"you should infer that a favourite is support and not an actual favourite" - person who just blocked me for gently being reminded to not favourite posts about my suicidal tendencies
why should i do anything? why can't you do something else instead? how is that "trying to spread love"? i fucking hate mastodon, man
i cannot fathom at all the doublespeak that social media has infested in other people such that the terms and iconography:
- star
- like
- favourite
have no meaning at all rooted in their appearance or original idiom, but instead are used as a rat cage instant gratification such that i am deemed persona non grata for saying "please don't favourite my negative posts"
make it make sense. you cannot. you lied to yourself for years.
"everybody uses it this way" is not the gotcha you think it is
"but it's not a like on my platform, it's labelled favourite instead"
- that makes no difference in meaning
- i'm gonna make a fork of mastodon where instead of a star it's a poop emoji and i'm going to start pooping on all of your posts
