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The "Boost all the toots!" attitude on Mastodon and the unread posts counter on Friendica, Hubzilla and (streams). Whenever a new post or DM or comment appears on your stream, it's marked as unread until you read it.
One huge difference between Mastodon on the one hand and these three on the other hand is when you receive notifications. Friendica, Hubzilla and (streams) do not notify you by default when a random stranger mentions you, only when someone whom you follow mentions you.
They do not notify you about new posts from your contacts either; that's what the unread posts counter is for. What they do notify you about is when a conversation which you follow receives new comments. You can follow a conversation either manually or by commenting on it or by liking or disliking the start post or a comment.
Regardless, new posts fall under unread. And so do new comments on posts which have already appeared in your stream.
So what happens in practice? Let's assume someone whom you're connected to boosts a Mastodon toot from a very popular account to you, e.g. Eugen Rochko or George Takei. After that toot has been boosted, 240 people reply to that toot.
On Mastodon, you get
one notification for that boost. That's all.
On Friendica, Hubzilla and (streams), you don't get any notification. But you get one unread post and 240 unread comments.
So boosts from connections on Mastodon who boost stuff they find interesting (but you don't necessarily) every two minutes clutters your stream. But what
completely and utterly clutters it are the replies to the boosted posts.
This also means that if someone replies to a post you've received as a boost several months ago, the whole thread with the boosted post is pushed up to "most recent" in your stream again by the new comment.
No wonder more and more Hubzilla and (streams) users activate channel filters and then filter out boosts/repeats.
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