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kind of surprised how few likes (stars? favs? minimum viable actions of approval?) toots on here get compared to twitter

i'm seeing lots of posts with dozens of retoots and comments yet barely any stars

is this a bug? cultural thing in this corner? in all of the fediverse?

@delca you can only see the favs from your own instance, not globally
Cuz there's no point to that other than indicating the OP that someone likes their post, there's not algorithm or anything like that
If you want to spread a post you comment something or boost it!!!

@Lorewaifu this sounds like a good way to incentivize engagement by making boosting dependant on it, thanks for the explanation

@delca

yeah the average fedizen seems to believe that

boost>star>reply

while the obviously better thing is

star>reply>boost

i just ignore and boost little

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