@lianna@eviloatmeal I feel like that's always the big flipper, because the simple approach that most users take is: not self-hosting and just registering in some generic mastodon instance
complaining about fedi culture a bit, i guess@kitten ngl i just. don't like emoji reactions and im tempted to make a chuckya patch to convert reactions to favorites on a per user basis (some of my instance users wanted reactions, but i dont myself). like just favorite my post, don't react with some ugly ass stretched pregnant neocat wrench heart emote. what the fuck is that supposed to mean? how do i interpret that? just use a favorite!
re: complaining about fedi culture a bit, i guess@pearl@kitten thatโs just a sharkey thing i think. they donโt have favorites at all, only emoji reactions. if they do the โค๏ธ emoji reaction it gets converted to favorite when federating to Akkoma (and chuckya?), but anything else stays as is including emoji that the user sets as the default โlikeโ emoji reaction for themself. but โค๏ธ (or even โญ) is still not the same as a favorite, and since no emoji reaction is able to express the full range of what a favorite can say, sharkey users would often feel the need to use a variety of them, and develop a taste for it (usually bad taste as you can see)
@kitten I disagree: You can reply and react to a reply, but not to a reaction, so if you want to facilitate further interaction, a reply is actually much better.