wait wut
I couldโve sworn โboostโ = โbroadcastโ 
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Amethyst uses "Boost" for reposts (not sure if any other client uses that)
But since there's also the sats-sharing boost now, it can be a bit confusing.
It's bump now. All good. nostr:npub1uu7s59s0vvdr3pwq8lj9yxe5mhk5ad76zc80ls6g3xvzssay5veq83w04u is a prophet
I was just confused because I thought "boost" was a synonym for "repost"
I thought broadcast was for relaying the note to all of your relays.
This is what I thought. Doesnโt it broadcast the note to relays the post was not posted on?
exactly thatโs what I consider to be a โboostโ of someoneโs note
I couldโve sworn someone passed on this knowledge to me when I first arrived ๐คฃ
No dude, a broadcast just sends the note out to more relays, it doesnโt โboostโ
The note to the top of everyoneโs chronological feed. A โrepostโ(boost) not only broadcasts a note to your relays, it also changes the chronological time on the relays putting it at the top of everyoneโs feed.
Broadcasting is used to get a note saved on more relays and therefore make it more searchable.
Renote/repost/boost is used to increase engagement.
sending it out to more relays is literally what โboostโ means to me
โBoosting the note to the top of everyoneโs feedโ is not what I have in mind when I say โboostโ what I have in mind when I say โboostโ is giving the note a boost to be picked up by my relays, you could argue that renotes and broadcasts are both ways of โboostingโ and Iโd agree ๐ซก
Yah but thatโs not what everyone using the term means, they literally mean renote because thatโs what their client calls renoting, like how Damus uses the term repost. Theyโre โboostingโ the post for more engagement.
Boost- help, encourage, lift from below, amplify.
Broadcasting doesnโt really do any of those things.
how could you honestly say what everyone means when using the term with absolute certainty my fren have you surveyed every single nostrich that uses this term ? also Iโd disagree โbroadcastingโ definitely amplifies a note, is it not now in more relays than it was when posted by the author ? n how does that not mean that it reaches a wider audience that it wouldnโt have otherwise ? (npubs who werenโt connected to the authors relays)
Broadcast your first note, no more engagement will happen itโs buried at the bottom of the timeline.
Repost your first note, now itโs on new relays and at the top of everyoneโs feed. The definition of boost means lift from below, amplify.
Literally an entire week has gone by with people calling for a boostathon and boostr with people reposting notes calling them boosts?
so lemme just tell you a personal experience and see if it makes any sense to you n maybe you can try it out sometime, a couple months back i used a client I donโt use anymore it was the one made by rabble I think, there was a feature that allowed you to create a note to only 1 relay of your choosing, i tried it out n the note was on that 1 relay for maybe 1 minute until someone on that relay decided lemme fuck with Sleepyโs test note n broadcast it, it wasnโt on 1 relay anymore which wasnโt visible to the rest of the network, now it was fully visible to most n engagement started flooding in as replies said test failed we can see the note, if thatโs not amplifying idk what is. Either way Iโm not technical enough to continue down this conversation ๐คฃ Iโd love to hear from more technical people who know the process in which it works n allow them to figure out the correct terminology for it and Iโll happily listen to their points n change my mind if it makes sense to me.
note - the original post
reply - A note reply to the original note, with content after the note id referenced. Can be threaded as it references all prior notes
quote-note - A note you create that reference's another note, and adds personal context before the note id. Starts a new note thread
boost - When you see someone else's note, and you create a new note that includes the note id, and no new content
renote - A self boost of your own note, without new content
broadcast - When you see someone else's note, and you send it to the relays you can write to, without creating a new note
Vic has spoken.
that form of boost Iโve never done myself or seen
so dis must be why I donโt understand what you guys mean
cause the term boost I know of isnโt anything new from a week ago or any of that lol this is something I heard multiple times on my first week here a year ago
Agree except 'renote' should be 'self-boost' or something that connects it to boosting rather than connecting it to noting.
So why donโt we merge the two buttons into one?