When someone asks a question here and you know the answer, click through to view their post on their instance rather than on yours just to make sure there aren't already 3000 identical answers that haven't made their way to your instance
Unless you (or someone else on your instance) actually follow that person, in which case replies should have been forwarded; or am I wrong?
@robryk eg, someone reposts someone asking for help
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@mjg59 Ah, I see. Indeed this is how one often sees posts from people one does not follow.
(One of my gripes with how APub is used by all(?) Fedi software is that they try to make it impossible to interact with the boost itself, and try to redirect all such interaction to the boosted message.)
