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@feditips I haven’t heard the desperate cry of “Please RT” since I left that other place. I see “boosts appreciated” going a similar way. Currently it’s all, “here’s this cool thing that will be good for you, me, and the community”, a la Twitter 2007. Soon it will be all, “GIVE ME LIKES FOLLOWS BOOSTS AND LOVE ME I’M INSECURE AND NEED YOUR VALIDATION”, a la Twitter 2022.

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I see how it might seem like that, but that's not how it's intended at all.

The idea of saying boosts appreciated is if someone has an especially strong reason for something to be shared, they can add this to the post.

It's also intended for people who have written something personal which may or may not seem polite to boost, to reassure people that boosting is indeed ok.

Obviously if someone puts that on all of their posts that's sort of abusing it, but most people don't do that.

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