Gregory's Server@nikki I agree and find it ironic that nobody favourited this post yet, so I'll be first π My online writing started with Livejournal so I find novelty of "there is no algorithm!" quite funny. We used to find interesting people to follow in the comments, among followers of other people, later using tags and there was that feed that is called Explore here. Things just appearing in the feed out of nowhere _are_ the novelty.
@Triffen @nikki I don't tend to hit the star when I boost, because that will create 2 notifications. For me, both mean either "I like this", "Thank you" or "I acknowledge this". Boost means either I think my followers will want to see it, or the person who posted it needs help.