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Stuart Langridge | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @2fd7551e what I would really like is this: https://mastodon.social/@sil/109837677049472346
Is this stuff you're doing able to do that? That is: tell that when person X boosted your post, that person Y saw it (and boosted it themselves) *because person X did*? To build a chain/graph?
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Terence Eden | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @b214e325 No.

You can see who boosted your post. But you don't know whether they saw your original or whether they saw it boosted by someone else.

You can make an educated guess by looking at timestamps, but it is all a bit fuzzy (by design).
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Stuart Langridge | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @2fd7551e awh. And you can’t guess by looking at the people they follow to see where they might have seen it because you can’t always see that list. Ah well. So it does require the protocol change we spoke of in that thread. Never mind!
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c66048f7 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @2fd7551e @b214e325 That sounds very like 'security by obscurity'. I hope it isn't.
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Terence Eden | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @ad854657
If you read the above blog post I've tried to explain it clearly.