joriki, 10 months ago

@jerry

some mastodon clients will do that

thanius, 10 months ago

@jerry I've noticed that I seldom autoboost just because I can't see the boostcount outside of my own instance. So even if Mastodon was to implement the counts like the way you describe, I hope I can turn the feature off for my own health.

nexus, 10 months ago

@jerry
I see usually extern likes from eg Mastodon, Akkoma etc., but as far as I can see, likes given in Firefish don't seem to show up on Mastodon (web interface).

jerry, 10 months ago

@nexus correct. Likes don’t federate across instances, so it’s usually only accurate on the home instance of the post

flavia_feijo_epi, 10 months ago

@jerry @nexus

Thanks! I was wondering about it, without understanding.

bhawthorne, 10 months ago

@jerry I see the counts on infosec.exchange when I am using the Mona app.

jerry, 10 months ago

@bhawthorne yeah, it’s a front end thing that the mastodon web interface doesn’t implement.

ticho, 10 months ago

@jerry @bhawthorne If I recall correctly, this is on purpose, to reduce "point whoring" - that is, making clickbait content just for the sake of getting the numbers to go up.

In my opinion, those numbers (stars and boosts) should only be visible to the post author, if even that.

lfisk, 10 months ago

@jerry @bhawthorne
It shows some counts if you click or select a post. Screenshot from infosec using the Glitch theme. Or maybe I misunderstand something here🤔​

jerry, 10 months ago

@lfisk @bhawthorne in firefish, and in some mastodon mobile apps, the reply, boost, and like count are shown in the timeline without having to click on a post to see them.

lfisk, 10 months ago

@jerry @bhawthorne That would be nice👍​ Pretty sure latest Tusky app for Android has this too...

r000t, 10 months ago

@jerry
I've seen glitch installs that do this but I can't figure out how to turn it on, and I can't find the patch.