"Boost if you agree" is something I'm slightly uncomfortable with, as it reminds me of birdsite behaviors which seem designed to make algorithms interact, forge hollow interconnections between users, and perpetuate artificial number counts to be mined and monetized. Or maybe I'm just overthinking things and seeing specters where there are none.

Boost if you agree.

@Mycroft Outside of the clearly satirical ones, it reminds me more of Tumblr and the ways in which some groups used "reblog or else" as a social weapon. I don't cotton to the idea that my engagement can be dictated. Lines like that make me feel like the speaker is more interested in consensus than in fact or truth. I can't stop people from doing it, of course, but I can refuse to participate.

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