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[–] snooggums@midwest.social 6 points 11 months ago

What's worse than a toast? No feedback at all.

So if you don't have time to design or build a better feedback mechanism, a toast is better than nothing.

This is what really drives home the article as a great advice. Toasting is a bad implementation of something that is necessary, feedback of a successful action.