# New on Remark.as: likes **URL:** \ **Category:** Announcements\ **Tags:** remarkas\ **Created:** [September 17, 2024, 10:40pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/new-on-remark-as-likes/13127 "2024-09-17T22:40:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![matt](https://discuss.write.as/user_avatar/discuss.write.as/matt/32/2760_2.png) [@matt](https://discuss.write.as/u/matt)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2024, 10:40pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/new-on-remark-as-likes/13127/1 "2024-09-17T22:40:53Z")
I’ve just made a little change to Remark.as: now you can see _likes_ across the site! This is an experiment, and I’d love to hear everyone’s feedback. ([Fediverse announcement here](https://social.musing.studio/@remark_as/113154979877202957).) ## How it works We’ve [quietly supported “likes”](https://discuss.write.as/t/new-like-function/11973) from the fediverse for a few months now. When a user sees your Write.as post from a fediverse platform like Mastodon, they can _like_ it in their feed, and then you (the author) will see the total number of likes on the Write.as post itself and your Stats page. Previously, this was all private. Now, this makes those numbers more public. But still no one can see who exactly liked a post – only the total number. ## Changes - You’ll see posts in the [Café](https://remark.as/cafe) that have received replies _or_ have at least 1 like. This is meant to inspire conversation on posts you might’ve missed. - You’ll see _likes_ next to the number of replies in your inbox / [Mail](https://remark.as/me/inbox) page. - You’ll see _likes_ on all profile pages of users who have enabled commenting. ## Thoughts? I know this has implications for how much Remark.as becomes like any other social platform, with all its gamification and social comparison. I also know from the feedback I got on [this post](https://writing.exchange/@matt/112050906574329486) that many people prefer to keep these numbers hidden. But I wanted to try this in a small, gradual way, as I’ve come to view “likes” as a helpful morsel of feedback from the internet when people don’t otherwise have something to say. So what do you think, now seeing it live on Remark.as? I appreciate any and all feedback – it’ll directly influence which way we take this going forward. ---
**Author:** ![davepolaschek](https://discuss.write.as/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/51bf81/32.png) [@davepolaschek](https://discuss.write.as/u/davepolaschek)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2024, 2:03am UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/new-on-remark-as-likes/13127/2 "2024-09-18T02:03:06Z")
Getting a 502 for the cafe at remark.as. And things here are majorly slow. Hopefully that’s stuff you’re working on still. ---
**Author:** ![dino](https://discuss.write.as/user_avatar/discuss.write.as/dino/32/645_2.png) [@dino](https://discuss.write.as/u/dino)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2024, 5:48am UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/new-on-remark-as-likes/13127/3 "2024-09-18T05:48:46Z")
Ho ho ho, now the Cafe page is starting to look alive. Question on the giving of “likes”, can it only be given via a site like Mastodon? I only ask because I barely logon over there. Can I not like the post from the page itself? I suppose that’s the next step forward for this likes feature. I do worry about the “likes” feature messing with my writing. There’s the tendency to write to get more likes, instead of simply writing what you really wanted to say. However, the tradeoff it seems, is that this allows good writings to bubble up and have more visibility. At the moment, I think that tradeoff is worthwhile if it means it helps me find good posts on Write.as. ---
**Author:** ![davepolaschek](https://discuss.write.as/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/51bf81/32.png) [@davepolaschek](https://discuss.write.as/u/davepolaschek)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2024, 12:30pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/new-on-remark-as-likes/13127/4 "2024-09-18T12:30:49Z")
The cafe looks good this morning, and I can see the likes on stuff. It all seemed pretty snappy, too. ---
**Author:** ![justinf](https://discuss.write.as/user_avatar/discuss.write.as/justinf/32/1242_2.png) [@justinf](https://discuss.write.as/u/justinf)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2024, 2:09pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/new-on-remark-as-likes/13127/5 "2024-09-28T14:09:25Z")
I could use some clarification on something… If I write an article, then I manually share it on my mastodon account, and that post where I pasted the URL receives a like… then that like appears somewhere on remark.as? ---
**Author:** ![justinf](https://discuss.write.as/user_avatar/discuss.write.as/justinf/32/1242_2.png) [@justinf](https://discuss.write.as/u/justinf)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2024, 2:14pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/new-on-remark-as-likes/13127/6 "2024-09-28T14:14:00Z")
> [@matt](#): > > We’ve [quietly supported “likes”](https://discuss.write.as/t/new-like-function/11973) from the fediverse for a few months now. When a user sees your Write.as post from a fediverse platform like Mastodon, they can _like_ it in their feed, and then you (the author) will see the total number of likes on the Write.as post itself and your Stats page. The problem with this is that articles can still not be filtered, or even paginated. They are listed by view count, and my older articles have way more views, so I can never see if it received likes. ---
**Author:** ![PaoloAmoroso](https://discuss.write.as/user_avatar/discuss.write.as/paoloamoroso/32/1659_2.png) [@PaoloAmoroso](https://discuss.write.as/u/PaoloAmoroso)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2024, 3:38pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/new-on-remark-as-likes/13127/7 "2024-09-28T15:38:11Z")
In my experience the reactions to articles manually shared on Mastodon aren’t reflected on Remark.as. As for checking the likes of recent posts, if you open them by accessing the blog while signed into your Write.as account, the like count is reported along with the other links such as for editing and deleting the post. To get this information visit a post directly via a URL like this: ```auto https://write.as/username/slug ``` where `username` is your Write.as username and `slug` the slug of the post’s URL. ---
**Author:** ![matt](https://discuss.write.as/user_avatar/discuss.write.as/matt/32/2760_2.png) [@matt](https://discuss.write.as/u/matt)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2024, 10:27pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/new-on-remark-as-likes/13127/8 "2024-09-28T22:27:03Z")
Thanks for the feedback! Yes, I don’t want “likes” to get in the way of writing, which is why I’m hoping this is a more thoughtful approach – keeping it only to certain areas of the site, instead of plastering it on every page. > [@dino](#): > > Question on the giving of “likes”, can it only be given via a site like Mastodon? I only ask because I barely logon over there. Can I not like the post from the page itself? I suppose that’s the next step forward for this likes feature. Right now, this is the only way to send a like, yes. I definitely plan to add a “like” button on Remark.as and / or blogs themselves (for those who want it), to help more people give their feedback. ---
**Author:** ![matt](https://discuss.write.as/user_avatar/discuss.write.as/matt/32/2760_2.png) [@matt](https://discuss.write.as/u/matt)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2024, 10:31pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/new-on-remark-as-likes/13127/9 "2024-09-28T22:31:41Z")
That might be out of scope (and potentially not possible) for us… Write.as blog posts and Mastodon posts are separate ActivityPub objects. So a like on a Mastodon post goes to the Mastodon post itself, and the like on a Write.as post goes to Write.as. To get likes from the fediverse, the best way is to follow your blog from your Mastodon account, then “boost” it from that account. That way any direct reactions will show up on the Write.as post. I know they don’t show up the best on Mastodon – no introduction or commentary, just a title. But this is something we’re working with the wider fediverse on, and I hope we can see better support for in the future. ---
**Author:** ![the-casual-critic](https://discuss.write.as/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@the-casual-critic](https://discuss.write.as/u/the-casual-critic)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2026, 9:48pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/new-on-remark-as-likes/13127/10 "2026-01-13T21:48:59Z")
Ah, this explains why I could never for the life of me work out how Likes worked. Am I right to think that not all Mastodon Likes are created equal though. I haven’t figured out how to post directly into a Mastodon feed from this site so I usually copy a link to my most recent blogs manually into a Mastodon post. But on a recent ‘toot’ that garnered 6 likes/favourites, one of them suddenly translated to a Like registered here. Is it possible this happened because one of the people who liked it on Mastodon is anoter Write.as user?