- you can know who follows you, it is helpfully in the Followers tab. if you need the total number, you can just keep a rough estimate in your head based on notifications
- commenting across reblogs is fragmented by considering each addition its own post, not each share. that is, when i reblog something without adding anything, i do not get my own comment section on my page, because there's nothing i provided to comment on. despite a lot of rhetoric around this design decision, i've never seen it be an issue for communication or security, and i actually like it a lot!
- all reblog-additions on public accounts show up in OP's notifications, up to one level down. EDIT: this does mean that likes and reblogs on that addition, OTOH, you cannot see, because ideally it's irrelevant to you anyway. reblog additions also get notified about direct additions to them, so the person one directly up from the latest addition will also have to be complicit with the harassment you are receiving- the likeliness that someone will post or reblog something, be met with a normal seeming reblog addition, and then get reblogged onto a public malicious account is a lot less likely than just using a locked account. silent or locked reblogs could hypothetically be malicious and intended for harassment, but if the url doesn't give it away it's going to be the same situation as Tumblr.
- if you still don't want to be reblogged by large accounts, the cadence at which the notifications come in should tell you who your notifications are coming from.
- you actually don't have to worry about reach leading to harassment on cohost anyway! mod squad will keep you safe and enforce a sometimes obnoxiously civil atmosphere. we actually have moderation here that isn't beholden to mass-appeal advertising! isn't that great?
- it usually helps if you ask how something works before you call it bad!
- just because it's different doesn't mean it's bad!
let me know if i should add anything else.
