One bit of Mastodon internals I don't understand: how does the software determine the "favourite" and "boost" counts for remote statuses? Are the values in `status_stats` ever refreshed from the remote?
@annika from what I understand is that it just gets the counts wrong. That’s been my experience comparing the same post accessed from two accounts I have on different servers.
@b_cavello After some chats, I think the counts are based on observable local and federated behaviour rather than asking the remote server for canonical counts, which explains why different servers show different numbers