The other versions of Pluralistic are less ascetic, but only because there's no way for me to turn off *some* metrics on those channels. The Mailman service that delivers the (tracker-free) email version of Pluralistic necessarily has a system for telling me how many subscribers I have, but I have *never* looked at that number, and have no intention of doing so. I have turned off notifications when someone signs up for the list, or resigns from it.
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