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@stefano @daisE@sfba.social ok, here what appeared to me tonight so far:

1. without javascript I find no way to see who did favorite a post
2. with javascript it looks like my own favorite isn't counted for the part below the post (only shown with javascript) at first (but maybe later after a reload?)
3. littlefedi "unlisted" post are not showing up on the profile view (showing all activity) on mastodon - normaly unlisted on mastodon means they are not in timelines, but still able to visit on the profile page. On littelfedi it looks like it behaves more like "followers" and is not visible to anyone not following? Or on the same instance (can't test that)? Anyway, I guess "unlisted" should only exclude timelines but be viewable via mastodon on the personal profile page.
4. I don't see a button or anything to skip a post I started. If I click reply and decide afterwards not to, I don't know how to close the reply section...
5.a "Delete and re-draft" starts the question if i really like to do it twice.
5.b the original author of the thread, even deleted before, gets added.
5.c another try with deleting the original thread author leads to "request failed"
5.d a browser reload to skip leads to a browser error: "405 Method Not Allowed"
5.e a retry stays with the same error
5.f going back in the browser history till a proper result and forward again lags very long with still no result after several minutes
5.g going back to the littlefedi home and reloading that works again but shows the deleted(!) posts but skipped from their original place as standalone posts.
5.h there is no way to get easily back where those re-drafts should be or place them directly where they should belong.
5.i the should be deleted "public"(!) posts are shown on littlefedi "home" and profile three times, but only counted as one on the profile...
5.j ...but is even none at the profile visited from mastodon. Where those public marked but re-drafted posts are not shown at all.
6. same as 5.a Deleting posts asking the question if i really like to do it twice.

(All on firefox with javascript after point 2.)

Reactions from littlefedi on a sharkey post are working fine on littlefedi and sharkey, but a reaction from sharkey on a sharkey post is not shown on littlefedi..

I hope this helps. Maybe I can test more tomorrow night. Have a nice day and thank you already for this wonderful vision of littlefedi...

@fasnix
yes, I love ebooks too, but for other reasons.

• The first one is of course that reading as fast as do, I would have to constantly transport loads of books (which is what I was doing when I was younger and I don't feel like going back to that).
• The second is the storage. Even having switched a while a go, I still had to get rid of thousands of books when I downsized recently.
• But the main one is probably that my sight is not what it used to be, so being able to get a bigger font is a real bonus.
• Another nice side feature of ebooks is the build-in dictionary. As I read in plenty of languages, having a dictionary at my fingertips is really nice.

I documented the process to create dictionaries for various ereaders here:
https://francois.thunus.org/dicos.htm
the ereader page is here:
https://francois.thunus.org/readers.htm

@daisy Thanks a lot for testing this so thoroughly - this is really useful.

What you are seeing is broadly expected from the current federation landscape. littleFedi keeps favourites and emoji reactions as two distinct interactions. A favourite is sent as a standard ActivityPub Like, while an emoji reaction is sent as EmojiReact, which is supported by software such as Akkoma/Pleroma and Sharkey but not by Mastodon.

Sharkey takes a different compatibility approach: when reacting to a Mastodon post, it can make that reaction appear as a favourite on Mastodon. That is convenient for visibility, but it also means that reactions such as 😂 or 😮 become indistinguishable from an actual favourite. I think keeping the two separate is cleaner, even if reactions are invisible on services that do not support them.

The mismatch between the favourite count shown on the post and the count in the interaction details does sound like something worth investigating; those numbers should agree. The favourite from littleFedi to Mastodon should also be a standard Like, so it should normally appear on
Mastodon - I will look into that separately.

And yes, testing a littlefedi reaction on a Sharkey post would be especially helpful when you get the chance.

@stefano Just in case you are interested, I started to test the reactions between littlefedi, mastodon and sharkey. It looks like...
- a favorite from littlefedi on my mastodon toot doesn't show up in any form on mastodon and get confused on littlefedi with showing 3 favs at the toot but 4 favs in the section below the toot..
- a reaction from littlefedi on my mastodon toot doesn't show up in any form on sharkey or mastodon.
- a reaction from sharkey on my mastodon toot shows up as favorite on littlefedi and on mastodon.
- a reaction from sharkey on a littlefedi post shows up on littlefedi as the intended reaction, but doesn't show up in any form on mastodon.

I actually like the behaviour of sharkey counting a reaction on a mastodon toot as a favorite on mastodon.

But I think maybe it's cleaner to keep the reactions separate from the favorites even meaning they get lost on fediverse services which still not supporting reactions.

Couldn't test a reaction from littlefedi on a sharkey post yet...