post / boost / zap / repost
You post a note. You boost it if it's good. You zap it if it deserves a zap. "Repost" will always be creating a new post with old content to me.
That's my take on terminology. Discuss.
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What is Boosting?
What is ”boost”?
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i'll never use "boost" as a term
I forgot quoting. You can also quote a note. Which sounds weird because it rhymes.
I thought boost=repost.
straight to jail
boosting is fiat influencer words, when you do paid ads on some piece of content
Isn't that Reposting?
boost not going to stick imo. idk what it means
zap is the invention that stuck, repost is just retweet to me
I think, boosting should be much less of a thing.
Currently, the default timeline in noStrudel shows only new posts, boosts and replies but maybe it should also or even instead show zapped posts? So instead of boosting good content people would have more of a reason to zap it. Sure, if we overdo this incentive, zaps will get abused to self-zap for visibility but I would argue that posts that got a lot of zaps from my follows are more relevant than those that got boosted.
Who do you think that?
Bumping something to the top again is incredibly useful and has always been (forums, etc).
retweet?
You already changed my mind @corndalorian
My terminology would be :
You compose and send a note to the relays, that's how you note.
If you send an existing note to the relays, that's how you renote.
Noting, renoting, zapping and fetching others notes is how you Nostr.
Quoting is included in noting by this definition yet remains its own thing
As for boosting I would assume it's about the likes and the other reactions though many use it for renotes
who cares about the terminology, just fucking send the note and vibe
I'm a bumping maxi now
yes we all should stop talking anyway
and writing and reading too who needs words it's so stupid lmao frfr no cap
bumping is smth i can get behind
You post a note. You drive a car. You didn't "car" to work yesterday.
What comes to mind
That's a self-zap
I'll necc before I ever say "renote" out loud
(i thought so too at first but "repost" has a long history and meaning)
Wiktionary
repost - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
🤣 I understand but where does it say we have to abide by this on the nostr roadmap ? renote gives us a sense of individuality amongst all previous posting platforms.. example on twitter you post a tweet and call it a retweet (branding), or the more technical term “repost” but does that mean it’s the most widely used term ? Nah.. bc when the branding is good, it sticks 🫡
I'd say no, because reposting something is posting something again (something that was posted before, either by yourself or by others).
Quoting this note.. Adding a #meme
..am I doing it right?
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(i thought so too at first but "repost" has a long history and meaning)
Wiktionary
repost - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
I could've linked to the previous post I copy-pasted, but I thought it wouldn't be appropriate.
Oh … ok, now I’m confused. 😂
Makes sense. Boost is a good term.
wait wut
I could’ve sworn “boost” = “broadcast” 
I read it for the first time today from ODELL and found it quite funny. I doubt it sticks too though. 😄
I first learned this on knowyourmeme 🤣 I spend hours on there 
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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.
wow very original and I don't hate it at all
rereplying this
It's bump now. All good. @npub1uu7s...w04u is a prophet
I was just confused because I thought "boost" was a synonym for "repost"
repostnoteboosting this
I honestly hope I get to teach memeology 101 or memecraft which ever you like more 🤣 at a uni one day 🫡
Can you do bumps on Snort?
You can’t triple stamp a double stamp.
U killed me with this one 💀
I should know this coming from Reddit.
It does seem that repost is misused to mean boost on Nostr though.
We have to pass it on to the next generation.
to much truth for me 😵💫
Definitely 
I thought broadcast was for relaying the note to all of your relays.
Can we Lie then ReLie?
big facts
👀 wen Lie client
This is what I thought. Doesn’t it broadcast the note to relays the post was not posted on?
Bot impersonating youth misinterprets mockery as tying to be relatable
exactly that’s what I consider to be a “boost” of someone’s note
I could’ve sworn someone passed on this knowledge to me when I first arrived 🤣
No dude, a broadcast just sends the note out to more relays, it doesn’t “boost”
The note to the top of everyone’s chronological feed. A “repost”(boost) not only broadcasts a note to your relays, it also changes the chronological time on the relays putting it at the top of everyone’s 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.
You need to ask Calle if a nut can be boosted
sending it out to more relays is literally what “boost” means to me
“Boosting the note to the top of everyone’s feed” is not what I have in mind when I say “boost” what I have in mind when I say “boost” is giving the note a boost to be picked up by my relays, you could argue that renotes and broadcasts are both ways of “boosting” and I’d agree 🫡
that button usually means repost or quote. much confuse.
So why don’t we merge the two buttons into one?
Yah but that’s not what everyone using the term means, they literally mean renote because that’s what their client calls renoting, like how Damus uses the term repost. They’re “boosting” the post for more engagement.
Boost- help, encourage, lift from below, amplify.
Broadcasting doesn’t really do any of those things.
Boost isn’t in the NIPs vocabulary so use it in the way that makes the most sense to you!
Storytellers…..our greatest weapon. Truly.
he can mock me all he wants, i don’t know who he is, and he doesn’t know who i am. he’s just some dude online.
Mr. Sleepy tell us your favorite meme?
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 I’d disagree “broadcasting” 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 wouldn’t have otherwise ? (npubs who weren’t connected to the authors relays)
this is why i #nostr 🫂
Of all time ? Hard one but probably Dat Boi 🤣🤣 brings back so many memories, n yours ?
Broadcast your first note, no more engagement will happen it’s buried at the bottom of the timeline.
Repost your first note, now it’s on new relays and at the top of everyone’s 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?
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
ReReTruth for ReTruthing a ReTruth?
Vic has spoken.
oh shit waddup
I’m pretty sure it’s called, “recycle” note.
On Truth Social, the users are called ReTards.
I love studying meme history on there. I'm fascinated by the Wojak mythology.
Me too 🤝
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 don’t 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 Sleepy’s test note n broadcast it, it wasn’t on 1 relay anymore which wasn’t 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 that’s not amplifying idk what is. Either way I’m not technical enough to continue down this conversation 🤣 I’d 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 I’ll happily listen to their points n change my mind if it makes sense to me.
I think Semisol is super technical and he loves these kinds of arguments
that was interesting.
ReeTruth, Technically
that form of boost I’ve never done myself or seen
so dis must be why I don’t understand what you guys mean
cause the term boost I know of isn’t 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
My goodness this brings back so much nostalgia 🔥🔥🔥
Anyone remember this 🤣
Agree except 'renote' should be 'self-boost' or something that connects it to boosting rather than connecting it to noting.
Maybe try this one? 🤷🏻
😂😂😂 Truth ²
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he’s already firing at me 
gfy semi don’t u have something to work on, stop arguing with frogs on the internet
Who is going to make boostcasting a feature? Btw, I don't know what that would be.
I like dis one it’s cut from a longer length Matt Furie classic 🔥
I couldn’t find it 😂
idk but I don’t understand how sending to more relays doesn’t increase visibility
I thought more relays = more visibility
kinda the reason why we have blastr relays no
I need to watch this. I forgot like a stoner 🤣
#plebquestion Can we merge the repost, or what ever you want to call it, and the broadcast buttons?
what does new client mean in this context
also was this the case a year ago ?
If it is BTC, the transmission is direct
Note / Renote / ₿ Note / Renote & Note
You post a note. You re-note the note if it's good. You send a ₿ note if it deserves it. You renote and note to create a new note with the old note.
It's not that hard.
YES 🙌 a classic!
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To each there own. Clients will offer more and better filters for users who don’t wanna see “self boosted”… otherwise … it’s currently the the best way to keep important notes in your audience’s “current” timeline …
don't mind it all and I borderline think you're obliged to if it's a banger
This largely resonates with me.
Repost below 👇
This largely resonates with me.
Repost below 👇
This largely resonates with me.
Repost below 👇
Fr fr no cap.
I'm lost 😞 I don't get it 🤔
Any noun can be verbed.
Nost / Boost / Zap / ReNost
this is Nostr not Postr
Absolutely, bumping is incredibly useful and maybe even more in nostr than in Twitter where you can only boost once. My argument was simply about clients treating other things like boosts. Currently, zapping is possible and nice but no client treats it like a boost but they could. Like Twitter uses likes as a reason to feed you stuff, zapps should be a much better reason to feed stuff to users than likes.
#YESTR
that’s the way we do it? 😁
boost = repost, reply, reaction, any type of action that triggers the post to appear on someone else's feed.
Duly noted.
I'm thinking lately that specific to nostr we have 'relay' we can use it to replace 'repost' or 'boost'... I'm relaying this note to you wdyt?
We can replace 'repost' or 'boost' with 'relay'... I'm relaying this note. It is nostr related and it is exactly what you are doing. What do you think?
post / boost / zap / repost
You post a note. You boost it if it's good. You zap it if it deserves a zap. "Repost" will always be creating a new post with old content to me.
That's my take on terminology. Discuss.
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Love this. I’d relay it
Relay > repost
Relay > repost 🤙💜
NOH 
It all works on a truthless system!
Oh shit whaddup
Should do it at meet-ups and conferences 😁
Have course material too
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