I love #amethyst but this is fakenews. There is an amethyst server: counter.amethyst.social and it's used to gather a per note view count:
With enough effort, it can definitely be DDOSed 😝
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Sure. It won't show the count in the post. But everything else remains the same. The count is just the bait.
I quoted the wrong note, should have been this:
Fun fact: I actually noticed this because at some point the view count broke for me and it turns out it was my pihole that had a blocking regex for "counter" (which is very common for trackers).