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.
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
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.