What is Boosting? 

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 Isn't that Reposting? 

 I'd say no, because reposting something is posting something again (something that was posted before, either by yourself or by others). 

 

 🤔🧐🤔🤔🤔🧐🧐🧐🧐 

 (i thought so too at first but "repost" has a long history and meaning)

https://image.nostr.build/50dffea2794b10c8165ed3b647e63104edf73542582b83016f386ee9e5998ca2.jpg

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/repost 

 I could've linked to the previous post I copy-pasted, but I thought it wouldn't be appropriate.  

 Oh … ok, now I’m confused. 😂 

 Me too 🤝 

 Makes sense. Boost is a good term. 

 wait wut 

I could’ve sworn “boost” = “broadcast” https://i.nostr.build/n9vM.jpg  

 Amethyst uses "Boost" for reposts (not sure if any other client uses that)
But since there's also the sats-sharing boost now, it can be a bit confusing. 

 It's bump now. All good. @corndalorian is a prophet  

 Can you do bumps on Snort? 

 Definitely https://i.nostr.build/P3M8.jpg  

 I can’t hear bump n not automatically think of https://media1.tenor.com/m/4ScF-fojlWwAAAAC/velkov.gif 

 I was just confused because I thought "boost" was a synonym for "repost" 

 I thought broadcast was for relaying the note to all of your relays. 

 This is what I thought. Doesn’t it broadcast the note to relays the post was not posted on? 

 License to think
🧐 https://i.nostrimg.com/950b0bb5563c6388f1250ccb9d9820d38f5c13364f049fe072a7c5bdf0b40446/file.jpeg  

 exactly that’s what I consider to be a “boost” of someone’s note 

I could’ve sworn someone passed on this knowledge to me when I first arrived 🤣 

 No dude, a broadcast just sends the note out to more relays, it doesn’t “boost”
The note to the top of everyone’s chronological feed. A “repost”(boost) not only broadcasts a note to your relays, it also changes the chronological time on the relays putting it at the top of everyone’s feed. 

Broadcasting is used to get a note saved on more relays and therefore make it more searchable.

Renote/repost/boost is used to increase engagement. 

 sending it out to more relays is literally what “boost” means to me

“Boosting the note to the top of everyone’s feed” is not what I have in mind when I say “boost” what I have in mind when I say “boost” is giving the note a boost to be picked up by my relays, you could argue that renotes and broadcasts are both ways of “boosting” and I’d agree 🫡 

 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. 

 I think Semisol is super technical and he loves these kinds of arguments  

 he’s already firing at me https://media1.tenor.com/m/eCkH2P9iwHoAAAAC/no-the-office.gif 

 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 

 Vic has spoken. 

 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 

 Agree except 'renote' should be 'self-boost' or something that connects it to boosting rather than connecting it to noting. 

 Boost isn’t in the NIPs vocabulary so use it in the way that makes the most sense to you! 

 this is why i #nostr 🫂 

 So why don’t we merge the two buttons into one? 

 that button usually means repost or quote. much confuse. 

 What is ”boost”? 

 https://image.nostr.build/b372a295d4833e4d5d4f4c64e18026be0f1935c5ed502461664d057a7e80d9d4.jpg 

 gae

i'll never use "boost" as a term 

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 straight to jail

boosting is fiat influencer words, when you do paid ads on some piece of content 

 I'm a bumping maxi now  

 bumping is smth i can get behind 

 https://image.nostr.build/04b0edaea9d72806c70534df52aab70df7f2724fa6024002410f2cb162204a3c.jpg 

 bump it up 

 I would like to discuss who is working on this decentralized pool to send some sats to devs 

https://github.com/p2pool/p2pool 

 I forgot quoting. You can also quote a note. Which sounds weird because it rhymes.  

 🤙 

 Post-note verb-noun ambiguity will be our Waterloo. Noted. 

 I thought boost=repost.  

 https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/facebook/001/483/348/bdd.jpg 

 (i thought so too at first but "repost" has a long history and meaning)

https://image.nostr.build/50dffea2794b10c8165ed3b647e63104edf73542582b83016f386ee9e5998ca2.jpg

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/repost 

 I should know this coming from Reddit.  

 It does seem that repost is misused to mean boost on Nostr though.  

 boost not going to stick imo. idk what it means 

zap is the invention that stuck, repost is just retweet to me 

 this 

 retweet? 

 I think, boosting should be much less of a thing.

Currently, the default timeline in noStrudel shows only new posts, boosts and replies but maybe it should also or even instead show zapped posts? So instead of boosting good content people would have more of a reason to zap it. Sure, if we overdo this incentive, zaps will get abused to self-zap for visibility but I would argue that posts that got a lot of zaps from my follows are more relevant than those that got boosted.

https://image.nostr.build/c64d32e8ba592fce3a153f86ce644a67af1e924fb0d74e409d395b7b6bcd0b0a.png 

 Who do you think that?

Bumping something to the top again is incredibly useful and has always been (forums, etc).  

 You already changed my mind @corndalorian 

 Absolutely, bumping is incredibly useful and maybe even more in nostr than in Twitter where you can only boost once. My argument was simply about clients treating other things like boosts. Currently, zapping is possible and nice but no client treats it like a boost but they could. Like Twitter uses likes as a reason to feed you stuff, zapps should be a much better reason to feed stuff to users than likes. 

 I’ve tried to used “repost” button as my open bookmarks collection for things I want to show others IRL someday.

I use “like” button when I want the poster to know someone out there read it and thought about it.  Not worth much, I agree, but still an acknowledgment that I stopped to read it.

“Zaps” are the next step in the evolution of engaging with digital content because it’s a “like” plus an itty bit of cheddar letting the poster know I’m picking up what you’re putting down. 

 What’s the difference between boost and repost ? I know quote is reposting as my own note with a comment. But I’m not sure I get the difference between the first two. 

 My terminology would be :

You compose and send a note to the relays, that's how you note. 

If you send an existing note to the relays, that's how you renote.

Noting, renoting, zapping and fetching others notes is how you Nostr. 

 Quoting is included in noting by this definition yet remains its own thing

As for boosting I would assume it's about the likes and the other reactions though many use it for renotes 

 I'll necc before I ever say "renote" out loud  

 I read it for the first time today from ODELL and found it quite funny. I doubt it sticks too though. 😄  

 who cares about the terminology, just fucking send the note and vibe 

 yes we all should stop talking anyway  

 and writing and reading too who needs words it's so stupid lmao frfr no cap  

 30 something year old man attempts to relate to the youth (corny) 

 Bot impersonating youth misinterprets mockery as tying to be relatable 

 he can mock me all he wants, i don’t know who he is, and he doesn’t know who i am. he’s just some dude online. 

 Fr fr no cap. 

 What do you think about people reposting their own notes? 

 That is a good thing. 

 https://media1.tenor.com/m/Kp38SAOjxukAAAAd/disagree-yeah.gif 

 What comes to mind 

https://m.primal.net/HddE.jpg  

 That's a self-zap  

 To each there own. Clients will offer more and better filters for users who don’t wanna see “self boosted”… otherwise … it’s currently the the best way to keep important notes in your audience’s “current” timeline …  

 don't mind it all and I borderline think you're obliged to if it's a banger 
https://i.nostr.build/nb1222.gif  

 🤣 notes transmitted via relays amirite https://i.nostr.build/ok6v.jpg  

 You post a note. You drive a car. You didn't "car" to work yesterday.  

 🤣 I understand but where does it say we have to abide by this on the nostr roadmap ? renote gives us a sense of individuality amongst all previous posting platforms.. example on twitter you post a tweet and call it a retweet (branding), or the more technical term “repost” but does that mean it’s the most widely used term ? Nah.. bc when the branding is good, it sticks 🫡 

 wow very original and I don't hate it at all
https://image.nostr.build/911583667395eacbe5c5862fedbbe1c2543e0e5d44edd25577b0508676aca658.jpg 

 rereplying this 

 repostnoteboosting this  

 You can’t triple stamp a double stamp. 

 I'm lost 😞 I don't get it  🤔 

 U killed me with this one 💀 

 Can we Lie then ReLie? 

 👀 wen Lie client 

 to much truth for me 😵‍💫 

 ReReTruth for ReTruthing a ReTruth? 

 ReeTruth, Technically 

 On Truth Social, the users are called ReTards. 

 😂😂😂 Truth ²  

 NOH https://image.nostr.build/90395590c85265ed6e6da42ce0290a36938b2c1d1debb89c9c4f681c177bfb55.jpg 

 Any noun can be verbed. 

 I’m gonna re-note this 😂 

 https://media1.tenor.com/m/MLkzVh9FxsUAAAAC/yes-agree.gif 

 👆How many people know that is Robert Redford nodding?

Honestly now. I bet very low%. 

 https://youtube.com/watch?v=8K_eDzecqVg&si=GjeJ0LFT1s7f0bnG 

 I first learned this on knowyourmeme 🤣 I spend hours on there https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/jeremiah-johnson-nod-of-approval 

 A true pro knows his memes. 

Like the mafia “we can’t kill anyone we don’t know first”

Professionalism matters. 

 I honestly hope I get to teach memeology 101 or memecraft which ever you like more 🤣 at a uni one day 🫡 

 We have to pass it on to the next generation. 

 big facts 

 Storytellers…..our greatest weapon. Truly. 

 
https://i.nostr.build/A3EL.jpg 

 Mr. Sleepy tell us your favorite meme? 

 Of all time ? Hard one but probably Dat Boi 🤣🤣 brings back so many memories, n yours ? 

https://media.tenor.com/qTvfcUyyyjQAAAAi/dat-boi-meme.gif 

 oh shit waddup
https://video.nostr.build/c3527f517b0214d25649ae9e6cf75ac80cc384cf56eedc82fbd0190b4822714f.mp4 

 that was interesting.  

 Anyone remember this 🤣 https://youtube.com/watch?v=zdU635esPpQ&si=KVbSaIOQZP7S4hMj 

 Maybe try this one? 🤷🏻 https://youtube.com/watch?v=b4V9SBT6Nmk&si=e_Y_6sWiXLf4ksRm 

 🤣 

 My goodness this brings back so much nostalgia 🔥🔥🔥 

 Oh shit whaddup 

 https://i.nostr.build/gLYG.gif 

 I like dis one it’s cut from a longer length Matt Furie classic 🔥 

 I couldn’t find it 😂 

 I need to watch this. I forgot like a stoner 🤣 https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZEiqZWw5vYs&si=XDfb9S8Z2_ilY8eY 

 YES 🙌 a classic! 

 Should do it at meet-ups and conferences 😁
Have course material too 

 👀 

 👀👀 

 I love studying meme history on there. I'm fascinated by the Wojak mythology. 

 🤣 

 Quoting this note.. Adding a #meme
..am I doing it right?
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 You need to ask Calle if a nut can be boosted 

 I'm pretty new here whats the difference between a boost and zap?
 

 I’m pretty sure it’s called, “recycle” note. 

 Who is going to make boostcasting a feature? Btw, I don't know what that would be. 

 Note / Renote / ₿ Note / Renote & Note

You post a note. You re-note the note if it's good. You send a ₿ note if it deserves it. You renote and note to create a new note with the old note.

It's not that hard. 

 This largely resonates with me.

Repost below 👇 

 This largely resonates with me.

Repost below 👇 

 This largely resonates with me.

Repost below 👇 

 Nost / Boost / Zap / ReNost

this is Nostr not Postr 

 #YESTR 

 that’s the way we do it? 😁 

 boost = repost, reply, reaction, any type of action that triggers the post to appear on someone else's feed. 

 Duly noted. 

 I'm thinking lately that specific to nostr we have 'relay' we can use it to replace 'repost' or 'boost'... I'm relaying this note to you wdyt? 

 Relay > repost 🤙💜 

 We can replace 'repost' or 'boost' with 'relay'... I'm relaying this note. It is nostr related and it is exactly what you are doing. What do you think?

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 Love this. I’d relay it 

 Relay > repost 

 It all works on a truthless system! 

 "truthless" lol... yes, big tech has the monopoly on THE TROOOOF lol seriously where the fuck is this truth shit coming from anyway, it seems really fucking suspicious to me how i keep reading in dev documentation "source of troof" bull fuckin shit

come on, there is no source of truth, the truth is out there  

 https://i.nostr.build/ZoJE.jpg