@stefan I voted "every few days", but only because I don't like a higher frequency per account. Personally I only boost a minority of my posts, but when they are time critical or have a "temporal relevancy", I boost 1-2 times, for different time zones, so after 6/8/12-ish hours.
@stefan I occasionally find it useful to do it because of time zones. If I have something I want everyone to see, I'll post it in the morning so the people around the Greenwich meridian pick it up, then boost it in the evening to make sure the USA, Canada, and Aus/NZ get it. But I don't boost for the sake of it.
@stefan I think it's fine on occasion for special/important toots, but if people do it daily or every other post from their account I'm going to hide boosts from them which means I may miss something they would like to share with their followers.
@stefan I don't usually, but sometimes I share a picture I really like and might boost it after ~12h so that more folks get a chance of seeing it. Because timezones.
I think I've only ever self-boosted a few pics - I suppose it would make more sense if I self-boosted a question though , in the interest of getting more feedback / discussion. 🤔
@stefan I boost posts from my accounts on other platforms IF I feel it’s relevant to that community group and the followers are mostly unique. Example.. I’ll boost a pixelfed post sometimes.
@stefan idg the “don’t!” reaction, other than that it reflects some vague social norm about it appearing self-absorbed? is there some other reason it annoys people??
It just occurred to me that I was missing an option between "once/twice a day" and "not at all", but interestingly, "don't" is a pretty strong sentiment here.
@chrisamaphone I personally don't mind people doing this, I've certainly nearly missed good posts because of the lack of algorithm, and I am a bit too lazy to use some of the third party tools people built.
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Jeez I think people should do what they want on social media (subject to the usual caveats about abuse, isming etc), but over half of respondents think there are rules. How completely ass of them.
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