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   Annika Backstrom (annika@xoxo.zone)'s status on Saturday, 14-Oct-2023 00:07:34 JST Annika Backstrom

   The "faves on mastodon do nothing" posts are so annoying, not least of all because they are wrong. It's true that faves don't federate to all servers that saw the post, but faves are weighted the same as boosts in the trending posts feed.

   When Trends are used, favouriting a post increases its visibility to the rest of your server, as well as others on the original server.

   https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/82beeb2f7ec0eb07a1bdc688d827ef1db5a3427d/app/models/trends/statuses.rb#L115

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     Annika Backstrom (annika@xoxo.zone)'s status on Saturday, 14-Oct-2023 00:09:28 JST Annika Backstrom

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     • 𒀭𒂗𒆠 ENKI ][e

     @enkiv2 yeah, Explore > Posts for vanilla Mastodon

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     𒀭𒂗𒆠 ENKI ][e (enkiv2@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 14-Oct-2023 00:09:29 JST 𒀭𒂗𒆠 ENKI ][e

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     @annika

     mastodon has trends?

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     Annika Backstrom (annika@xoxo.zone)'s status on Saturday, 14-Oct-2023 00:12:14 JST Annika Backstrom

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     • 𒀭𒂗𒆠 ENKI ][e

     @enkiv2 Not sure, I look at it daily and usually see some cool stuff (it's just whatever is most heavily boosted and faved in our collective timeline)

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     𒀭𒂗𒆠 ENKI ][e (enkiv2@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 14-Oct-2023 00:12:15 JST 𒀭𒂗𒆠 ENKI ][e

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     @annika

     huh. i heard people talking about maybe implementing something like that a couple years ago, but i thought it was dropped since it never seemed to show up

     is it a heavily-used feature?