon instance.
FediFetcher is a tool for Mastodon that automatically fetches missing replies and posts from other fediverse instances, and adds them to your own Mastodon instance. - nanos/FediFetcher
GitHub (github.com)
@BeAware @mirabilos @PaxGeoffrey @michael yeah it's still an issue in mastodon as far as I'm aware
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/32615 this is the pull request that should fix it, but it's still in development over the last few months