Tucker TeagueIf you enjoy someone's post on #Mastodon go ahead and click the star. If someone tells you that's meaningless because there's no #algorithm, ignore them. Sure, boost the post too if you want others to also see the post, but don't think telling someone you like what they posted is somehow unimportant. In real life I don't tell someone, "good job," or "well said," or "I love that," for the sake of some algorithm, I do it because I'm human and they are too. It's fundamental to being truly social.
Wijsgeer@tuckerteague it also suggest that the only reason I "liked" posts on Twitter was because of the algorithm. That's not true, it is a form of communication towards the poster. Human interaction. And I can for the life of me not see why this part of it wouldn't be the same here.
@wijsgerig Yes. In a kind of backwards way, when folks start mentioning there's no algorithm here it's like they're bringing a kind of "algorithm way of thinking" to help guide everyone here to somehow make the site work better. Boosting is good too, but I like the human side of this more than the "gamefication" of social networks.
Mathew Jobs@tuckerteague @wijsgerig True, without boosting it would be difficult to discover new people on the #fediverse.