Oddbean new post about login | logout 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?
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
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!
Feel like I need to $boost this nostr:nevent1qqsfla08nz3zqgnxknk0w8lxkg98clyxvkuvkdpzz88zua83zaecw8cpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfdupzqfme70vlgtraactlpe4umnuf4ruatyk3nca3h0f8auw0l5d8lxx3qvzqqqqqqykllxsc
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on Amethyst, I believe "boost" does both operations, which is my personal definition for a nostr note boost. nostr:nevent1qqsvpckzgzmnxxl6htx6plhjljqyppqvcynf969gjw97rezs2q9s97qpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsygqdqeyqkrrw803ungdxt4lxhssfzgna2kl5calwkcphhfmhdscqaspsgqqqqqqs7w0cwl
I like boost TBH
💥 prism created 💥 Your note received 1 reposts ⚡zap this note on nostrudel.ninja, snort.social, amethyst or on any client that supports zap splits nostr:nevent1qqsvpckzgzmnxxl6htx6plhjljqyppqvcynf969gjw97rezs2q9s97q6383z8
this is why i #nostr 🫂
