Nolan LawsonApr 8, 2017

PSA: if you see a remote toot and think "wow that is an amazing toot, why does it have 0 favs/boosts/replies"? It probably doesn't. It's just that nobody from this instance follows someone who fav'ed/boosted/replied to it.

One thing I found useful is to just eagerly follow people you see in the Federated timeline saying stuff you like. You can always unfollow/block later.

The Masto experience gets fleshed out the more you use an instance. Keep in mind toot.cafe is 4 days old. 😄

Show threadphireApr 9, 2017
Okay so this excellent toot from @nolan has been making me think a lot about how much social proof amplifies echo chambers and how damaging that is, but also how to balance that with a need to signal to people that something is really popular so if you reply/engage with it maybe consider that the person on the receiving end has already seen that comment 37 times.
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Notwithstanding the network effects of boosting/RT-ing/sharing/whatever, even on a normal comment thread on FB or whatever, once a comment has a couple of likes it'll just keep getting more likes even if it's not that much better than any other comment. And people who disagree may feel too intimidated to actually speak up.
Apr 9, 2017 at 12:03amWeb
Show threadphireApr 9, 2017
And Masto could mitigate that to some extent since you only see engagement from your federated network BUT I could also see that making potential pile-ons way worse if you don't see how many other people are already yelling at a toot.