Edit: Locking this post because I don't feel like having this discussion anymore
I guess cohost never plans on actually implementing any kind of numbers or metrics, but I'm just like, I dont know lmao
You can only see how well a post did by using your notifications, and only at that time. You'll never again have access to know if people actually liked a post. Also, after 10 or so likes, it becomes a vague "a lot" which yea, 10 is a lot! But when I can post on Mastodon or Twitter and get 200 likes, the vagueness becomes frustrating, because there's a big difference between "a few people liked this" and "a lot of people liked this."
Maybe I've got some kind of number brainrot. Honestly, the numbers aren't even important to me. I don't care what numbers other people have, and I don't care to share my numbers with them. I just like to know that I'm not posting into the infinite void on this site, or getting my posts liked by the 10 or so people that follow me (I don't even know how many people follow me on this site, so I never know if posting is worthwhile or not)
They say, well maybe they will give some numbers to businesses. What's a business? A brand? Is Pepsi gonna get the numbers? Will they even think to bestow numbers onto a lowly self employed artist like me, who just needs to know if posting to Cohost is a worthwhile investment of my time or not?
I think that's just what I want to know, if posting on Cohost is even worth my time or not, or if I should just focus on platforms where I know people actually like looking at my stuff.
(for the record, on Mastodon at least I get a lot of likes and I get a lot of replies, so the whole "no numbers means you have to reply more" doesn't hold weight with me.)

