Lady, EVOLVED 
“this person is wrong or at least oversimplifying, and if a mutual did that i would push back against it, but instead they just boosted this rando who it would be inappropriate for me to push back against, since i don’t know them or care, but that means my mutual is going to continue on continuing on being Slightly Wrong, which is awkward”
still l·m·a·o·ing at the people who are like “i hate those apps who include the boosters in the mentions when people reply because people will say headass shit while tagging me and i’m Mortified”
yeah you SHOULD be mortified, that’s the whole fucking point, take responsibility for your networks
@Lady It wouldn't have solved moderation or brigading or context collapse or the majority of incomplete-context-transfer or a bunch of other Known (and unknown) Problems, but taking on the Twitter model of boosting rather than the Tumblr model of boosting is the Original Sin of the fediverse (going all the way back to both its OStatus and Pump.io roots) that we suffer from to this day.
@Lady Also it would have made all the discussion around bridging to post-Twitter networks like BlueSky or Nostr Extremely Funny™.
@Lady "Oh, you mean a structured communication implicitly embeds its expected consumption, inherited from its origin-software, in its content and semantics? You mean you need to do TRANSLATION and make DECISIONS? You can't pretend to be a neutral and objective node between two distinct contexts?
Boo hoo. This must be SOOO hard for you."
friends don’t boost takes nothing good comes of it
use your own words