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   FediTips has moved! (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Mar-2023 23:30:24 JST FediTips has moved!

   If you want people's advice about any topic, type your question and tag it with #AskFedi, which is kind of like a bat signal for advice on the Fediverse ?

   If you want a post to be shared, try adding "Boosts appreciated!". Some servers may even have an emoji for this such as :boost_ok:

   By the way, remember that if you want your post shared publicly you have to give it a Public or Unlisted visibility setting. (More info about post visibility settings here: https://fedi.tips/who-can-see-my-posts-in-mastodon-how-do-i-send-dms-in-mastodon/)

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     FediTips has moved! (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Mar-2023 23:43:54 JST FediTips has moved!

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     • Lee (Pilchard) Stacey

     @pilchard

     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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     Lee (Pilchard) Stacey (pilchard@tweetrex.co.uk)'s status on Saturday, 25-Mar-2023 23:43:55 JST Lee (Pilchard) Stacey

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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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     FediTips has moved! (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Mar-2023 23:49:29 JST FediTips has moved!

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     • Lee (Pilchard) Stacey

     @pilchard

     All that people can do when passing on traditions is say what they are, explain why they exist, and hope others don't misuse them.

     As far as I can tell from the people I follow, they are normally used appropriately.

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     Lee (Pilchard) Stacey (pilchard@tweetrex.co.uk)'s status on Saturday, 25-Mar-2023 23:49:30 JST Lee (Pilchard) Stacey

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     @feditips Yet. See above.

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     FediTips has moved! (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-Mar-2023 02:07:12 JST FediTips has moved!

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     p.s. To clarify, the idea of "boosts appreciated" is if you have a post that you particularly want or need people to share.

     So, for example, if you're trying to get advice on something really important, you might add "Boosts appreciated" at the end.

     It's not meant to be used for shallow attention seeking.

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     Jan Thie (jantar@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-Mar-2023 03:28:02 JST Jan Thie

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     @feditips

     A bit less judge-y, please.

     I'm still relatively new here and I only started politely asking for boosts AFTER people who had been here much longer wrote that asking for it was not a bad idea, because a lot of people might need reminding that boosting was an option.

     I'm perfectly fine with not asking but it's not as if it is easy to find the (correct) etiquette rules to this place...
     ... so why not start with the assumption that people here are of good will?