and say someone comes across my blog or blog posts in the fediverse does that count as a view and are my views counted if so?
It won’t count as a view if someone sees your post in their stream on another fediverse platform, since we don’t control all the servers your post might show up on. But platforms like Mastodon will only show the post title and link back to it, so when someone clicks your post, it’ll count as a view then (since they’ll be visiting your blog like normal).
Makes sense to me