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?

  • NakamuraEmi_bias@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Usually it appears that way (like I was surprised some posts had 0 likes/favourites), but when I click on the post or go to the original source - it shows a higher number.

    I just assumed that instances don’t automatically gather likes as readily as boosts.