If you enjoy someone's post on #Mastodon go ahead and click the star. If someone tells you that's meaningless because there's no #algorithm, ignore them. Sure, boost the post too if you want others to also see the post, but don't think telling someone you like what they posted is somehow unimportant. In real life I don't tell someone, "good job," or "well said," or "I love that," for the sake of some algorithm, I do it because I'm human and they are too. It's fundamental to being truly social.
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@wijsgerig@mas.to Yes. In a kind of backwards way, when folks start mentioning there's no algorithm here it's like they're bringing a kind of "algorithm way of thinking" to help guide everyone here to somehow make the site work better. Boosting is good too, but I like the human side of this more than the "gamefication" of social networks.
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@atomicpoet I made a similar comment a while back. It's one of the things that makes Mastodon better imho.
https://mastodon.social/@tuckerteague/109410848797847195
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@bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot I'm sure that's not what a lot of folks intend to mean, but I see a lot saying things like, "You know, when you just like a post it's meaningless, you need to boost it," and I think meaningless??
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@guilevi@dragonscave.space I was on Twitter for years and never even knew about image descriptions until I came to Mastodon. Once here, I learned about I almost immediately.
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@lolennui@mstdn.social It wasn't until I started raising my own pop tarts that I really understood where they came from. But now I can't eat them.