kinda a girl that posts and stuff its knida cool
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It's hard!! It's so hard for people to realize that life is better without Numbers!!! And it is hard to detox!! But so worth it!!!!!!
Brother I have seen some truly unhinged and saddening reactions to your thread. You'd think you were telling people to chug piss instead of rhapsodizing about a nice website
except that analogy does not hold up.
Cohost is also infinite oreos, the only difference is the package refuses to tell you how many are in it, and how many you've already had.
it's all of the dopamine triggers with zero saturation, no sum, just a constant drip feed of "some more, but who knows how many? oh but it's more!!"
N +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 ...
somehow "healthier" than 17?
hardly.
along with numbers, maybe we should leave pedantry behind on twitter too
… The number is literally one of the main drivers of that phenomenon, my dude. If just knowing people had responded to you was enough, instant messaging or email would be the same. But it’s not. The numbers don’t provide some sort of cutoff. They tell you how much interaction you think you’re getting and whether it’s as much as that person there.
You genuinely do not seem to have anything resembling a real understanding of the psychology at play.
there will never not be a sense of excitement when someone pays attention to you and what you have to say. i know that (for certain people) one could properly utilize the Actual Underlying Data on their posts for constructive purposes, but hot take, if cohost hadn't made me not use numbers, i wouldn't enjoy the process of Posting here half as much as i do now, and i think that was the intention. there is definitely a subtle perceptible difference between seeing that information represented by numbers vs seeing people interacting with you and your posts.
i will concede, though, that it isn't perfect (not even for no numbers crew), especially in terms of Bigger Engagement, and Managing that Bigger Engagement, but as someone who doesn't necessarily want or need my interactions scored by a permanent referenceable Value Judgement Integer, i think that it does serve as a kind of »detox« from how i used to operate on Twitter, as much as i don't like that word, where that information is presented as something you're supposed to work on to improve, or as something one is lacking, etc.
i have no idea how someone could get a real solution between these two scenarios/groups/whatever though, without nullifying no-numbers posting for new users. maybe something could ReNumber things in-notification?? maybe, maybe API things could happen??? idk!!!!!!! but i'll just say that i think it's more complicated than “these are basically the same but one is less convenient”
i just got blocked on here for making a joke that “infantilized people who wanted numbers” so things are going great