My understanding is that favorites are equivalent to twitter likes, and boosts are equivalent to twitter retweets, but on twitter people like way more then they retweet, so why is it different on mastodon?

  • HornyToad@lemmynsfw.com
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    1 year ago

    Favorites saves them as a favorite. Unless I’m going to want to see that tweet again in the future I don’t generally hit the favorite button.

    If I think it’s entertaining I’ll boost it for other people to see. There’s no algorithm sorting things by engagement, so favoriting doesn’t expand visibilty on boosting does that.

    • ccunning@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Mastodon has a bookmark feature to fulfill this use case.

      You can absolutely use favorites this way too but if you ever want to save a comment without the poster knowing bookmarks are the way.