<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@relsqui" class="u-url mention">@<span>relsqui</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://phire.place/@phire" class="u-url mention">@<span>phire</span></a></span> i think this might be capturing an important point--i was never trying to _build an audience_, neither with my blog posts, nor with my twitter. i kind of just talked about or did whatever i felt like. the metrics were there to tell me what other people are interested in</p>