Just when I think I have somewhat of an understanding of the fediverse, there becomes more questions. So, I am the moderator for !dadjokes@lemmy.world and I see many “boosted” posts. Does that occur any time there is a comment on that post from Lemmy, or has someone made another account on Mastadon that is using the same photos from the dadjokes Lemmy community?

  • Andrew@piefed.socialEnglish
    13·
    2 days ago

    Yeah. ActivityPub has a type called ‘Announce’ that’s used to make your followers aware of activity by another account. Mastodon uses it only for ‘boosting’ another user’s content, but Lemmy’s communities use it for everything (‘Andrew has posted this comment’, 'Andrew has Liked this post’s, etc). Most of Lemmy’s activities are ignored by Mastodon, but the Announce of a post or a comment is interpreted as a Boost.

    It sort of works as a way to follow a community on Mastodon, but the individual boosting of all comments makes it annoying. I doubt anyone has set up a different account - you should be able to see the details of which actor is doing by clicking on it or hovering your mouse over it.

    Anyway, speaking of jokes, have you heard how many MBIN users it takes to screw in a lightbulb?
    Answer: 10. 1 to screw in the bulb, and 9 to tell you how great the software is. (I’m just kidding - there aren’t 10 MBIN users, it just seems like there are because it evidently comes with a massive crowbar used to derail every thread to bollock on about it).

  • stinerman [Ohio]English
    5·
    2 days ago

    My understanding is that if I follow @dadjokes@lemmy.world from Mastodon what happens is:

    • I will see all posts on that community
    • I will also see all replies to that post
    • The replies are listed in Mastodon as boosts from @dadjokes@lemmy.world

    For example:

    That’s what I see if I go to @dadjokes@lemmy.world from Mastodon.

    Is that what you are talking about regarding boosts?

    • loopy@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      Yeah, that is what I was referring to with boosting. I think I understand now. For a short while, it looked to me like there were replies on Mastadon that I didnt write, but apparently they are just all of the “boosted” posts coming from Lemmy comments. Thank you.

    • Ziggurat@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      Assuming it isn’t a rethoretical question : Mastodon is a micro-blogging platform (A twitter alternative) which was the first “big” platform to use Fediverse/Activity pub to decentralize (I am not sure what was created for mastodon and what was already there).

      And indeed, you can follow lemmy communities from Mastodon (but the UX isn’t great) or post to lemmy from Mastodon

  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 days ago

    Posts get boosted when someone compliments it on their shirt. Posts really enjoy it when you compliment it’s shirt. Even if it’s just a regular ol’ flannel shirt. The posts don’t really get compliments much, and so it really BOOSTS them!!!

    :D

    :D

    :D

    …what? I thought you liked dad jokes!

    • aasatru@kbin.earth
      5·
      2 days ago

      As far as I know there’s no option to boost posts from Lemmy, it’s an exclusive little function for Mbin and the microblogs.

      I quite like it, as it makes it easier for good comments to “escape” from here and into the microblogging platforms. Assuming of course you are followed by users over there. But it is not a function on Lemmy.

      So I’m not sure what OP refers to, or how posts appear as boosted in the dadjokes community. But it is indeed possible for Mbin or Mastodon users (among others) to boost any content seen on there.