A client treating every reaction, or all non minus reactions as a like is doing a disservice to their users.
IMHO NIP-25 is wrong in the assessment of what is a like and dislike and contributes to the sentiment that drove the anti-reaction (dubbed only zaps) mode in damus. Its literally all characters and shortcode emojis other than the minus symbol as an upvote, diluting the usage of emojis when clients adhere to that.
Emojis are up to interpretation by the viewer and may not always be interpreted to mean what the originating poster intended. This is just the nature of symbols, culture and context.
If you want to tally or have a view of liked content based on reactions, then Id recommend sticking to one character to convey that (content = +). Otherwise the reactions are simply expressions.
Vic
npub1yx…p7kza
2024-09-09 18:17:02
in reply to nevent1q…hd3s
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npub1yx6pjypd4r7qh2gysjhvjd9l2km6hnm4amdnjyjw3467fy05rf0qfp7kzaPublished at
2024-09-09 18:17:02Event JSON
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