• JVT038@feddit.nl
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    5 months ago

    Slightly offtopic:

    When I go to the source in my browser, I see that this toot has been boosted roughly 800 times and roughly 1400 favorites.

    However, when I go to this toot via my Mastodon app, I’m seeing 256 boosts and 1 favourite.

    Why is this different in my app vs the fosstodon link to the toot?

    • Chloé 🥕@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      5 months ago

      similar boat here: what I’ve noticed is that, on your instance, ‘foreign’ toots will only show the favourites coming from your instance. So, if 3 people from your instance favourited a toot that has 1500 favs total, you will only see 3 next to the star

      this isn’t true for boosts, and I don’t know what causes the difference there. Its probably something to do with an incomplete federation (either because of blocks or simply because your server isn’t aware of all the others; I’ve noticed that the difference is much larger now that I’m on a smaller instance with less connections), but I’m not sure

      for toots coming from other people on your instance, you will see the full count on both favs and boosts