@curewho it’s a quirk of how federation works mostly — unless you’re looking at the post from the instance it originated on, your instance can only tell you about the faves/boosts it knows about so its not unusual for those numbers to be inaccurate. & since when you leave a fave it only notifies the original poster(‘s instance) while a boost notifies all your followers(‘s instances) faves tend to be *dramatic* undercounts in the way boost numbers are not

but also i have mutuals who fave tons of posts and also mutuals who i know read my shit bc they boost/reply but have never once favorited anything so there’s definitely a range of behavior there