Graeme
PammyStarr 
✍️I like how Mastodon breaks social media. A like button is the secret sauce that controls the masses. But on Mastodon, the like button is just a “send my complements to the chef.” It serves no other purpose.
eva.schue@pammystarr so far this and the no quote retweet are my favorites. I've also really come around to the content wrappers. I delete emails if I'm not interested in the subject line... love scrolling right past things I don't have the energy or interest to think about.
Lyre Calliope@pammystarr Breaks? Fixes!
jeSuisatire neindochohh ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷjust don't dDos our minds
KaraOhki@pammystarr Right! I’m learning to be a better booster.
knowgum@pammystarr
Love the description of the purpose of the 'Like' button on Mastodon.
Here, you're encouraged to think for yourself &, as there is no equivalent of the 'quote tweet', what you say can't be misused or misquoted as can happen on the bird site.
It's all very civilised.
Don Melton
Brood Tea@pammystarr I think of them as valentines. "Hey, thanks, that was nice."
I spread them liberally.
jordan
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Ambigram Art@pammystarr Mastoden is anti-viral in its nature.
https://uxdesign.cc/mastodon-is-antiviral-design-42f090ab8d51
Craving Waffles@Ambigramart @pammystarr That was a great article! Reminds me of what Twitter used to be, before it was weaponized.
Jeff Yang@pammystarr but isn’t it true that other people can see the number of likes on a post? That seems to be some kind of signal beyond 1:1 approval
@originalspin no, I don’t think anyone can see the number of likes.
Miles McNerney@originalspin @pammystarr I can see the number of likes/faves from accounts on my own server. But for instance I’m seeing only 8 on that post in your screenshot, and when I look they’re all from my server
Alex Taylor@uncle_miles @originalspin @pammystarr some apps yes and some no but it’s definitely less prominent all round.
Importantly I like that it invites a different practice. Boosting is the means of promoting and we should be boosting lots to thicken the network.
Sammitch 
@uncle_miles @originalspin @pammystarr it kind of makes sense, though. Since Mastodon is federated there's no central "source of truth" to count faves/boosts across nodes, and you can't necessarily trust that what other nodes say is accurate.
Dario@pammystarr couldn’t agree more. I legit believe the lack of a like button due to its association with social ‘media’, has impact.
Nicholas de Wolff@pammystarr this is the first clear explanation I've read of the star's disruptive value proposition, thank you!
keeps vis.social running@pammystarr I love that too :)
Recurver 🎯Yes... much.
And a like and a boost says... my compliments to the chef. Hey, you guys should eat here... he does great food!
Les Lore@pammystarr I love this version of the like button because I truly only want to complement the chef. no one else needs to know.
Thatch@pammystarr Chefs Kiss fingers.
Eve Jones@pammystarr That's the perfect description of the 'favourite' or 'like' feature
danbri@pammystarr can’t we use it to find stuff we’ve liked?
@danbri you search hashtags to find things you like.
@pammystarr but what’s the hashtag for all the stuff I have liked / favourited here? they have nothing in common consistently.
@danbri there is always more stuff you’ll like. Follow people and you’ll see some of what their friends posts.
@pammystarr i think we are talking past each other. I just want a consistent way to find eg your post on Likes that I liked, in say a couple years time (unless you deleted it).
@danbri I believe if you favorited my post you’ll always have it. But you can’t search a string of words to find it wherever it is on Mastodon.
Irongeek (he/him)@danbri @pammystarr I used to have exactly this problem with bird site - “favourite” sounds like a list of things to come back to. I am sure you could pull out a list of everything you’ve favourited (is there a client app that does that?) but if used in the conventional (compliments to the chef) way, this could be a very long list.
@danbri @pammystarr but fundamentally, what I love about being on here is that you can describe exactly what effect your interactions have - as opposed to other sites where an interaction is a bit of data to be fed into an algorithm to do ‘stuff’
Talon@danbri @pammystarr you can indeed. There is a list of all the things you have favorited.
Transatlantic Crochet 🇮🇸@pammystarr Again, very remiscent of Tumblr
Nedra Weinreich@pammystarr This is what Twitter's star button used to be before the algorithm. I used it primarily to bookmark things I wanted to read later (before that functionality came along). Didn't even necessarily mean I liked the content.
Paolo Redaelli
kitt/nicole :e-liter-4k: 
@pammystarr i just really like getting likes tbh. they make me happy ^^
Ryan the hepcat 🐱@pammystarr I thought the purpose of the like button was to make me question what I could have done differently to earn a boost/retoot.
Jakub Neruda@pammystarr I personaly despise 'like' feature on other platforms because whatever other people like then shows up in my timeline.
For that reason I seldomly like stuff because it could annoy my followers. Not here though. I like Mastodon 🙂
hannibalism@pammystarr same for the reblog button: “i hear you and i stan what you just posted”
Robert George 𓇳𓃀𓁹𓏏𓇥𓆓𓀀
ricardo 
@pammystarr well put!
Mike Taylor 🦕@pammystarr Maybe it should be called the "thank" button?
@pammystarr The "boost" button too, instead of letting people make unseen comments about someone, all boosting does is shares a thing to your followers *without comment*.
Xerz 💗@pammystarr that’s literally how I have always used it on Twitter and I despised it when they made it into a statistically-driven RT
Polychrome 
@xerz @pammystarr didn't know it ended up like that, I used it the same way until I left it years ago.
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Cyber YukiNot to mention, they're obnoxious AF. (People hate them but they have no way to stop it so they just get used to it). This is why I always post this ProZD skit on social media feeds, is exactly on point.
social media feeds
Kelson's Sorta Old Account@pammystarr As it should be!
Roger Ernest@pammystarr My compliments to the chef 😀
🇨🇦 Steve@pammystarr Well, also, "add this to my list."
I kind of wish those two functions were separated.
Kate McGinty / Caryn Caldwell@pammystarr I love that. There are so many witty, fun, funny, smart people on here, and I want to send tons of compliments to people for their insights and brilliance without some algorithm trying to interpret it in whatever inhumane way it was programmed to do.
Dom@pammystarr as a results I feel much more comfortable using it. Though boost feels too "heavy" for things I would have liked on twitter (to give a sort of soft reshare). Probably just need to get used to different norms.
Paul McGrane@pammystarr oh that's true. I have only been using Tweetbot for years so I am unfamiliar with the real website, but I often like to peruse the "likes" of people I respect. Hmm!
That's gonna be a letdown until it might change.
Erich Schulz@pammystarr I wish there was some more advanced filtering and sorting algorithms tho. Maybe soon?
orihoch@pammystarr yes!
Also, I like the idea that even if someone forked mastodon and added a likes counter (which is totally possible) - it won't work properly because any aggregated statistical data must be based on a central authority to verify it. In a decentralized / federated network any server could easily fake like counters.
Dimas T.@pammystarr as it should be! 😄
I AM BANKSY ☕ / 🗑🔥
Johnny Profane ÂûDonchya just love that?
Feeds my soul. So totally anti-transactional.
Like love should be.
Brandon "Dreg Mangler" Kirkman@pammystarr and honestly I love that for it. I just want people to know I like things and not be like “oh no… da algorithm!”
Scott Thomson@pammystarr how is that different to how it works on Twitter? Does liking a tweet do something different to liking a toot?