If the numbers were less visible, or entirely hidden, everyone might live more meaningful, more productive lives online, using posts as means to ends rather than as circulations within the system.

i want to make a custom stylesheet for this site that hides upvote totals on posts and comments for this reason. this is a small site where the numbers don't really matter, but my lizard brain still likes watching numbers go up and i think i would be a lot happier if it didn't.

I think keeping numbers around for transparency purposes would be good, but I'd like to make them much less prominent.

One really cool thing about this software is that it doesn't keep karma totals, so that's just something you never have to think about lol.

This article rules.

There's a couple good reasons for follower and following counts, like it tells you about how someone uses twitter and it's useful to know. But yea, how many likes and rt a tweet has? Useless lol. It's all an engagement hack to keep you on the app instead of doing something else.

I use a client for twitter just because it makes the numbers less prominent, and it rules. I love twitter, but jesus the number shit is such a pain. Like I see folks post about how many followers they have, or like screenshotting the twitter analytics page, and I kind die on the inside.

that's a good point, maybe just making it so you have to highlight the number then

I use a client for twitter just because it makes the numbers less prominent, and it rules. I love twitter, but jesus the number shit is such a pain. Like I see folks post about how many followers they have, or like screenshotting the twitter analytics page, and I kind die on the inside.

Actually I went and got a custom CSS Chrome extension and got rid of almost all number silliness with these settings on my desktop computer:

.ProfileTweet-actionCount {
  opacity: 0;
}

div.module.Trends.trends {
  opacity: 0;
}

.ProfileCardStats {
  opacity: 0;
} 

Needless to say, this rules. Twitter just feels like relaxed spa now.