@m I guess the effect is that, apart from direct participants, people simply learn _not_ to read those conversations (admittedly this is a hypothesis with some conspiracy potential 🙂 ).

Anyway, who needs conversations on a platform designed for broadcasting one's "self" or for screaming at each other?

👆 is not a criticism, rather an observation based on very shallow, but careful analysis of the ratio of boosts per post (appropriating somebody's fancy content for one's own) vs. likes/fav-stars (sending 👍 to the original author).

On the upside, the current design leads to the only meaningful mode of interaction which is 1-to-1 dialogue in DM.