Pendell

This is one of the main reasons I think cohost is better than other social sites out there. The volume of likes passes through my notifications feed, but it's actively working to deprogram me from caring about the actual number itself unless I chose to count the likes directly, and it does this without reducing the real spread / reach of the content.

I think maybe some filtering options in the notifications page itself would be useful, since the notification page is a bit hard to navigate if one post is doing numbers among others that arent. But for having the actual numbers of shares and likes on a post itself, i don't believe that is something that serves to ultimately benefit us

it is intentional, but with the goal that Cohost is less addictive.

Twitter's heavily addictive. I check the site all the time. I'm on there for many hours a day. I refresh and refresh even when there's nothing new. I watch my numbers go up. It's not healthy.

Cohost has a different feel to it; I don't find myself checking this place for the specific dopamine hit that Twitter gives me. I check it when I'm bored and want to see something new.

When I post my photography, I get a flood of like notifications and reshares. Sometimes someone will find something I made months ago and share it and it starts coming up in my feed again. I can't go back and check to see if people liked it; I have to remember.

I imagine you're at least a little addicted to Mastodon, in that way. I like how this place doesn't feel like a Skinner box I've willingly trapped myself inside. It's nice.

you should try thinking backwards from that, from the perspective of cohost's developers, and ask why they might have intentionally designed things that way.