people posting here are going out of their way to post – and it feels like every thought has more weight or sanctity or meaning when it’s being posted here, at the dawn of a new era and the fall of an old.
i’m spending more time actually reading and engaging with every comment, parsing the details and thinking about it, conceptually. versus just looking at garbage all day, garbage with a little bit of fentanyl in to keep you hooked
It will never show an consistent number. The way Activitypub operates is “you see what you’re subscribed to”, and that occurs in a technical/political sense of “these instances have agreed to federate”, and in many cases they don’t federate everything that happens. So if someone on instance A upvotes something posted on instance B, but instance C is not subscribed to instance A, A and B will see the upvote, C won’t.
You don’t have to give up on your clout-chasing dreams, but the numbers won’t tell the whole story.