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@manton I agree with you on trying to avoid a “popularity contest”, but the numbers are very useful in many other situations. A possible solution would be to make the numbers only visible to the account owner on the admin panel, for example.
@vladcampos I question whether these numbers are useful. So my follower count went up and I used a hashtag many times… Now what?
@manton I can see the hashtag counts being useful in some ways. "Wow, I hardly talk about #X versus #Y, even though #X is more important to me." "Oh!, I had no idea that I spelled hashtag #zzzz three different ways."
@manton One of the worst things I used to encounter when I was in the working world was people coming over from one organization to another, and trying to bring their old ways of behaving/working to a new environment not geared for that. Micro.blog doesn't want to do "popularity-style" counting stats, yet people seem OK about asking for them. If you need counting stats, use the platforms that support them. Don't ask another platform to include them for your convenience if that's not the platform's MO.
@manton There are many mindful reasons for having the numbers. For example, does it make sense to cross-post to this or that platform? Does it make sense to keep publishing the audio of the podcast in video format or vice-versa? Has the ActivityPub migration worked? In other words, are all my followers now on Mb?
It's not always the case of pleasing the algorithm or the ego. There are many situations where having information will help us be more efficient on what we are doing or creating.
@manton I thought you meant something else when you said Micro.blog supports cross-posting to threads. 🤣
(Sorry. Couldn’t help myself.)
