A couple of PSAs that new users may find useful:
- Faving toots does nothing, your followers (and local timeline) will only see things you boost
- Following people from other instances ensures you can see their toots in the future and that they'll show up on your instance's federated timeline
@slipstream I mean it makes the person you faved feel good about themselves but it doesn't propagate.
@brunodias favoriting does let the author know you liked it
(Obviously, faving as a thumbs up at the person who tooted is fine and works, but people are used to Twitter where their "likes" will promote tweets into other people's timelines)
@brunodias Favorites showing up in timelines is a very recently added "feature." One thing here is that there is no way to look at your past list of favorites. Maybe that will actually encourage boosts, since that is really the only way of having a long-term record that you interacted with a toot.
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@larrybob @brunodias you can indeed see your own favorites. its underneath Preferences
@wakest ah, thanks for pointing that out.
@brunodias wait, that was a thing on twitter? I only used tweet-deck and plume, never saw that.
@maloki Yeah, on twitter web and the official mobile apps, it's one of the newer "features", you see tweets that multiple people you follow favorited, which is great, I love seeing viral tweets from accounts I deliberately don't follow
@maloki @brunodias I turned off the algorithmic timeline as soon as it popped up and ALSO stopped using the favs as soon as they turned into likes, so I also had no idea. But I guess I can see where they were going with that, the algorithm needs to be fed data from somewhere.
@tobascodagama oh yeah I turned that off the first time it appeared... I tend to always go through settings on new registration of sites / apps, to make sure I Know and Understand (to some extent) what they do.
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@brunodias Isn't that what boosting is for?
Which reminds me. Is there a way to add a comment to a boosted post?
@brunodias Faving I suppose has the function of telling the author that you liked what they said.
@brunodias I get notification that people favourited my status. https://octodon.social/media/xye8-c1_wKC1coqPnZY
@brunodias I think you meant "faving toots does exactly what it was supposed to do all along and has a distinct usage model from boosting
instead of favs being functionally indistinguishable from boosts / shares
which, uh
makes sense"
@brunodias See, I saw that you fav'd my reply and now I feel better about myself!
Also seriously fav as acknowledge-while-let-the-other-have-the-last-word is super amazing in a digital text space.
@joshg @brunodias The fave is analogous to the like as far as it's actually used. But I like that they don't show up in the TL.
-Faving toot shows the OP you appreciate their toot and to keep them coming. Faving toots also creates a private list for you under the "Getting started" menu where you can locate and relive the faved toot experience. To say that faving toots does nothing is wrong.
@brunodias Faving toots is essentially bookmarking, no? Or saying “thumbs up.” or both.
@brunodias Incrementing a counter isn't "nothing", but I understand what you mean.