Why do certain instances overreport boosts and likes by five or six?
@realcaseyrollins What instances?
@dave @realcaseyrollins I have no explanation for that. If you click the number, what does it show? The counter in the UI should be based on real boosts reported.
@alex @dave The post showed 5 boosts when nobody boosted it.
https://gameliberty.club/@realcaseyrollins/103932817916400271
@realcaseyrollins @dave Waiting to receive my confirmation email from gameliberty.club so I can have a look
@realcaseyrollins @dave I still don't know why it's happening, but I believe it may be related to gameliberty.club. The status data is here: https://gameliberty.club/api/v1/statuses/103932789824611847
You can indeed see `reblog_count: 5`. This means 5 is reported by the database of gameliberty.club. However, it doesn't seem like this number of being reported by us through the API or through federation.
From my understanding only a status itself is federated to other servers. The statistics are a separate object and don't get federated. Each server tracks its own statistics for each post.
Maybe the server is being spammed, or there's some other bug happening.
@realcaseyrollins Well my first guess was the instances were doing it for clout (to seem more active than they actually are), but I doubt @alex would have anything like that installed, so it's almost certainly just some ancient glitch.