The most painful part is when you keep engaging with someone's post, but they never engage with yours. It honestly feels bad!!!
There are also people who actually needs the engagement more than some of the people we keep engaging with. As time goes on, those people may eventually unfollow you because they will think you are not active, even when you are actually are.
I honestly think ๐ should create a way for us to easily see who we engage with but who never engages back at all. That would help us know where to put our energy and support the people who genuinely support us too. โค๏ธ
A lot of people still underestimate how lose things got.
Once, platforms starts deciding which opinions are allowed, the range of acceptable thought shrinks fast. It does not always look dramatic at first. It just becomes quieter.
The decision to change that direction is not popular with everyone, but it interrupted a trend that was accelerating. Open debates does not actually protect itself. Rather than that, someone has to keep the space for it.