(one last one last point)
Another thing I want y'all to know - the reason I've been boosting my replies to annoying folks lately?
It's to try and give a signal to those folks *and others* that I find that behavior unacceptable.
That is something this platform desperately needs - like it or not, some of the features of other platforms allow the crowd to signal what's good and bad. That is its own form of moderation. Like giving digital side-eye.
Its absence here isn't all good.
@TechConnectify I think there's a subtle difference between Masto and Xitter: in X, you'd get notified if somebody retweeted a reply. So if you retweeted your own reply in an argument, it looked egotistical. Masto doesn't treat likes/retoots of toots that are replies to your toots as worth notifying about, so I'm much more willing to use the "retoot" button on my own replies to put them into my followers' feed.
I still think they should make that more visible and explicit tho.