Some blog stats json.blog

@jsonbecker Regarding the webmentions, you do not count the ones you get from micro.blog i assume. I so far got I think 2 webmentions from outside of micro.blog (and that was a huge surprise – and directly broke my implementation of them :-)).

@V_ yeah, as far as I know, MB reply count is not available. This is strictly the count shown on the account page.

@jsonbecker You don't reply much to posts, do you? 😊

@pratik it doesn’t seem that way to me. But I guess I don’t have a sense of a typical ratio.

@jsonbecker I didn't mean it as a criticism. It's just a lot less than my number. It made me think whether my number was too high.

@jsonbecker For all the time I spend worrying about my sites and tweaking them, with all the tools we add to subscribe to JSON, RSS, links to social accounts, etc., I sure don’t think people actually spend any time over there on my actual blog.

I guess the point of all this cross-posting and federation stuff is that no one has to spend any time there, even if they are interested in the posts.

And why would they, I guess? There is no shortage of thoughts out there. Gone are the days of our teens and early 20s when we’d post to Live Journal or MySpace when everyone was fawning over the daily discoveries of interesting, far-off people. Now that we all have mortgages and kids and most eyeballs are on 30 second TikTok videos and Instagram celebrities, no one cares.

@bryan yeah I post everywhere so people can read wherever they want.

@pratik didn’t take it as one!

@V_ yeah. It goes to show you that webmentions are effectively dead IMO. There just isn’t any meaningful adoption.