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   Glyph (glyph@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2025 10:49:03 JST Glyph

   It is a fascinating and delightful affordance of mastodon that when I want people to pay special attention to something I can just say "boost this please" and then people boost it, and it's fine. This behavior on Twitter was a taboo and no matter how earnestly I had good reasons for emphasizing certain tweets over others, begging for retweets felt like the most pathetic form of engagement baiting and I was _extremely_ reluctant to do it.

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     Elyse M Grasso (elysegrasso@historians.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 01:14:24 JST Elyse M Grasso

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     @glyph

     On Mastodon, we are the algorithm.

     Besides things that matter to me personally, I have a policy of always boosting job openings and job hunting posts. I generally try to boost other posts that might useful to other readers, or where someone is looking for information in a non-annoying way, even if it is not a topic that interests me strongly.

     As a former librarian I also tend to boost publication announcements unless they are very badly structured...

     That's my algorithm.