Several thousand, yea. That many, unlikely in a single batch. Favouriting and boosting are actions that amplify how far a Mastodon post is going to spread on a

Several thousand, yea. That many, unlikely in a single batch. Favouriting and boosting are actions that amplify how far a Mastodon post is going to spread on a “connected instances” spectrum. But for popular accounts (15k followers as in this case) will definitely spread the link to thousands of instances instantly and cause thousands of individual GET requests. It’s fun to tail access.log and see it happen in real time.