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2. https://chrismcleod.dev 2 min later

   @zachleat I see them

3. Ajit Panigrahi 2 min later

   @zachleat what are boosts

   1. Zach Leatherman 4 min later

      @ajit if you’re familiar with twitter they are similar to retweets

      1. Ajit Panigrahi 40 min later

         @zachleat thanks for the info!

4. Jay 🆘 2 min later

   @zachleat Yes, we see them

5. Ernie Smith 2 min later

   @zachleat I see your boosts

6. Matt Wilcox 2 min later

   @zachleat I see boosts from people not on my instance. I have likely seen yours too, but can't spot one at the moment.

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9. Thomas Randolph 3 min later

   @zachleat I see your boosts, sir

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11. Lewis Dale 4 min later

    @zachleat They show up on my timeline too - when you boost a post Mastodon will broadcast it as an “Announce” message to all of your followers, so they should see it

12. Florian Brinkmann 4 min later

    @zachleat seeing them

13. Jess Eldredge 5 min later

    @zachleat I see your boosts!

14. Zach Leatherman 6 min later

    The answer is thankfully yes! (Appreciate y’all—it was something I was curious about with solo-instances)

    https://fediverse.zachleat.com/web/@brettmn@dreamin.online/109320115800913235

    1. Sara Soueidan 50 min later

       @zachleat please do a writeup about how you set your instance up 🥹

       1. Zach Leatherman 57 min later

          @SaraSoueidan I would but it wouldn’t be very helpful to folks because I used masto.host and they are locked down 😭

          1. Sara Soueidan 1 hr later

             @zachleat oh 😭

             1. Zach Leatherman 1 hr later

                @SaraSoueidan either way, this is the one I used! https://social.jacobian.org/@jacob/109247399870935153

                cc @jfroehlich and @skidvis

                1. Skid Vis 1 hr later

                   @zachleat Thanks!

                2. Sara Soueidan 2 hr later

                   @zachleat @jfroehlich @skidvis thank you Zach 🎉

       2. Jay 🆘 1 hr later

          @SaraSoueidan @zachleat I did it with Linode and Cloudron and it was fairly easy! I should do a writeup sometime

    2. Chris Enns 53 min later

       @zachleat Makes me think some Birdsite engineer should make a version of the site that El0n sees where they do all his bidding, but the rest of us get to keep using a sane version of it. :)

       1. Zach Leatherman 56 min later

          @ichris whew—I do not envy those poor souls

15. Roel Nieskens 7 min later

    @zachleat I see 'em and I appreciate 'em!

16. Kevin C. Tofel 8 min later

    @zachleat I see your boosts. And I’ll raise you five more boosts. Do you call or fold? 😉

    1. Zach Leatherman 12 min later

       @kevinctofel I am not above the fold

17. Lindsay Wardell 9 min later

    @zachleat I’m seeing them!

18. patak 10 min later

    @zachleat IMO a good way to think about it is that when you boost a post, it has the same effect as if you publish a post yourself. All your followers will see it, and it also will be seen in the local timeline of your server (that is only you in your case, ha).

    I actually like that when you boost in Mastodon, your avatar is shown a bit smaller than the original poster but it clearly shows that you are the one giving it a boost. I think it is good for taking accountability of what we boost

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    2. Steren 1 hr later

       @patak @zachleat like a good old RT

19. Alesandro Ortiz 🇵🇷🏳️‍🌈 21 min later

    @zachleat I see your latest boost both on my home feed and your feed using Mastodon Android app.

20. Skid Vis 21 min later

    @zachleat I see your boosts.

21. jools 22 min later

    @zachleat I See them too. My instance is running the hometown fork of mastodon and that has local-only post option. Not sure how boosts work with that, though:

22. Nick Taylor 27 min later

    @zachleat I see them on my instance

23. Sara Soueidan 33 min later

    @zachleat i see them 👍

24. CJ Dunn 50 min later

    @zachleat I see them! keep ‘em coming

25. Cthos 1 hr later

    @zachleat definitely see the boosts. I’ve been using it to find neat people to follow.

26. ૮༼⚆︿⚆༽つ / Wildan 3 hr later

    @zachleat yep 👍
    I wonder if there is a hack to quote post via boost :blobcatthonking:

    (not related: do you see my emoji?)

    1. Zach Leatherman 3 hr later

       @drsensor I see two emoji in your post but no emoji in your username!

       1. ૮༼⚆︿⚆༽つ / Wildan 3 hr later

          @zachleat nice!
          Ah, my username is not emoji. Just kaomoji. Some random unicode that looks like emoji.

27. Stephen Hay 4 hr later

    @zachleat I see them.