James 🌱 (a human)
Della ✔️I keep seeing lots of long-time #fediverse users saying 'don't favourite posts it does nothing' but actually when you favourite my posts it makes me smile and I'm sure I'm not the only one.
Dennis Faucher 
@djdellamorte Exactly. I like people to know that they made me smile/think.
Feders 😷 wear a mask@djdellamorte 😀 it also shows people smiling at the same thing so I check their profile to find new connections
elizabeth veldon
Austin Godber@djdellamorte that's the whole point. Have a lovely day.
Kiran Castellino 
@djdellamorte I think there's still a lot of people who think that to show you like/appreciate something, you need to show it to everyone else. Sometimes you just want to let the poster know that you liked it
Not with Stupid; I AM Stupid.@djdellamorte Favouriting posts is a form of bookmarking stuff I like to which I can refer to at a later time.
Shuffler@peemee @djdellamorte
Which makes me wonder, then, what the difference is between Mastodon's "Favorites" and "Bookmarks," since they have both.
Which makes me wonder, then, what the difference is between Mastodon's "Favorites" and "Bookmarks," since they have both.
Marcus@shuffler @peemee @djdellamorte Favorite is for you to tell the person who posted you liked it. Bookmark is for you to find it again later.
@peemee @shuffler @djdellamorte
Different people can use the same tool differently, but it doesn't invalidate either of their uses. For me, I like to favorite many many toots, but only bookmark things I want to come back to. If I were to try and dig through favorites it would be a real pain in the toot! 😃
@mnw @shuffler @djdellamorte Right now I'm reviewing my Favourites, deleting some and reassigning others to Bookmarks.
@shuffler @djdellamorte Some apps have Bookmarks accessed via multiple choice menus whereas they all have Favourites directly accessible.
Peter Sterne@shuffler @peemee @djdellamorte I think bookmarks are private, so the author cannot see that you have bookmarked their post.
joehumphrey🏴☠️@djdellamorte they give me little hits of dopamine. Every time my watch buzzes, I smile
Tea 🍵 ✍️@djdellamorte favoriting to me has always been "Hey I saw this" or "That was funny." I never did it to continue to feed the algorithm
@MereLeFey yeah, I mean, I'm maybe not doing social media 'right' for my line of work 😂😂
A Gay Owl@MereLeFey @djdellamorte Seconding this!
Morag Perkins
Tarasque@MereLeFey @djdellamorte Exactly! Sometimes you're too tired or feel too emptied to comment but still want the person to know you read and appreciated.
And being notified of a favouriting (er, a like?) makes me feel like I'm less alone in this wild wide social media universe 🙂
And being notified of a favouriting (er, a like?) makes me feel like I'm less alone in this wild wide social media universe 🙂
Tom Walker@djdellamorte what's strange about this is that the same was the case on birdsite until a few years ago - the algo-feed showing you things because of likes is a relatively recent addition
@tomw yes you're absolutely right, I was a long long time bird app user, maybe it's still instilled in might
demize@djdellamorte this is the only reason I’ve ever liked/favorited posts
I don’t want it to do anything! It doing nothing here is a feature, not a bug
Kenneth Finnegan@djdellamorte I'm here for sending people the endorphin hits.
Fab 
@djdellamorte Indeed :)
Brian Swetland@djdellamorte I favorite (many) posts that make me smile, or are interesting, to let the author know that I read and enjoyed them.
I boost (some) posts that I think other people really should see.
I bookmark (few) posts that I want to be sure to find later (maybe to read linked articles in depth or reference elsewhere).
AustinPSheehan@swetland @djdellamorte
Best way to do it, IMO.
If you boost everything you like, people are going to end up muting/unfollowing you.
Best way to do it, IMO.
If you boost everything you like, people are going to end up muting/unfollowing you.
@AustinPSheehan @djdellamorte You can also just disable showing boosts from specific users if someone's a prolific booster or has poor taste in boosts but their actual posts are still of interest. A nice thing about mastodon/fedi is lots of user control.
Jennifer Milton@djdellamorte I hit the favored star if I appreciate someone’s thought/toot. It has nothing to do with past Twitter behavior and EVERYTHING to do with showing appreciation. Nothing more, nothing less.
Sanne Hoekstra@djdellamorte
Like a post to let the author know you like it.
Boost the post if you like is so much that you want to share it with your followers.
Like a post to let the author know you like it.
Boost the post if you like is so much that you want to share it with your followers.
Just Liz@djdellamorte Kindness is a wonderful thing, isn't it? Keep on liking!
martin@djdellamorte me too della
Lorenzo@djdellamorte Spreading smiles is 1/2 of the fun of being on a social network.
Have a great day!
Joe in Fife 🏴@djdellamorte i like it when my posts are favourited, as it's often by people who don't follow me, but who enjoy similar content and sometimes have interesting timelines
Patrick "Trick" Morris 
@djdellamorte I do it all the time. A lot of the time, I'll favorite a post because it was clearly directed specifically at me, and it wouldn't make sense to blast it all over the fediverse. There are plenty of other situations where you might want to just signal you appreciate a post without needing to amplify it.
So, yeah, "this," as the kids say these days.
Ngati Pakeha Kuia@djdellamorte it’s appreciation, support or whatever the context of the post. It’s nice.
Jasmine Mangalaseril@djdellamorte I agree with you - liking/favouriting makes me smile (both as the liked and the liker). And besides, isn't liking/favouriting a post part of building community and connections?
I, too, am seeing some interesting "don't do this" posts from what seem to be established accounts that I'm slightly puzzled by.
Lilian Edwards@cardamomaddict @djdellamorte yes I've been puzzled. I never thought of liking as nudging the algo ; i thought of it as a gift to the poster, sometimes an ack to a replier
@lilianedwards @djdellamorte For those of us who knew the old days, this set-up make sense. For those who've only known algo-driven platforms (FB, Insta (&c), the idea of liking something without it being rewarded somehow (it then gets pushed to more eyeballs or you then get fed more similar "suggested accounts to follow" doesn't make sense.
@cardamomaddict I'm not sure everyone is actually smart enough to know this
@lilianedwards lol The algos are doing their jobs then :)
Atheist Revolution@djdellamorte That makes me wonder how many of those long-time fediverse users are the ones I see boosting their own posts.
alejandro@djdellamorte i feel like fav'ing is a really nice little text-based way to gently communicate approval or affection or interest. 'this makes me smile' and 'i wanna think more on this' and 'love this for u!' are pretty useful ideas to express.
Kerry Buckley@djdellamorte It never occurred to me to favourite tweets for any other reason than to show appreciation to the author. Maybe because I use a third-party client and have escaped the hell of an algorithmic timeline.
~n@djdellamorte I really like that the favs are “just for me”. It’s no longer some uncomfortable weird sort of competition.
Svenja Lohmann@djdellamorte same actually 🙂
Les Orchard@djdellamorte Like... what else should it do? Folks got the algorithmic brain worms
Swift (will be at EMF)@lmorchard @djdellamorte I think they're generally responding to people who have internalised the behaviour of liking every post by friends in order to boost them in the algorithm.
Robert@swift @lmorchard @djdellamorte I would simply like all my friends' posts because they post good and that's why they're my friends
Ruben Schade 
🔰 🇦🇺@djdellamorte Can confirm. Which I've now also indicated with a favourite :)
sandyknauer@djdellamorte it tells me that someone was interested in what I posted but that it wasn't necessarily something they believed needed to be boosted to everyone they know. I'm fine with that and appreciate them letting me know I said something that resonated with them.
Fish Id Wardrobe@djdellamorte I'm mystified by this one.
* I can see when folks have favourited my toot
* I can see how many people have favourited someone else's toot
* I can see the list of people that favourited a toot
What are people expecting it to do?
Anne Carpenter@fishidwardrobe @djdellamorte They are referring to favorites not affecting an algorithm that prioritizes showing popular posts to others feeds. And some apps for mastodon don’t show favorite counts.
@DrAnneCarpenter @djdellamorte Well, that's nothing to do with favourites; we don't *have* an algorithm. "The problem with this bicycle is it doesn't have a button to drop green shells"
Drummy™@djdellamorte absolutely, I'd rather people like than do nothing.
holly hoppet 
@djdellamorte faving tells someone you like their post! what else does it need to do???
Tigg aka Sandra Lindsey
Matthew Turland@djdellamorte I've been using bookmarks for things I want to keep around only until I can review them in more depth, and favorites for things I want to look at again because they make me smile, and I hope the author smiles when they see I marked it as a favorite. I think it's working well for me. 🙂
uncomfy 🇵🇭@djdellamorte they probably mean it doesn't do much since usually we depend the algo on birdsite or facesite. i still like posts instead of boosting them since it will just crowd my feed and annoy the heck out of ppl
Steven Hoefer@djdellamorte It doesn’t feed any algorithms, but it does nourish the happy parts of my brain.
DebsWithCats@djdellamorte I am the same. I like it. I don’t need all of the world to see my posts. It’s nice that my followers simply like what I say.