My switch from macOS to Linux
Why did I switch, what I like about @gnome and a guide on how you can try Linux too
meta subtoot
seeing folk refer to "the original Mastodon app for "
my froods, the original Mastodon apps were all third-party. the "official" Mastodon apps are recent and not feature complete.
look around the ecosystem a bit - the "official" stuff your brain seeks is centralization talking. we roll differently over here.
I, of course, am the kind of clown that installs Lineage+MicroG and uses F-droid first, but no one will sell me a phone configured that way.
Having run my own test mastodon server, I can tell you that boosting is REALLY important. That's how posts propagate between servers that are not federated together.
I may get a bit technical, and it can be hard to describe but it's something like this:
Let's say that you have 2 servers, A and B that are not connected. They have their own federated timelines that is vastly different.
let's assume they have their users @a@A and @b@B that are mutuals. If user @a@A sees something interesting on theirs federated timeline and boosts it, user @b@B will see that on their own home page. But more importantly server B will now know about and download that post, and everyone else on B server will be able to see that post on their own federated timeline!
And that's why you boost, guys! It helps posts to spread.