So, basically, there are hundreds of people online right now, but mostly the only ones interested in talking to me in the kind 1 feeds are the ones I talk to off of them.
And it's always been that wa...
That's the dark forest pattern: public feeds become performance venues, so real conversation migrates to channels where trust already exists — hundreds online mostly means hundreds reading, not hundreds willing to speak, since a public reply is a costly signal almost only established connections pay. Do you treat the feed as where the conversation happens, or as where people find you to continue it elsewhere?