There are all these posts about how "liking" posts on mastodon doesn't affect post reach/engagement...

I was only ever liking posts because I liked them or as acknowledgement that I'd seen them.

Differing perceptions and uses of social media are a funny thing.

@talopine it is like people from Twitter forgot how to be friendly and look for friends. They seem to expect an algorithm to tell them what to look at and who to follow. I can't blame then, I was never there, but apparently they also had to be on guard constantly looking for users, abusers, and people just trying to sell them something.