There’s nothing wrong with wanting/needing some external motivation!
Back when I was teaching, I often used extrinsic rewards (usually symbolic, like a sticker) to help them persevere and eventually find their own intrinsic motivation. Just the acknowlegment of their hard work was very motivating!
I think it’s very human to want to know that others find our work valuable 🙂
… So what I’m saying is I’ll try and leave comments a bit more, so you can have some non-algorithmically driven, human acknowledgement ^^’