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1. Sebastian (webmind@social.weho.st)'s status on Sunday, 03-Dec-2017 04:55:53 EST Sebastian

   Silently boosting...

   Sometimes I just want a message to exist on different instances, I don't want to boost it up again, and/or push it into my timeline.

   There's a trick for that. If you copy paste the direct link to a post into your search-box, that instance imports it and it exists there on the federated timeline and will appear in searches.

   You can find the direct link by right-clicking the post-date of a post and selecting 'copy link location'.

   #mastodon

   1. Victorian Sparkgap Kitsune (enkiv2@niu.moe)'s status on Sunday, 03-Dec-2017 09:17:35 EST Victorian Sparkgap Kitsune

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      @webmind
      Any idea how this works behind the scenes? There are circumstances where I wish this worked via the API (since non-federated messages don't have a local post ID and thus can't be boosted).