I’m not talking about this from a marketing or influencer perspective—I just personally enjoy seeing post metrics like number of views, especially over time (like Reddit’s 48-hour view chart).

It gives a sense of whether a post is reaching people, even if it doesn’t get many comments or upvotes.

Curious if others feel the same, or if there’s a reason this hasn’t been implemented?

EDIT: Maybe have it so that there is an option in the user’s settings to turn the Analytics on/off?

Or, perhaps have it where instance owners can decide whether or not to allow the Analytics on their instance?

  • Jeena@piefed.jeena.netEnglish
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    5 days ago

    I don’t. I even removed analytics from my website which doesn’t even have comments. It doesn’t give me satisfaction at all.

    Upvotes, it seems so random what gets upvoted anyway so most of the time it’s not because of the quality of my post.

    Comments, yes that one I like because I get to see other peoples view on the topic which I’m interested in.