# Testing Boosts on Meta

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/testing-boosts-on-meta/399835
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**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: ![awesomerobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/awesomerobot/32/142900_2.png) [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2026, 3:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/testing-boosts-on-meta/399835/22 "2026-04-03T15:27:19Z")

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I imagine the name is meant to be sort of like “morale boost” you’re “gassing someone up” as it goes — this is essentially 1:1 with the [basecamp](https://3.basecamp-help.com/article/391-boosts) flavor of reactions.

> [@Ed\_S](#):
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> I very much hope this is optional: it doesn’t seem attractive to me for my forums.

Yes, will 100% be optional

> [@j.jaffeux](#):
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> Mid/Long term we will most likely unify boosts/reactions/likes so a community can decide to pick one of them depending on their requirements/size/kind/…

> [@putty](#):
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> I’m teetering back and forth on whether this would be useful or not.

It likely varies significantly by site — there are cases where sites reduce the minimum post length which tends to create a situation where a lot of people end up replying with “cool” “love it” or whatever. Doing that with boosts allows for this sort of noise while occupying a little less of the discussion feed.

> [@Lilly](#):
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> is it akin to a mastodon boost and will it work with activity pub?

nope

> [@Jagster](#):
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> How does a boost look to other users? Another bump, but a lite version?

It doesn’t bump the discussion, just sends the boosted user a notification that contains the boost content

> [@Ed\_S](#):
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> what’s the chance of toxic content appearing in boosts? who will see, who will police?

just as likely as any other text input — if you click a boost it reveals a flag icon (maybe making this hover on desktop makes it more discoverable?), so it can be flagged and addressed like moderators like posts

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