EmojiReact vs. Like w/ content?

Hm... FEP-c0e0: Emoji reactions details two ways to federate an Emoji reaction:

1. EmojiReact activity
2. Like with content (as opposed to a regular Like, which has no content)

In testing, I noticed that misskey (or at least, the site I was testing with, birb.space) sends the latter. I don't know what sends the former, and if NodeBB were to start federating out EmojiReact, would it be broadly understood?

Perhaps I should federate out both at once.

cc @silverpill@mitra.social

EmojiReact is used by Pleroma.

Idk about others, I started with EmojiReact but then switched to Like - Mastodon users can see a "favorite" that way.

@silverpill @julian Like at least has got the advantage to use the existing vocabulary. At Friendica we currently process both but we can't send - exactly because of the problem that we're still undecided which way to go.

A problem is that you could send a negative emoji - that would be received as a like (which is normally interpretet as positive) for example on Mastodon. And this can be confusing.

@heluecht

inaccurate representation vs lost signal

I think the former is better for the majority of users. You can also make it an admin setting or even an account setting.

@liaizon

@silverpill@mitra.social lost signal only if the UX for both emoji reactions and likes are collapsed.

Otherwise, right signal for the right intent?

@julian Regular users don't know what software supports reactions and what software is installed on a remote server. They click on an emoji but the reaction never reaches the other side.

@heluecht @liaizon