@Lady Not to yet again "why did we model this thing on Twitter? (I know why but.)", but this is a design flaw in the model of social media that the software is designed around.

It should (a) be as easy to respond to the person who boosted something to your feed as it is to respond to the OP,
AND (b) have as continuous a set of multiple gradients along different axes between "boosting" and "posting" as possible.

This is a design failure to take curation seriously as a social activity.

@gaditb i largely agree, altho in this case there is a specific answer, which is that eugen believed that having people talking ABOUT posts/people instead of responding TO posts/people was part of why twitter was so toxic

(mastodon replyguyism is baked in)

but i think in terms of curation, chronological timelines are often Not Actually The Best Format, so there’s a whole host of gaps in the platform design there