I think it's great that we can't see the number of favorites on toots in the feed.
To be honest, I think it would be better if there was no 'like button' at all: the little dopamine hit of validation is one of the addictive elements of social media.
It would also be an advantage not to see follower #'s on profiles or like #'s on detail expands.
Still: I think seeing replies is different b/c it encourages entry into ongoing conversations.
Hey thanks very much for finding this - I didn't know about either feature.
Thanks very much for this - this was very helpful
@tiffanycli This makes sense.
w/r/t local feed:
I've been using the smaller mstdn.social - are you enjoying the local feed on the significantly larger mastodon.social?
I have an account on both instances - I heard mastodon.social got slow to load, but it also clearly has more people I know on it.
Given that I haven't used either account much, switching would seem pretty easy.
@tiffanycli Mastodon feels surprisingly impoverished on exploration, and stumbling upon new people, sites, etc.
Clicking Federated or Local produces rapid strings of mostly non-English toots that I can't engage with.
Clicking #Explore is weirdly a very slow trickle.
Hiding replies sort of kills conversation potential. It doesn't actually feel that *engaging*.
I think this might be more viable on some instances or for some power users but...it doesn't actually replace twitter's UX
Is there a way to do social media well?
A way that would build and strengthen in person social connections?
A way that would promote attitudes of kindness and understanding rather than nudging people towards meanness?
I think there is a real conflict b/w different things people legitimately want from work.
One is a paycheck for work product and nothing more.
Another is doing something fulfilling with people they like spending time with. At the far end, pay might only represent what allows someone to afford to fit that meaning-giving work into their lives.
People fall on diff. ends of this given the job + other factors.
I'm not sure that favoring one desire is always the pro-labor policy.