So far my main annoyance with Mastodon is that the replies / boosts / favorites counts in my Home timeline are completely wrong. I usually just see 0/0/0 and only get the real data when viewing the post on its home instance.
Is there a way to fix that? That seems like a very basic thing to be broken..
@delroth It's kinda on purpose, I think?
On one hand, if you accepted numbers from other instances and summed them up:
a) anyinstance could inflate any number sky-high (so _some_ instance somewhere would probably be doing such things to troll, because that doesn't seem subjectively as spammy as posts),
b) you'd need to somehow synchronize things; activitypub is already bad at synchronizing whether X follows Y between their homeservers, so this would be in practice perpetually slightly borked (that said, boosts _are_ propagated to the original instance, so propagating count changes in the other direction would in principle work).
On the other hand, this seems to be "societal engineering by lack of feature", similar to the claimed reason behind lack of quote replies in vanilla mastodon.
