times up! correct answer: 6,230,855,445 congratulations to @mackuba.eu with the guess of "5.5 gigalikes" which the judges agreed was equal to 5.5 billion and also for being responsible for the first recorded usage of the word "gigalikes" on Bluesky
It's really close if you assume a gigalike is 2^30 likes (in the same way a gigabyte is 2^30 bits, not 10^9 bits). Then 5.5 gigalikes would be 5,905,580,32 likes.
It's an interesting fact that bsky does more likes in a day (5.8GiL) than AO3 has done in its entire history (2.0GiL) prior to when they had to re-index their database to not use i32 primary keys.
Ah, sorry, AO3 has 2.0GiBookmarks, not GiLikes, I'm not actually sure if AO3 has likes vs bookmarks.
is that more or less than a Turbolike