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
(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)
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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 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.