julian<p><a href="https://community.nodebb.org/user/panos" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@panos</a> brought up something interesting recently, which is that Lemmy communities don't boost everything (at least when viewed from Mastodon), but just the original post.</p>
<p>I wasn't sure whether this was intentional (because 1b12 <em>definitely</em> specifies that everything is boosted, replies and all). The only explanation I can think of is that 1b12 boosts <strong>activities</strong>, and Mastodon doesn't understand that, so it's actually an implementation quirk that causes Mastodon to not actually see the entire conversation.</p>
<p>NodeBB used to <code>Announce(Note)</code> <strong>and</strong> <code>Announce(Create(Note))</code>, and it meant that Mastodon was seeing everything. This was desirable from a synchronization standpoint, but it meant everything was going into Mastodon user feeds, which was <a href="https://community.nodebb.org/user/panos" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@panos</a>' concern.</p>
<p>I think Guppe (which is kind of like 1b12? Not sure) boosts everything, but again, am not 100% sure.</p>