@feditips should I be boosting posts instead of liking/favoriting them? How do i A) let the author know I had a positive interaction
B) let others know I had a positive interaction
Are replies preferred? Still trying to figure out the cultural norms here.
Favourite a toot if you like it, that lets the author know you liked it.
Boost it if you want to share it with your followers.
Reply if you have something to say to the author or on the topic. (You can set your reply's visibility to mentions only if you want to reply to just the author.)
Boosts have the added advantage that they spread the post to all the servers of all your followers, so the post will become searchable on all your followers' servers too (if it wasn't already).
What is the plan for social.lol federating with threads.net, is it something we're open to (until evidence supports a different decision)? I am really excited to be able to interact with threads users. If you're taking votes, I say let's stay federated @adam
@adam@moose well, the instance rules are pretty clear. Personally I do not use any social media since 2016, this is the first attempt I make in ages. I don't like Meta as a company, but who knows, maybe it's not that bad for the ecosystem as a whole to have this new influx of users... Far as I can tell, most of their userbase (the ones engaging) are Twitter refugees (read: people escaping the toxicity of Elon's crappyverse)
@adam This is a great post, and i think it aligns with my views as well. I think de-federating from a platform just because there are a few bad actors is perpetuating the behavior that drove us to mastodon to begin with. I appreciate the response, and look forward to our continued experiment with threads and omg.lol!