Absolutely adorable that Mastodon started this reaction thing :)
@brandon Oh that's great! Is it only for those announcements?
@Matter I *think* so. I haven't seen it anywhere else. I'd be afraid of it being introduced somewhere else though, like statuses. Can see many many avenues for legitimate and perceived abuse.
@brandon Why would it introduce more abuse than favourites? I really like the idea, it's hard to know what it means to favourite a status
potentially offensive
@Matter I can imagine someone using *certain* emojis in combination as a reaction to a post they either didn't like, or found inflammatory.
I can't think of anything specific but of course I can't because luckily haven't faced that sort of abuse in the past
@brandon Hmmm. Maybe limit it to a subgroup of emojis then?
I would be interested in how this would be implemented though. A special sort of Status?
@strypey @Matter I think that limiting it to a subsection of emojis would be sufficient to quell most of the potential for abuse. At that point it would just be edge cases to be worried about but can't just protect people from receiving a middle finger :P
For how it might work, a special sort of poll seems to be adequate, but leaves little room for freedom of choice on the viewer's end and forces creativity on the tooter's end.
@ssokolow @strypey @Matter I like that mindset