@manton Since you brought up the question of favorites and follow notices, I'll reply with my own perspective.

• Follow notices are mostly noise, and good riddance to them! Every so often, however, I get a notification of a name that means something to me. A friend, colleague or someone I admire.
• Likewise, follow counts are noise. Period. Full stop. Glad to see you don't support those.
• However, reblogs are great and I miss them from micro.blog. I follow a few mastodon accounts solely because they reblog great things.
• It should be relatively straightforward to generate a discover feed based on likes, reblogs and replies, if you were so inclined.

I understand and respect these points may not fit with MB's overall philosophy.