How to repost boost, replies work on Mastodon ?
- Mastodon post has a boost(reshare/retweet/reblog) to share the post of someone else. Once the post boosted, it will appear on the person's home timeline it doesn't have an different url. (Both the actual url and the reshared urls are same)
- After edit the post by the initial user, then if we have boosted the post already, then we get a notification of the original user has edited the post. (see below)
Nick edited the post.
Pasan got notification
- If there is not boost(reshare/retweet/reblog) a post, then the user will not get any notification, either if he is already followed the initial user.
- For the replies, there is not any notifications received whether I boost(reshare/retweet/reblog) the post.
Ben's thought's about this. The reason for trying to understand this is to understand how the information is diffused. It's diffused more if people are alerted to the updates and less if the update is the only thing anyone ever sees. This will inform us if it's more like a "retweet" or an original tweet, which will tell us how we need to categorize the updates when it comes to filtering the data. If we're scrapping all the retweets, we won't bother with the updates if they're more like a retweet. If they're more like an entirely separate post, then we might want to keep them in that category.