Something I noticed is that I don't get disappointed as easily by a post not doing as well as other posts I've made in the past. Not having numbers seems to have removed a significant portion of that Numbers Desensitization that comes with other platforms that tell you how many shares, likes and replies you get on a post.
On Shitter, i'd occasionally have a post do severals, and be like "oh nice, people like that one!" Sometime after, another post would do only slightly less severals and I'd be like "Oh. people didn't like that one as much."
but without numbers, it was literally just "oh, people like that one" over and over again without getting desensitized to it. People liked NACRS and shared it a lot, people liked my OBS Audio posts and shared it a lot, people liked my post about Cohost being a success in spite of its closure a lot. but i don't sit here like "well Post X was my biggest post but none of the others come close to it."
like, i have no fucking clue how many of my posts are actually really popular, and i don't know how popular those posts really are. and it feels fucking great, because i don't end up feeling guilty about posts that don't get the traction that other posts get. im just happy that a post gets any traction at all.
fuck numbers, dude. wow. who knew such an insignificant design choice could have such a positive benefit to the mind.