# Testing Boosts on Meta

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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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Basecamp is a popular low-friction project management tool. Their “boosts” are very much like this.

Mastodon “boosts” are their version of a simple retweet, or Tumblr’s reblog. I felt for a moment that using this term could be confusing – but the intent is obvious as soon as you use it.

> [@Ed\_S](#):
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> the name evokes an algorithmic adjustment

It does have that sound. I don’t know what else I’d name it, but if it’s rolled in as a kind of enhanced reaction I suppose it wouldn’t need a name at all.

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