i have a feeling that im seeing favorites wrong in mastodon. most of others' posts dont have favorites or have 1-3. its especially weird to see in the "trending" tab in pachli. tho this issue is not only in pachli, but in #mastodon web too. so it may be instance-related or globally mastodon

@ralen for whatever reason many people on fedi just don't favourite posts

@soop @ralen they don’t federate properly sometimes, try viewing the post on the original instance

@pinkcreeper100 @soop im not going to change my instance to see more favorites

@ralen @soop i never said that,

click the triple dot button on the post, then click “open original page”

@pinkcreeper100 @soop and this
@selea why i see only 138 boosts and 1 favorite on my instance? looks like social.treehouse.systems and social.linux.pizza have the same system, without emoji reactions. just favorites and boosts

@ralen @soop @selea like i said, it’s due to how the favourite activities federate, your instance probably blocks some that social.treehouse.systems doesn’t, or vice versa

@pinkcreeper100 @selea @soop im not sure how it works, i thought instances should see as much posts, stats and users as possible because of connection between the instances or something like that

@ralen @pinkcreeper100 @selea @soop favorites *don't* federate besides between the original instance and the instance that does the favoriting. The only way to see the true count is to go to their instance.

It's designed like that purposefully.

@BeAware @pinkcreeper100 @selea @soop whats the purpose of hiding true statistics?

@ralen @pinkcreeper100 @selea @soop hiding? Nobody's hiding anything....it's because of the way Fediverse works between instances and the way the trending feature works, if the count showed *every* favorite, trending wouldn't matter because they'd show trending posts from servers that you don't even interact with.

It'd be so annoying to see posts that nobody on your instance interacted with, on the trending screen...