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@Claire i feel like it would be interesting to know which links are receiving the most clicks but that might raise privacy questions

you could maybe get close if you counted boosts separately so that, e.g., a post with a link that was boosted five times rates higher than a link that was posted twice. ignoring boosts i think would make the information meaningless

counting would need to prevent spamming by an individual user, so it would actually be more like “number of users for which this link has appeared in their timeline”

considering that, i think it could have some useful applications (like a sort of instance‐local stumbleupon, really), although it also leaves itself open to a situation where, e.g., somebody shares a link to criticize it, it gets a lot of boosts, and suddenly the original link itself is being promoted without the context of the criticism

so some means of moderating that i think would be necessary

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