BeAware@lynnskyi there's some nuance to this.
Favorites are only federated between the original instance and the instance that has the user that favorited it. Therefore people on your instance can see favorites on a specific post from users within your instance, but everyone on other instances will see different favorite statistics for the same post based on the favorites from their instance.
I hope that makes sense and clears it up further.
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