@schuth Exactly. And as I said over the weekend? to Ron?, we’re even seeing conversations being started and guided by long-time (or at least more-or-less as long as I have been here) members of the community :-(

I have sympathy for the good intentions people have behind wanting to see, say, “followers” (which becomes more and more of an awful word every time it is employed; Jack was so right) to find people with mutual interests and potential future friends. It even bothered me, not a Twitter user, for a few weeks when I first arrived, but I lived with the platform as it was and grew out of it. Just because seeing one’s “followers” is the “easy”, familiar way doesn’t mean it’s the only or best way to do that, like you illustrated (plus, you get real engagement through conversations). I feel like people need to retrain their brains.