A common Mastodon journalist observation is that things don’t seem to get traction here.
They’re right. Sorta. Boosts and likes aren’t synced across servers, so things look dead.
I’ve had plenty of toots with thousands of boosts and likes.. but if you don’t use my server, cyberplace.social, it looked like they had 4 interactions.
Plot twist: boost and like syncing is coming to Mastodon. It’s on the roadmap.
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For anyone who comes across this and wants to check the standard, #ActivityPub counts boosts as the announce action.
