Anybody know what the ‘phantom boost’ situation is on Mastodon? I’m seeing phantom boosts showing up for any/most posts federated from specific servers — a 1 to the boost counter with no actual boosts listed, and those boosts are not visible on the originating server. Is this a quirk of federation, or some Mastodon fork interop thing or something?
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Steve Troughton-Smith (stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 29-Mar-2024 03:39:07 JST Steve Troughton-Smith -
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Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 29-Mar-2024 03:39:07 JST Eugen Rochko @stroughtonsmith People can set boosts to followers-only. Then you can't see them.
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Steve Troughton-Smith (stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 29-Mar-2024 03:39:50 JST Steve Troughton-Smith @Gargron that's not what's happening here — this is showing for every post for people who don’t do it intentionally
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