Posts do not often get many likes on Friendica. However there could be a new issue with them right now on the instance.

Ah. Now I see. I just tried to look at some mastodon feeds. And mastodon have the following actions for each post: Reply, Boost, Favorite, Bookmark and "more". So no likes. Would be nice if there was some kind of standard interactions.. or maybe I am just too used to the "old" way of social media. 😀