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NicolasConstant / sengi

Mastodon & Pleroma Multi-account Desktop Client
https://nicolasconstant.github.io/sengi/
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
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[Feature request] Show user statistics in profile view #453

Open crawlserv opened 2 years ago

crawlserv commented 2 years ago

Other than the web interface, Sengi does not seem to show user statistics (Posts, Following, Followers) when showing the user profile after clicking on a user.

Example: Screenshot from 2022-10-31 16-33-23

NicolasConstant commented 2 years ago

Hi! Yes and ""it's a feature"": Sengi is based on a "statistics free" paradigm to prevent risks of being influenced by it and other bias (more details here on the philosophies Sengi is based on), it's why profiles don't display such metrics, posts don't count the number of replies/favs/boosts, etc.

But I'm not against supporting it via a dedicated option to activate those metrics voluntarily, since I also understand some people might miss them.

markmandel commented 1 year ago

But I'm not against supporting it via a dedicated option to activate those metrics voluntarily, since I also understand some people might miss them.

Yes please - totally get the idea of not including stats by default, but would love to opt in if available.

vencabot commented 1 year ago

Seconding this. I discussed this a bit with Sengi_App on Mastodon, but the long-and-short of it is that I believe that metrics can, like almost any kind of data, be used for good and evil, and could contribute positively or negatively to a user's life based on how that user chooses to interact with them. Social media has always been a very positive part of my life and a part of how I use it is indeed 'influenced' by being able to see a post's metrics; it can, at-a-glance, help me understand a lot about the sort of topics that my peers are interested in, which I think could be thought of as being integral to the 'social' part of social media. It helps me understand the landscape of a platform, an era, a niche, and that can help me feel more included or help me understand how to make others feel more included. As a creator and artist myself, it's also vitally important to me that I be able to understand my own posts' reach, at a glance, as I necessarily struggle, as all artists who attempt to make a living off of their work, to make my content more discoverable.

An option to toggle this on and off in Sengi's settings would be a huge, huge help!