@jimpjorps @Gargron to add to this, when you like an artist's post you tell them "good job" but you also save the post for later in a list that you can go back to if you wanted to be able to reference it or share it with a smaller group than your full follower list (this is useful artists' audiences, but also artists themselves)

brands don't care about that, they want replies and retweets as fast and frequent as possible, and now those will be the only viable choices

@jimpjorps @Gargron Twitter staff member:

> "I remember getting a 'fav' once..."

@jimpjorps @Gargron imagine breaking your website for years trying to drive engagement and then breaking the single thing that keeps people feverishly addicted to their notifications

@logo @Gargron if it's an anti-abuse thing it's just going to lead to several times as many "your a dick" replies instead of those people just passively faving a dunk

@jimpjorps @Gargron I honestly don't think they'll do it; it was reported as something Jack tossed out, and they issued a very peevish PR response along the lines of "well we're always looking at improving everything". Chances are good one engineer pointed out the dopamine problem and they chucked it in the bin already

@logo @jimpjorps @Gargron I could totally see this as ending up being the case.

@Lumb Get her on mastodon, that one's easy

@Dingsbums Great! I recommend doing an introductions post https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/06/how-to-become-a-successful-artist-on-mastodon/

@Gargron thank you for the warm welcome. I plan to look into this site tomorrow. It is pretty late and I jumped in here to secure the name haha