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   Eli Wallach's favorite Bass (voxofgod@jorts.horse)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jul-2024 06:04:32 JST Eli Wallach's favorite Bass

   A lot of times I will see a banger toot that someone I follow has re-tooted

   With like 10 trillion boosts and not a single like

   I favestsr that

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     BeAware :fediverse: (beaware@social.beaware.live)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jul-2024 06:04:32 JST BeAware :fediverse:

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     @voxofgod you know that Favorites are only federated between the "liker's" instance and the "OP's" instance, right?🤔

     They're not very useful in my opinion...😬

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     BeAware :fediverse: (beaware@social.beaware.live)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jul-2024 06:15:00 JST BeAware :fediverse:

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     @voxofgod yep, thats why. Next time you see a "decent" number of boosts on a post and no likes, click the "..." And either "Open original page" or "copy link to post" and open it in a browser, I bet you'll see a significant amount of likes.

     I use it as a sort of "I read this, but it might not be noteworthy enough to push to my followers". Then if I really want to "remember to go back to this" I use the bookmark feature.

     However, likes don't do anything *for* the popularity of the post per se, unless you're on a bigger instance in which a lot of likes could originate from. In that case, they're used to populate the "trending posts" feature of Mastodon for that instance only.

     Thankfully though, not many people care about post popularity here as far as I can tell.

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     Eli Wallach's favorite Bass (voxofgod@jorts.horse)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jul-2024 06:15:01 JST Eli Wallach's favorite Bass

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     • BeAware :fediverse:

     @BeAware so that's why I only see boosts and no likes?

     it's for a cpl things for me...

     It's the only way I know to note things besides bookmark, which I use more sparingly

     It also is a quick h/t that's a different vibe from boost