User setting to toggle "like" visibility on posts

[jetpacktuxedo]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Sometimes thinking about people liking your posts and worrying about counts can be stressful.

Describe the solution you'd like

A toggle somewhere in the settings menu to hide likes. When like visibility is disabled it should hide the counter next to the like button (at a minimum on the user's own posts, but alternatively hiding it on all posts would work too, maybe a sub-option?) as well as preventing notifications about likes.

Describe alternatives you've considered

One could simply log off I suppose

Additional context

Very janky mockup I made in my phone:

[surfdude29]

This is a good idea to have as an option. It could also be extended perhaps to include repost and follower numbers as well (maybe with a configurable option), like the third-party Skeets app does as part of one of its 'digital health' settings:

Although afaik Skeets doesn't hide notifications about likes.

[pedipanol]

Seconding this, I think Skeet's approach is pretty good, similar to Cohost which I loved. Being able to get notifications, but the only number you can see is of comments.

I don't have an apple device so I'd love for it to be integrated into the main app (if anyone know another third party app on android that does it please lmk)

[Fuzzyzilla]

I have made a simple implementation of this over at https://github.com/Fuzzyzilla/social-app/tree/hide-numbers, it adds an option in the accessibility tab. Currently it only hides Like and Repost counts on posts and comments, as profiles followers/like notifications/etc. require design work that I am not comfortable making decisions on without more discussion :3

Some examples:

1. It would be nice to hide follower counts on profiles without removing the functionality of viewing the followers list. While the "50 followers" text serves as a fairly obvious link to take you to that page, removing the count makes it far less clear that it is clickable, so a visual rework is necessary.

2. Should comment counts be hidden too? For my purposes I think it would be nice if it were, replacing it with an alternate yes/no indicator showing whether or not there are comments. Otherwise, removing that count creates a serious QOL issue :P