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A guide to some Fediverse terms:

Toot = Post (named after the Mastodon mascot, in theory)

Favourite = Like (there's a separate Bookmark function if you really want to keep track of posts)

Boost = Re-Tweet, shares a post with your followers

Instance = Server = The site you signed up on, each server is independent

Birdsite = Hellsite = Twitter

Fediverse = This place you're on right now, reading this. Mastodon is one kind of server on here, but there are many other types.

@feditips isn’t the protocol to boost more than like too?

@Js_wordsmith

I'm not sure what you mean?

Boost shares posts with your followers, and it also makes the post appear higher in the trending posts list.

@feditips I saw on another instance that they recommending boosting instead of favoriting to help promote others content. I feel like I see more boosts than favs myself. But I do both anyway lol

FediTips has moved!

@Js_wordsmith

Yeah, boosts are what make a post be more widely seen because there's no algorithm on here.

Favourites are mainly to just let the person know you liked their post.