Oddbean

Yah but that’s not what everyone using the term means, they literally mean renote because that’s what their client calls renoting, like how Damus uses the term repost. They’re “boosting” the post for more engagement. Boost- help, encourage, lift from below, amplify. Broadcasting doesn’t really do any of those things.

how could you honestly say what everyone means when using the term with absolute certainty my fren have you surveyed every single nostrich that uses this term ? also I’d disagree “broadcasting” definitely amplifies a note, is it not now in more relays than it was when posted by the author ? n how does that not mean that it reaches a wider audience that it wouldn’t have otherwise ? (npubs who weren’t connected to the authors relays)

Broadcast your first note, no more engagement will happen it’s buried at the bottom of the timeline. Repost your first note, now it’s on new relays and at the top of everyone’s feed. The definition of boost means lift from below, amplify. Literally an entire week has gone by with people calling for a boostathon and boostr with people reposting notes calling them boosts?

so lemme just tell you a personal experience and see if it makes any sense to you n maybe you can try it out sometime, a couple months back i used a client I don’t use anymore it was the one made by rabble I think, there was a feature that allowed you to create a note to only 1 relay of your choosing, i tried it out n the note was on that 1 relay for maybe 1 minute until someone on that relay decided lemme fuck with Sleepy’s test note n broadcast it, it wasn’t on 1 relay anymore which wasn’t visible to the rest of the network, now it was fully visible to most n engagement started flooding in as replies said test failed we can see the note, if that’s not amplifying idk what is. Either way I’m not technical enough to continue down this conversation 🤣 I’d love to hear from more technical people who know the process in which it works n allow them to figure out the correct terminology for it and I’ll happily listen to their points n change my mind if it makes sense to me.

note - the original post reply - A note reply to the original note, with content after the note id referenced. Can be threaded as it references all prior notes quote-note - A note you create that reference's another note, and adds personal context before the note id. Starts a new note thread boost - When you see someone else's note, and you create a new note that includes the note id, and no new content renote - A self boost of your own note, without new content broadcast - When you see someone else's note, and you send it to the relays you can write to, without creating a new note

that form of boost I’ve never done myself or seen so dis must be why I don’t understand what you guys mean cause the term boost I know of isn’t anything new from a week ago or any of that lol this is something I heard multiple times on my first week here a year ago