You recently onboarded Mastodon:
If you like something DO NOT 'favourite' a post, as it does little because the main feed is NOT algorithmically curated.*
INSTEAD
π₯ Repost/Boost π₯
so posts can travel through networks via followers
And write yourself, fill the feed.
Sometimes I even repost my replies I made to other posts if they are substantial
* That's different to the other platforms and I had to actively change my behaviour to adapt when I came here
do not favorite a post, that only tells the person who wrote the post that you liked it, the most basic kind of human interaction
um so why was my last trending post that showed up on my instance's trending feed the most favorited one but the least boosted? it got like less than 3 boosts but more than 5 favorites if I remember right. I'm not challenging you or anything just stating that I had a different experience.
But surely you remember a time when we were just communicating acknowledgement/approval/support in a super lightweight way to the original poster, before we saw Likes as messages to the recommendation algorithm?
There's a lot to argue about (weren't Likes always meant to the algo before we fully realised it /// or : didn't it replace more engaged interactions like comments with something lazier), but I'll always reject the idea that Likes are useless because they don't contribute to the propagation of a post. I don't think the role of every social network user is to be a human recommendation algorithm. I think we all deserve to have our own weirdly curated profile that is not necessarily the full mirror of what we like.
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