# Testing Boosts on Meta

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/testing-boosts-on-meta/399835
**Category:** Announcements
**Created:** [April 3, 2026, 9:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/testing-boosts-on-meta/399835 "2026-04-03T09:09:47Z")
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### Author: ![Lilly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/lilly/32/575047_2.png) [@Lilly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lilly)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2026, 1:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/testing-boosts-on-meta/399835/15 "2026-04-03T13:03:14Z")

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i seriously don’t understand the point of this feature if we have reactions already. what am i missing here? what is the benefit of a boost vs like or reaction?

is it akin to a mastodon boost and will it work with activity pub?

> [@Quote Boost support?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quote-boost-support/397569):
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> Awhile ago Mastodon added support for quoting boosts. I’ve looked around in the actor settings and didn’t see anything to enable it? Is there support for this and did I just miss it? Here’s a screenshot of one of the posts from discourse in mastodon showing that the Quote option is disabled.

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