Previously i had written a masto patch to use favorite/boost counts from remote instances so that you would actually see the real* values instead of fedi appearing like a lonely and desolate place. that got merged, but it wasn't working bc ruby is a weird language. so fixed that, and if you're running anything downstream of mastodon nightly (like glitch) it should work now: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/34594
towards a fedi where you can see what's going on (when you should be able to)