seeing another round of "don't favorite posts on fedi"
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@sarae Feels a bit like this may tell you something about the people who say that. That they don’t see value unless it’s something that expands someone’s reach. A bit of the “influencer” mindset.
What’s wrong with just saying “I like this!”?
@foobarsoft @sarae I had to re-read to understand what the attitude even meant. I'm new here after having spent some time on an algorithm-driven platform, and it's here that "liking" a post started to make sense.
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@foobarsoft @sarae I had to re-read to understand what the attitude even meant. I'm new here after having spent some time on an algorithm-driven platform, and it's here that "liking" a post started to make sense.
quite right. If everyone boosted everything they "liked" I would be swamped in noise and just give up. People curating the thigns the reshare is helpful; I often boost a single post from a thread, but like several others. Sometimes I just like the post, because I genuinely like the post - but don;t neccessarily thing I need to share that thing with everyone that follows me.
I often find new folks to follow from seeing other replies in my feed from and going to the thread - a singular boost give zero context, whereas seeing that reply frmo someone I already follow means they found reason to engage with this other person, so I check them out.
CC: @foobarsoft@mastodon.social @sarae@ecoevo.social
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seeing another round of "don't favorite posts on fedi"
folks it is a kind and lovely thing to favorite someone's post and anyone who tells you not to be kind and lovely has told you something about themself
it's true that it doesn't particulary increase the distribution of your post but the idea that we're all here to get things distributed as far as possible is pretty weird
@sarae I've also seen "don't boost", because supposedly boosting is how servers run up their storage use and become too expensive to maintain
So the only means of interaction remaining to me is to reply, hello
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@sarae The overall kindness and loveliness on fedi is one of my favourite things about being here.
That must be nice. Overall what my users and I get on a daily basis is abuse and harassment.
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seeing another round of "don't favorite posts on fedi"
folks it is a kind and lovely thing to favorite someone's post and anyone who tells you not to be kind and lovely has told you something about themself
it's true that it doesn't particulary increase the distribution of your post but the idea that we're all here to get things distributed as far as possible is pretty weird
@sarae@ecoevo.social
I have four, mutually-exclusive responses to posts (most- to least-common):
* Comment (such as this, obivously)
* Quote re-share (if I feel I have anything to add, especially a "why I reshared")
* "Naked" re-share
* Like/emoji (when I want to convey my feelings about a post but don't feel the post warrants a re-share)
I guess my feeling is, that if I comment or re-share, liking seems kind of redundant? Which is to say, doing one of the other things is an implied "like". -
That must be nice. Overall what my users and I get on a daily basis is abuse and harassment.
@serge I'm sorry to hear that, Serge. I have been a moderator in online spaces in the past, and I know it's a huge and difficult job. I have the positive experience I do here in no small part because of the collective moderation efforts on Fedi and I'm grateful for all that instance admins and moderators do. It's largely invisible work that makes Fedi possible for the rest of us.
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@sarae I often see the same attitude on Tumblr: "Oh you can just do your own thing, we don't interact with posts here."
Sounds good on paper and maybe even a little positive until you realize you desperately want a sign that your audience is out there and that you are seen.
@sarae of course I write this the day before Tumblr decides to blow up their whole notes system by splitting notes between individual reblogs. Tumblr, why are you like this?
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seeing another round of "don't favorite posts on fedi"
folks it is a kind and lovely thing to favorite someone's post and anyone who tells you not to be kind and lovely has told you something about themself
it's true that it doesn't particulary increase the distribution of your post but the idea that we're all here to get things distributed as far as possible is pretty weird
@sarae "Don't like posts on fedi" is about as useful advice as "don't randomly smile at people on the street." The whole point of going to fedi was being able to do what I wanted. I'm going to give people the online equivalent of a friendly (or sometimes wry) smile if I feel like it.
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seeing another round of "don't favorite posts on fedi"
folks it is a kind and lovely thing to favorite someone's post and anyone who tells you not to be kind and lovely has told you something about themself
it's true that it doesn't particulary increase the distribution of your post but the idea that we're all here to get things distributed as far as possible is pretty weird
@sarae
You re not alone, I am spending less and less time here eventually I will just give it a skip.I am already wondering if we’re heading for another Twitter
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seeing another round of "don't favorite posts on fedi"
folks it is a kind and lovely thing to favorite someone's post and anyone who tells you not to be kind and lovely has told you something about themself
it's true that it doesn't particulary increase the distribution of your post but the idea that we're all here to get things distributed as far as possible is pretty weird
@sarae sorry, I favorited this toot XD
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seeing another round of "don't favorite posts on fedi"
folks it is a kind and lovely thing to favorite someone's post and anyone who tells you not to be kind and lovely has told you something about themself
it's true that it doesn't particulary increase the distribution of your post but the idea that we're all here to get things distributed as far as possible is pretty weird
@sarae I love it when people star my posts it makes the happiness in my smile
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seeing another round of "don't favorite posts on fedi"
folks it is a kind and lovely thing to favorite someone's post and anyone who tells you not to be kind and lovely has told you something about themself
it's true that it doesn't particulary increase the distribution of your post but the idea that we're all here to get things distributed as far as possible is pretty weird
@sarae I'm not favoriting for range, I'm favoriting to signal the poster that in some way I resonate with their post (exact resonating depending on the context obviously). That's how I did it back on Twitter and that's how I do it here
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seeing another round of "don't favorite posts on fedi"
folks it is a kind and lovely thing to favorite someone's post and anyone who tells you not to be kind and lovely has told you something about themself
it's true that it doesn't particulary increase the distribution of your post but the idea that we're all here to get things distributed as far as possible is pretty weird
@sarae im pretty new here (my account is a few years old but i stopped using mastodon for a few years and am only returning now) so im always nervous about interacting with posts thinking im doing something wrong. I'm still never sure on boosting, but I do favorite posts all the time so the replies here being generally positive is reassuring :3
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seeing another round of "don't favorite posts on fedi"
folks it is a kind and lovely thing to favorite someone's post and anyone who tells you not to be kind and lovely has told you something about themself
it's true that it doesn't particulary increase the distribution of your post but the idea that we're all here to get things distributed as far as possible is pretty weird
@sarae I’m boosting this both ironically and non ironically.
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seeing another round of "don't favorite posts on fedi"
folks it is a kind and lovely thing to favorite someone's post and anyone who tells you not to be kind and lovely has told you something about themself
it's true that it doesn't particulary increase the distribution of your post but the idea that we're all here to get things distributed as far as possible is pretty weird
@sarae Sometimes, I don't know what to say and click the "favorite" icon as a way of acknowledging what was said. This is often the case when someone makes a heavy or sensitive post, and I simply don't know how to respond such that not even a single emoji would do.
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@sarae @colo_lee @GPJohnston it is very nice to assume someone just wants to share newfound knowledge.
maybe it is worded as "advice" because this a style of conversation people are used to.
you can also word it as "something I learned" and hope that others find useful so I am sharing it.
@coba @sarae @colo_lee @GPJohnston
Yep. Stating things as "this is what I do, and here's why" works a whole lot better for me than telling other people what to do.
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seeing another round of "don't favorite posts on fedi"
folks it is a kind and lovely thing to favorite someone's post and anyone who tells you not to be kind and lovely has told you something about themself
it's true that it doesn't particulary increase the distribution of your post but the idea that we're all here to get things distributed as far as possible is pretty weird
@sarae
theres also the possibility of i like a post but an oomfie might not, so i dont boost it onto their home page -
seeing another round of "don't favorite posts on fedi"
folks it is a kind and lovely thing to favorite someone's post and anyone who tells you not to be kind and lovely has told you something about themself
it's true that it doesn't particulary increase the distribution of your post but the idea that we're all here to get things distributed as far as possible is pretty weird
@sarae Por que no los dos? I mean, at one's discretion.
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seeing another round of "don't favorite posts on fedi"
folks it is a kind and lovely thing to favorite someone's post and anyone who tells you not to be kind and lovely has told you something about themself
it's true that it doesn't particulary increase the distribution of your post but the idea that we're all here to get things distributed as far as possible is pretty weird
@sarae It's my account I do what the fuck I want I will like everything I will post shit untagged I will reblig the same thing twenty times I will piss in the sink
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seeing another round of "don't favorite posts on fedi"
folks it is a kind and lovely thing to favorite someone's post and anyone who tells you not to be kind and lovely has told you something about themself
it's true that it doesn't particulary increase the distribution of your post but the idea that we're all here to get things distributed as far as possible is pretty weird
@sarae 'Liking' instead of boosting is a way to interact without everyone muting you for reposting all sorts of crap they don't care about.
Did I like your post about the Japanese rapper Creepy Nuts? Yes. Does anyone in my instance give a shit? Probably not.
