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Alex Sweeney
@alexjs.dev

@bad-example.com I want to experiment with constellation but I don't think I fully understand what a backlink is or the syntax of the `source` param. In this example, it's returning 16 likes on a post right? What is the `:subject.uri` for?

fig (aka:[phil])
@bad-example.com

right! the “source” locates the actual like link from all the way *into* the like itself here’s a like: pdsls.dev/at://did:plc... :subject.uri says to look at the subject in that record content, and the uri inside that, to find the link

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fig (aka:[phil])
@bad-example.com

for likes it’s kind of obvious which link you probably mean, but even in that example there’s a separate “via” link in the like record so the “record path” after the : specifies exactly which source of link you want