Big Joelmastodon please let me see the likes and number of comments a post has at a glance. i feel like i am shouting in an empty hallway. i feel very alone all the time
I feel like it's a conscious design choice to de-emphasize caring about that kind of thing?? but it really makes the site feel like not a soul is ever on it. i dislike it a surprising amount lol
Natalie 🪗@biggestjoel it is kind of a conscious design choice (although it also has to do with the federated nature of the fediverse). I think one of the philosophies of Mastodon + The Fediverse is not to reduce social interactions to just... numbers and instead focus on real interaction. I guess that sounds a bit preachy, but you don't see people on here saying "LMAO RATIO GOTTEM" every 5 seconds like you see on Twitter, and I think that's for the best.
Kavi 🌉🚱@natalie @biggestjoel this is one of the things I don't really like about mastodon, they seem to be trying to make it less addictive or whatever but it mostly seems to consist of degrading the experience by removing basic features
Like I've never actually seen a ratio derail a conversation that otherwise seemed like it might be going somewhere
@notkavi ratios don't really derail conversations but I just feel like ratioing is a symptom of what happens when people get completely obsessed with the numbers on social media. and to me personally it's just a bit upsetting to see that
@natalie people aren't obsessed with the numbers, they're interested in the popularity that underlies the numbers. It's like a more personally directed twitter poll
@notkavi I mean the numbers obviously represent "clout" I'm mostly not talking literally here... (but things like just replying "ratio" on a post are so divorced from any actual social interaction that I basically see it as just a pure fixation on numbers). Anyway, I just personally don't really like the quantification of clout to be so emphasized on social media. It's always going to be there in some capacity, but I just think it can get people too fixated on raising those numbers to feel happy and I personally don't like that.