A couple of PSAs that new users may find useful:

- Faving toots does nothing, your followers (and local timeline) will only see things you boost
- Following people from other instances ensures you can see their toots in the future and that they'll show up on your instance's federated timeline

(Obviously, faving as a thumbs up at the person who tooted is fine and works, but people are used to Twitter where their "likes" will promote tweets into other people's timelines)

@brunodias Favorites showing up in timelines is a very recently added "feature." One thing here is that there is no way to look at your past list of favorites. Maybe that will actually encourage boosts, since that is really the only way of having a long-term record that you interacted with a toot.