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Favorites bug in some servers other than Mastodon.social (programming.dev)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/mastodon@lemmy.ml
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I tried to migrate from mastodon.social to vivaldi for the 1000+ character limit. I found out that it doesn't display favorites from accounts that aren't on vivaldi. I made an account on toot.cat and the same thing happened. Also I can't see the trending section in my toot.cat account. Isn't mastodon supposed to show faves from all servers? Why is this happening?

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[–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's just how it is. You can only see favs if the post is on your instance, or if the fav is from your server. A fav from a remote instance to another remote instance is not known to your instance.

It's the same on mastodon.social but not as noticeable because it's so big

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I don't feel like looking up the issue on GitHub, but Gargon once explained that he doesn't want to change this mechanism, as otherwise instances would falsify non-existent likes and thus manipulate the system.

    The actual likes are therefore only visible on the instance from which the post originated, as every like is transferred to this instance.

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