Lauren Weinstein on Nostr: There appears to be a longstanding bug in #Mastodon relating to the displayed count ...
There appears to be a longstanding bug in #Mastodon relating to the displayed count of favorites and boosts. After the counts reach some fairly high level (300? 400?) the displayed counts reset to zero and start incrementing again from there. If you actually click on a post you'll see the true full counts, but as displayed in timelines you don't. This has been the case going back as far as I can remember with Mastodon as displayed by a browser at least.
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