I've seen one or two profiles with the phrase "Boosts are not endorsements" and I wanted to ask if we, as a community, can nip that in the bud?
This isn't the other place. There are no algos to game. There is no audience to reach. What we _do_ have is our curated content, our interests, and our community.
Boosting is ABSOLUTELY endorsing something. It's you, taking a post, and saying "this is good enough for #MastoDaoine to see".
Anything else is inciting controversy, leave that shit behind.
@coogie I believe your attitude may not be the best to understand how things work and why they do work so; not necessarily I'm saying they work well.
I disagree with what you say, and in particular with your "nip that in the bud"; this is not a fresh social network in which rules and uses still have to be decided, there is a large user base who already communicates in a certain way.
I feel the best question for you should be: why in this social network I just joined boosts are not endorsement? After understanding that you may choose to disagree and try to change things.
I, for example, don't think people should just boost stuff they agree with and I very often boost stuff I really don't like.
As an example: political party leader said something unacceptable, I will boost that to let people know about the incompetence of the guy.
Moreover, I might boost someone making a point I disagree with to get more people into the conversation.
This is not Twitter, don't try to change it as if it was Twitter; there is plenty of things that don't work well; but the ability to read and talk about things you disagree with is not one of them.
