I removed the links to the post because the original poster felt it was dogpiling for me to do so, and fair enough I guess.
But I am troubled by this line of thinking, and I think it *is* a line of thinking people are going down.
@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber unrelated to the thread but somewhat related to what that person was saying: is there a reason why you boost your own self-replies? i think the overwhelming majority of fedi apps will show self-replies in timelines, so boosting yourself just makes your posts show up twice in a row, which is unnecessary. (i can understand doing it on bluesky, because bluesky collapses reply chains to max 3 or so, but fedi largely doesn't do that...)
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