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   ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 31-May-2025 10:21:23 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

   • jenny (phire)

   @phire this is interesting to read because i'm fairly aware of my own relationship with attention and metrics. on my websites, i haven't had metrics for... too long to remember, over five years probably. i don't miss it. but on social media, i relied and rely very heavily on the same

   i think the difference is that attention i get on social media is quite easy to filter and turn into reciprocal conversation (with some skill! perhaps not a common one) but on a blog it's near impossible

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 31-May-2025 11:15:02 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     • relsqui

     @relsqui @phire i think this might be capturing an important point--i was never trying to _build an audience_, neither with my blog posts, nor with my twitter. i kind of just talked about or did whatever i felt like. the metrics were there to tell me what other people are interested in

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     relsqui (relsqui@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 31-May-2025 11:15:03 JST relsqui

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     • jenny (phire)

     @phire @whitequark I've heard an experienced Twitch streamer recommend turning off the viewer count during streams for the same reason. even if you ARE intentionally trying to build a (semi-commercial) audience, if you wait to put on your best show until you can see that you have one, you never will.

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     jenny (phire) (phire@phire.place)'s status on Saturday, 31-May-2025 11:15:04 JST jenny (phire)

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     @whitequark yeah that's a really good point! that said when I was on Twitter constantly I used a client and a browser extension that hid engagement numbers from tweets, and I found it really changed how I engaged with the platform. oftentimes not knowing is the best defense.