Mastodon was originally built to be a tool for conversations, not a broadcasting tool.
Twitter mostly is a broadcasting tool (build your own audience/echo chamber) and it looks like people are now missing some of these features in Mastodon.
What are your thoughts?
@bitbraindev After finding a cosy instance and settling in I myself never want to sign up for a centralised/commercial social network ever again.
That aspect of Twitter breeds a lot of what made it toxic. Clout chasing culture, engagement farm, ragebaiting, monetisation of attention and dissent...
I think we need to keep that sort of mindset away from Mastodon if we want to keep the healthier environment we have
@VileLasagna one could even argue that the concept of "favourites" is not really needed.
"As an artist - how am I supposed to know people like my work?"
People will follow you if they like your stuff. Removing favourites would completely eliminate that Clout chasing aspect from Mastodon, too (although, it is not as easy to 'farm' likes on here)
@bitbraindev The numbers being private negate a lot of that, and there being no algorithmically propelled content does the rest.
I DO like the feature for both its uses though, saving it to a personal list which you may want to revisit later as well as a "read receipt". Sometimes you just want to digitally "nod in response" without having anything else to add and this does the trick of bridging the asynchronous void
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Vile Lasagna