Mastodawn

“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

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qenya 4d ago

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0 guesses at why kids love living in this part of the city the most. 😻

#libraries #epl #yeg #caturday #cats

qenya 5d ago

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Lady Laura

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Jacob Mar 13

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#glasgow #humour #keepglasgowweird #sign #partick

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