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“favoriting posts does nothing” is a common thought but it’s not accurate in any sense
mastodon has trends and all interactions play into that! your admin has to approve them (and personally I have stopped caring entirely about approving them 😅) but it’s a feature
and more importantly, favorites send a nice little notification to the person who made the post! that’s what they’ve always been for! long before twitter started showing you posts other people liked, favorites were there and that’s all they did
don’t let what twitter turned favorites into make you forget what their original purpose was!! @sarae https://ecoevo.social/@sarae/116234378485815564
Sara (@[email protected])
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
Sara
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