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 (DIR) Post #AsXQ03aCQSB2sSp2Iq by newsmast@newsmast.social
       2024-02-20T12:34:47Z
       
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       📢  “What are Community Feeds? Why has my post been boosted?”You make a post, add a hashtag, and it’s immediately boosted by one of our Community Feeds - plus you get a notification. What’s going on?We’re Newsmast and we’re all about knowledge sharing. We’ve built topical Communities, spaces that anyone can dip in and out of to get involved in the things they care about. Communities combine and curate posts from all over the Fediverse into an easy to access single source.#newsmast
       
 (DIR) Post #AsXQ0AiFutmSzTe4Ke by newsmast@newsmast.social
       2024-02-20T12:35:08Z
       
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       That’s why you’ll have seen us boosting your posts. You’ve probably used a hashtag our human curators think suits the conversations in a Community, or our curators have followed you from a Community because you're a leading voice posting regularly on a topic. Your post is then boosted into an organised space that people can see, if they choose to.
       
 (DIR) Post #AsXQ0HtVDTw7GNxeKm by newsmast@newsmast.social
       2024-02-20T12:35:22Z
       
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       When you post with a hashtag, your post is pulled into a feed with all the other posts on that hashtag. What we do is keep it safe and on topic by adding extra layers of curation - all done by real people, not AI. We add carefully researched accounts which post regularly on topic, but usually don’t use any hashtags.  Finally, we cut out a lot of irrelevant content which comes through using filters and mutes.
       
 (DIR) Post #AsXQ0PcQUr1xDk27pQ by newsmast@newsmast.social
       2024-02-20T12:35:37Z
       
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       For every 10 hashtags we might bring together, we’ll often have 50 or more filters in place, and a lot of mutes. Our human moderators constantly update and edit these filters too, to stay on top of the conversations. If you want to join our volunteer moderation team, let us know!The end result is timely, informative content - including your post.So why all the boosts and notifications?
       
 (DIR) Post #AsXQ0XOBbgORJtQrk8 by newsmast@newsmast.social
       2024-02-20T12:35:50Z
       
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       We wanted to make our communities accessible to everyone in the Fediverse, without the need to use a dedicated app. We’d love to have the ready-made ability to create Community Feeds, but Mastodon and the Fediverse don’t have the built in tools to do this. So, we’ve adapted existing technologies to make things work.
       
 (DIR) Post #AsXQ0fFGOk0dgXJqwi by newsmast@newsmast.social
       2024-02-20T12:37:44Z
       
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       We’ve used customised accounts to create the communities, and automated accounts to boost them around the Fediverse so everyone can be a part of it. Unfortunately, notifications are a side effect which we can’t turn off due to the limits of Mastodon’s capability. The good news is that you can turn them off yourself. If you don’t want to follow a feed, and would like to stop seeing notifications: just mute the relevant Feed account. You’ll find them all at newsmast.community.
       
 (DIR) Post #AsXQ0mhAhNUan7Qjuy by newsmast@newsmast.social
       2024-02-20T12:38:01Z
       
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       If you have any questions, want to know more, or simply want to remove your content from Community Feeds just let us know by private messaging us or emailing support@newsmast.org.