Kirby Conrodhaving a hard time staying off twitter because it still has a more active timeline than on here, and also bc i'm still kind of... not used to the social norms here. also because like, it still feels a little small/claustrophobic over here, just in terms of relative numbers? idk how to really mitigate this
(as an example of social norms i'm still figuring out - on twitter i use the "like" button as a sort of "i saw this / am engaging with it" button, but that seems to be WAY less of a thing here - a ton of toots I see have zero stars / I'm the only person liking it, which makes me feel weird and self-conscious about it? idk)
Joshua McNeill@kirby Favoriting something here doesn't cause it to be shown to people who follow you like it does on Twitter, so it's mainly used just to bookmark things here. On the other hand, for the same reasons, boosting (ie retweeting) is much more common here
@joshisanonymous I've noticed that - and quote retweeting doesn't exist here (as far as I'm aware) which I'm still adjusting to as well
@kirby Yeah, no quote tweeting (which I'm personally very happy about). Another thing that's different for increasing the activity in your TL before you follow a lot of people is to follow hashtags. Search a hashtag and if your server is 4.0+ you'll see an add button on the top right. (Only searchable text is hashtags, also, so they're used a LOT more here than Twitter)