I agree. I just think it is a constant issue of people believing they’ve been censored, throttled, etc. when it’s actually a technical issue that is not understood. Either resolve the issue or explain it better to the user.

I personally think the default should be don’t show it and for those who really want to see it loads. I like how IG has an option to hides the likes to a post. If a user clicks on a post where the counter is hidden they have to count it themselves.

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You are absolutely right. For IG, removal of ‘likes’ metric is applicable for personal accounts but visible for verified and business acct - maybe because the purpose and usages ? Metric was easy to figure out, but follows is complicated - this convo can take us down onto centuries of history lol .

This was funny. “You have followers? You are jesus?”

https://twitter.com/nocontextbrits/status/1629975959108481025