I noticed my recent posts say "1 boost" but when I look to see who boosted them, it says there's no boosts. I never got a notification for them. What could be causing that?

(Will it happen to this post?)

edit: well no boost on this one yet... it looks like it's my #Ideon posts. I use a bunch of hashtags on those, maybe one is getting picked up by a bot?

#test #boosts #fediverse

@lalah There has been that “Test Relay” thing that might be causing it lately… but I’m not sure what is the cause of this.

It might be coming from a server we have limited for some reason, so it might be in the filtered notifications, which is a new feature in Mastodon 4.3.

@chikorita157 I did have a relay account boosting stuff seemingly randomly a while ago, but I thought it was annoying so I blocked it. Is there another account or does blocking it just not do anything?

@lalah @chikorita157 if you block relay accounts, you're cutting yourself off from a big part of the Fediverse...

I literally wouldn't be able to see half of Fedi posts if I didn't use a ton of relays. I'm on my own instance and since Fediverse works by follow relationships, I can't possibly follow every single person on Fedi.