Show full reaction counts on remote posts

[moyitpro]

Steps to reproduce the problem

Viewing the same remote post I reacted from my local instance to with the remote one on the original instance where the post resides, the reaction counts are different. Also, some reactions that are on the original post are missing.

Expected behaviour

Reaction counts should match remotely and locally

Actual behaviour

Viewing the post remotely missing reactions and different counts

Detailed description

Source: https://urusai.social/@pikestaff/109846321571765672

Specifications

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/15.6.1 Safari/605.1.15

[deanveloper]

Unfortunately, I think this is behaving as intended (for now...). I need to figure out if there's a better way to do this.

The same issue happens with favourite counts, so I think for now this is "standard" mastodon behavior. I'll leave this open anyway since it'd be great to have a solution for this.

[neatchee]

This is definitely a question of how Mastodon works under the hood. Reactions only show locally when dealing with remote posts, because otherwise it would need to constantly reach out to the originating server and check for updates to the reactions. Post edits, on the other hand, I believe push changes to servers that have grabbed the post already? I wonder if editing a post would also update the reaction and favorite counts...

Renaming and changing from bug to feature request