{"id":57002,"date":"2026-05-11T18:01:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T16:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/?p=57002"},"modified":"2026-05-11T18:01:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T16:01:29","slug":"the-fediverse-stats-paradox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/the-fediverse-stats-paradox\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fediverse Stats Paradox"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-11-at-17.57.22.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"420\" height=\"462\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-11-at-17.57.22.png?resize=420%2C462&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-57004\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-11-at-17.57.22.png?w=420&amp;ssl=1 420w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-11-at-17.57.22.png?resize=273%2C300&amp;ssl=1 273w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The more I use WordPress, and the more they change the UI, the more I want to dump it. These stats, instead of encouraging me to use wordpress, and the fediverse, encourage me to dump both. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Blogging shouldn&#8217;t be about metrics, it should be about the development of thoughts and ideas, and the occassional feedback. These stats turn blogging and writing into accounting. I don&#8217;t want to see disengagement quantified. I want positive signals, and here I only see negative signals. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The more I use WordPress, and the more they change the UI, the more I want to dump it. These stats, instead of encouraging me to use wordpress, and the fediverse, encourage me to dump both. Blogging shouldn&#8217;t be about metrics, it should be about the development of thoughts and ideas, and the occassional feedback. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[255],"tags":[2260,894,5012,3703,2339],"class_list":["post-57002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-swiss-walks","tag-absurd","tag-disengagement","tag-fediverse","tag-roi","tag-stats"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57006,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57002\/revisions\/57006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}