I just noticed firefish (running on Infosec.town and fedia.social) shows the number of replies and likes for posts in the timeline - that’s pretty neat. (And yes, I’m aware the counts are probably incomplete for posts not originating from someone on the same instance)
@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.
