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Otter-man | 4 months ago

Surprisingly it does show these posts on your "Likes" page in your profile. But they aren't marked as liked, and liking one will increase the like indicator.

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lcnPylGDnU4H9OF|4 months ago

> But they aren't marked as liked, and liking one will increase the like indicator.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eventual_consistency

In addition to "optimistic UI". https://imhoff.blog/posts/optimistic-ui-primer

The UI optimistically allows the user to tap/click the like button and the eventually-consistent backend determines if the like is valid. The UI doesn't verify if the user is allowed to like because that's the backend's job.

Tom Scott has a video on it. https://youtube.com/watch?v=RY_2gElt3SA

Otter-man|4 months ago

this explains so much, thank you!