erincandescent on Nostr: Long ago Mastodon made the design decision to send likes just to the author of the ...

Long ago Mastodon made the design decision to send likes just to the author of the post (and GoToSocial decided to copy that behaviour); and meanwhile Pleroma and Misskey made the decision to send emoji reacts to ~the same audience of the post

Anyway a side effect of this is that when scrolling through my timeline I see likes and reactions on other people’s posts by my Pleroma/Akkoma/Misskey/Sharkey/Iceshrimp/etc using friends (and only them), and feel (tangibly) more digitally connected with them