"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"
"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
make it make sense. you cannot. you lied to yourself for years.