I wrote a super simple bot that boosts anything from a hashtag. The poor man's group feature. https://github.com/Gargron/boost-bot
@Gargron
Not afraid that people will use the chosen hashtag even if it is not related to their toots just to be boosted?
Right now I don't think most users care about boosts that much on Mastodon but it might change in the future and become more like Twitter and Facebook where many users seem to be running after visibility.
In the end I don't think adding a non-related hashtag to a toot just to get one boost is worth it but some people might think otherwise which could lead to an abuse of the hashtag and make it useless. It was just a thought I add when reading the toot about this idea.
@kaiwen it’s not too hard to just turn off the bot if it becomes an issue i suppose
@Satsuma
Yeah for sure. Anyway I like the idea especially for Mastodon instances dedicated to specific topics, it allows hashtags related to the topic to get an automatic boost and make them slightly more visible.
@kaiwen @Gargron does anyone actually care about boosts that much? I mean they’re nice I guess but people who care about what you said responding is how actual interesting conversations happen