What causes “likes” to disappear from a post? Seems to fluctuate greatly. I saw a post from Jack yesterday that had 20 likes at one point, 13 a little later, then it ticked up to like 18, and now it’s back to 1 when I look at it.
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I don’t know how any of this works tbh but my uninformed hypothesis is that it has something to do with all this data just being relayed around as opposed to stored in a central database
Yea I’m in the same boat, just make educates guesses lol. Makes sense though. Just seems like they don’t really mean much if they disappear willy nilly.
it’s usually just slow relays under heavy load. Could also be relay operators deleting events🤷♂️
That’s what I wondered, if relays are deleting them. Makes them fairly useless if that’s the case.
No not really. You could have relays that facilitates “one week of data” and then deletes it. That would make it possible to facilitate short term conversations. If you want a Twitter like experience however, you’d need to find reliable relays to connect to or host your own
Needs to be consistent or it’s a useless metric for post engagement.
