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It took a long time for me to realise that how much activity you see associated with a post (replies, boosts, likes) varies depending on the instance you are on. Really striking example: same post viewed from here and from fosstodon.

Please don’t reply to explain it to me. I know why. Just showing an example.

You Jesse Skinner @JesseSkinner@toot.cafe Boost this toot if you're planning on sticking around Mastodon & the Fediverse whether or not it's more popular than Bluesky. Replies 3 Boosts 27 Likes 0
Dorothy Bishop &J Jesse Skinner & 7h @JesseSkinner@toot.cafe Boost this toot if you're planning on sticking around Mastodon whether or not it's more popular than Bluesky. Replies 77 Boosts 890 Likes 12
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El Duvelle
El Duvelle
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Can I reply just to mention that @jonny created a #FetchAllReplies code that allows you to see all replies from any server, and he also made one to get the accurate boost & fav count! Fetch all replies is ready & working on our server, just waiting to be reviewed by the main Mastodon team :) and the boost count will be part of the upcoming Mastodon update!!

(Check the hashtag for more info but this post summarizes it: neuromatch.social/@jonny/11335…)

(edited for more accurate info)

jonny (good kind) (@jonny@neuromatch.social)

Here's backfilling posts from profiles on the first time someone on your instance follows them, i'm trying to sneak up and close issue number 34 , which has been open since 2016. wish me luck: https://github.
Neuromatch Social
#fetchallreplies @jonny (good kind)
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jonny (good kind)
jonny (good kind)
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@elduvelle

Yep! The counts PR is already merged upstream so you should see that on next update, fetch all replies is next.

@El Duvelle
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Dan Goodman
Dan Goodman
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@jonny @elduvelle is it working? I see 186 boosts on that post here and 2.9K on toot.cafe. maybe it just gets updated but on a queue?
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jonny (good kind)
jonny (good kind)
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no we haven't deployed it yet and i also need to update fetch all replies to fetch the root post as well (otherwise all the posts in the tree except the root will have accurate counts, which i think is sort of funny), will do that as soon as i have a second
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Albert Cardona
Albert Cardona
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@elduvelle @jonny Illustrating the problem: I had not seen your reply (from 10 hours ago!) when I wrote mine a few minutes ago.
@jonny (good kind) @El Duvelle
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