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Leeloo
@leeloo@chaosfem.tw

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Boosting... Specifically, your own posts.

Boosting your own post right away doesn't do anything useful.

Boosting your own post a few days later brings it back into the timeline for anyone who missed it the first time around.

But how about boosting your own reply? If a reply is also relevant outside of the discussion, is there any advantage to boosting it? Would more people see it? I mean boosts are not a part of the thread, but does that make any difference?

Once upon a time I thought yes, but later came to the opposite conclusion. I'm guessing you know the definitive answer.

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Fedi.Tips
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services

@leeloo@chaosfem.tw

The idea of boosting your own post or reply is to make it more visible to people in different timezones, or to highlight it days/weeks/months later.

Because the main Home timeline is chronological, posts tend to be seen in countries that are awake at that point. So, you might boost a post/reply e.g. 12 hours later to reach people in different countries.

If a reply has particularly useful info, you might boost it for the same reasons as a post.