Related to hackers.town/@erosdiscordia/10 LB: An interesting difference we ran into between Mastodon and Twitter/Tumblr is that you don't get any notifications for posts you boost. On those sites, you get positive notification feedback from reblogging viral posts; on here, you just don't. If you want to see people reacting positively to your presence, you have to post yourself.

It's a small change, but also ... not. Mastodon isn't desperate to make posts go viral. It'd rather you participate.

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@packbat why... *would* you get notifications for things you boost?
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@Felthry I'm not sure why the decision was initially made, but the effect of it is to make people feel accomplished for making posts go viral, and I think the ad-based monetization model of Twitter and Tumblr profits from posts going viral.

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@packbat places people go for socializing shouldn't be monetized in any way
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