Sara5d ago

seeing another round of "don't favorite posts on fedi"

folks it is a kind and lovely thing to favorite someone's post and anyone who tells you not to be kind and lovely has told you something about themself

it's true that it doesn't particulary increase the distribution of your post but the idea that we're all here to get things distributed as far as possible is pretty weird

Show threadRosy5d ago

@sarae oh no, not this nonsense again... I remember last time they were saying, "never fav or boost, only leave comments!" as if there aren't enough reply guys already!

actual discussion is good of course, but commenting for the sake of commenting... why?

Show threadSara

@lalah that really confused me as well

commenting doesn't increase post visibility in this system, and yeah...unless I have something to say I should keep my mouth shut

hell a lot of the time when I have something to say I should DEFINITELY keep my mouth shut, lol

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Show threadTuukka R4d ago

@sarae @lalah

Commenting does *decrease* post conversation visibility, though. The worse the noise-to-signal ratio, the earlier people give up reading a thread

Show threadtrissc̈hen4h ago
@Tuuktuuk @sarae @lalah yes and that’s indeed annoying at times, but also technically it actually sorta increases visibility, when someone looks at someone’s replies or has their friends’ replies set to appear in their timeline. Definitely not a reason to reply for of course :D