@mxtthxw - who boosted Eugen's post.

You gotta know he's muted that thread *years* ago and none of the recent commentators are talking to each other. Just to him.

All just replying to the thread, including only Gargron as a CC, and he definitely has it muted. Surely.

They're not even replying to each other.

I guess some people must be reading recent replies. I skimmed a few.

Quote-tweet function is not up to Gargon of course.

If you want it you can have it!

There are Mastodon forks that include it, and there are other ActivityPub systems which use it too!

You can even embed a post from mastodon in another mastodon post if you just copy/paste the URL of that post.

Are they doing the Fediverse equivalent of a quote-tweet, and doing a reply which they themselves boost?

The three randomly recentish ones I looked at hadn't done so.

So i guess not.

Unless you check their instance you'll won't know. Your local instance just might not have seen the boost. I sampled only three.

Anyway. What I'm saying is, almost everyone talking on this thread is talking to /dev/null right now except you and me. Coz I actually included someone who hasn't muted it yet.

And nobody else will see it unless you boost it.