Just when I think I have somewhat of an understanding of the fediverse, there becomes more questions. So, I am the moderator for !dadjokes@lemmy.world and I see many “boosted” posts. Does that occur any time there is a comment on that post from Lemmy, or has someone made another account on Mastadon that is using the same photos from the dadjokes Lemmy community?

  • stinerman [Ohio]@midwest.socialEnglish
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    6 days ago

    My understanding is that if I follow @dadjokes@lemmy.world from Mastodon what happens is:

    • I will see all posts on that community
    • I will also see all replies to that post
    • The replies are listed in Mastodon as boosts from @dadjokes@lemmy.world

    For example:

    That’s what I see if I go to @dadjokes@lemmy.world from Mastodon.

    Is that what you are talking about regarding boosts?

    • loopy@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      5 days ago

      Yeah, that is what I was referring to with boosting. I think I understand now. For a short while, it looked to me like there were replies on Mastadon that I didnt write, but apparently they are just all of the “boosted” posts coming from Lemmy comments. Thank you.