Who else do they federation with?

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        It is like retweeting… unlike on Twitter you can’t add your own comments to the boost.

        On twitter if you Like a tweet, then the algorithms pick it up and it may go ‘viral’. This doesn’t exist on the Fediverse. A Favorite / Like is just a heads-up to the author, who sees it as a notification. So boosting is what’s needed to spread posts to other people’s timelines.

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        @TimothyMcFuck Basically it re-share the post to your own timeline. Kinda like sharing the link to a post.

        If you want to see an example in action, you can take a look at my mastoton profile
        https://mstdn.fr/@narF
        and you’ll see some posts that are from different users. These are posts that I boosted (re-shared)