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17 likes!? ❤️ Is @svelte.dev the most liked package on npmx right now?

This feature seems to be a bit buggy. When I opened the page -> npmx.dev/package/svelte a few minutes ago it showed 20 likes. Then I logged in and liked it -> 21 likes. Then I checked with another browser (no login) -> 17 likes. Then I hard reload all pages in all browsers -> 14 likes. 🤔

@baileytownsend.dev this is what you get for getting the atproto network to try out pre-alpha features

Thinking about this, I also wonder how spam resistant this feature is. E.g. a rogue PDS (or fleet of PDS) sending a few hundred/thousand fake accounts with like records/events out. Of course this is also possible and happening in e.g. GitHub, but maybe at a different scale (relative).

If done right this spam attack will be way below what rate limits enforce and probably also below other automated spam detection mechanisms, as it takes only a comparable very small amount of likes to majorly skew this metric.

IMO ultimately we should leverage the social graph to validate the likes liked by <x> people you follow

That would also be a novel thing which GitHub etc do not offer.

Also small update to OG problem: There is a bit of a lag/cache issue. Liking and removing a like seems to work as advertised at least from the PDS point of view (records get created/removed). But the website "jumps" back and forth showing those likes, e.g. a fresh like gets reset and vice versa.

The red indicator if the like is present on the PDS works correctly, this "jitter" only affects the shown like count. I know it's alpha and just a day old etc :)

This may be a hard problem. Even GitHub has solved this only partially. Their like count always drift from what is shown in the header line of repository (likely heavily cached) compared to the like count shown in the right side bar (able to change when the like count with a like).

Update to the update: It seems this problem got fixed 🎉, I see not "jitter" anymore. Though there was the intermittent problem that my likes did not work anymore (no record written to my PDS). Only after I logged out and logged in again liking/disliking worked again.

Such hard logout behavior may also make it easier to detect problems and bugs, as this should not happen often, obviously.