Long ago Mastodon made the design decision to send likes just to the author of the post (and GoToSocial decided to copy that behaviour); and meanwhile Pleroma and Misskey made the decision to send emoji reacts to ~the same audience of the post
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Long ago Mastodon made the design decision to send likes just to the author of the post (and GoToSocial decided to copy that behaviour); and meanwhile Pleroma and Misskey made the decision to send emoji reacts to ~the same audience of the post
Anyway a side effect of this is that when scrolling through my timeline I see likes and reactions on other people’s posts by my Pleroma/Akkoma/Misskey/Sharkey/Iceshrimp/etc using friends (and only them), and feel (tangibly) more digitally connected with them
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@erincandescent FYI, we recently merged some changes around this to try to improve the situation: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/32620
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One side effect of this that I think is kind of interesting is that in many ways I prefer this model to a globally consistent view (ala Twitter or Bluesky), because it inherently prioritises the views of people I care about.
(Of course you can start from having the global dataset and filter down. )
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@renchap Having (more) accurate numbers everywhere is of course probably going to be good, but there’s something to be said about hvaing your friends’ avatars showing up under posts.
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Latte macchiato :blobcoffee: :ablobcat_longlong:replied to Erin 💽✨ last edited by
@[email protected] I just really wonder how Mastodon hopes to get a somewhat usable Explore tab while missing all the actually relevant data for it.
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Erin 💽✨replied to Latte macchiato :blobcoffee: :ablobcat_longlong: last edited by
@privateger I wonder if they plan to do this through FASPs…
