a small difference, but important to how people use the site

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Yea, i’m working on my own Fedi software and i’m struggling with the point of boosting in the link aggregator context. It’s an odd overlap with Reddit-style reposting to appropriate subs, but based on the user.

It makes sense in the Twitter UX, but i struggle to find it’s place in the Reddit UX.

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I think boosts have potential to be used for crossposts, and the current implementation are just crossposts to your profile. Though they’re likely here right now just because Kbin is a mix between thread and microblog software

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yeahhhhhhh if boost came with like a menu: “Boost to: -Your Personal Microblog -Magazine’s Microblog [pick] -Magazine as Article [pick]”

then the feature would be pretty baller

(actually im not sure if your personal microblog exists so…maybe just the other 2)

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Boosting is super important in all contexts in the Fediverse.

When am instance subscribes to a content source - be that a user actor or a group actor - on behalf of a user, it only requests future content. Back catalogues are not fetched by default. Boosting re-publishes the content, so that it is received by new followers.

With a group actor, the boost triggers the actor to reboot the content itself, sending it out to new subscribers to the group, and filling in that back catalogue.

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7 points

I like this comment but I don’t know what im supposed to do about it

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1 point

Boost things.

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if old content isnt fetched for a newly subscribed instance to see, how are users going to boost that content in the first place?

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Users who can see the content need to boost it?

Users who use the website that the community is hosted on have access to the full library of it. They need to boost stuff. And people who subscribe from remote sites need to boost older content that they’ve seen.

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I see it as similar to the “save” function on Reddit, except it’s public. I’ve started using it on things that I think I might like to read again later (and so by extension anyone who’s “like me” would probably want to read it too).

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