This post was where I learned about the hovering trick. And I'm almost exclusively on desktop; just had never held my mouse over the sats total.

Not sure this would change my behavior. I still tend to operate from the "this is something I want to say" or "this is a cool link I want to share" mentality, and if two people like it, that still feels like it was worthwhile. But I do like data, so knowing that two (or twenty, or whatever) people liked something is still interesting.