Mastodawn

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

🔥 Repost/Boost 🔥

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

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.