The favorite and boost counts of posts from other instances don’t seem to be accurate when viewed from my end. It’s almost always only a fraction to what’s shown when viewed by the permalink (on that instance)
I’m sure it’s common here but I’m always intrigued as to why it’s like that 🤔
cc #JohnMastodon, got any idea?
@wongmjane my guess last night was that it was a way of coping with so much activity without collapsing the whole #fediverse. It doesn’t seem to happen all the time, just when traffic is high? But I’m just guessing.
@IPEdmonton @wongmjane This is my guess too.
#Mastodon and #ActivityPub have shown themselves to have scalability issues, overloading servers, and I believe I heard somewhere that the server will prioritize processing different messages.
If a server was running out of resources, it might prioritize posting ahead of sending out boost and like notifications since they will be considered more real-time critical.
I wonder if those favorite and boost counts will show up over time, as servers work to catch up on their task lists.
