I saw a post on here the other day that had 1 like and two boosts and the author replied to themselves saying "so this is what it's like have a viral post." Confused, I decided to open the post in a browser where I'm not signed in. Apparently, the post ACTUALLY had over 1,200 boosts.
I feel like this is something the #Mastodon folks should probably fix at some point. I mean, fix the racism stuff first. But then fix this.