@NEETzsche @Looming @cope

> I just post real content where it gets engagement.

You complain no one posts that stuff, then say "I refuse to post it here because muh engagement metrics". Like I said forever ago, if you just keep at it, the people that pay attention to what you are doing will shift if you do what you want. A lot of the people watching you are watching you because of all of your e-drama; whatever you do will attract people that want to see what you're doing. Nobody that wants to see whatever it is you want to post is going to follow you if you refuse to post it and only do "TOTAL POASTOID DEATH THEY ARE SUED FOREVER THIS TIME WILL SPELL THE END".

If you spend a week ignoring the drama and only talking about whatever it is that you want to see around here, then you'll see more of it. When I get time to do music, I post about music, I post songs I am working on, I get feedback from musicians, because I met musicians on here because I was talking about music and following people that talked about music. I post about Plan 9 and Inferno and people that are interested in that start talking to me, and it took a minute because it's kind of a niche OS but eventually I found other people that are interested in it or they found me.

There's no engagement algorithm, this place is exactly what you make it. Your complaint is entirely that a robot didn't mediate your social interactions to facilitate more like-smashing. Fuck's sake, try it for a week. Make a big-ass thread about something you're interested in because you're interested in it, not because you want eNgAgEmEnT. You'll end up with engagement anyway because people that are interested in it will be interested in talking to someone that is interested in it. What do you want, to be a dancing chimp trading Content for shallow engagement metrics or to talk about things that interest you with people that are also interested in them? I guarantee that you yourself will have trouble remembering posts where you had more ~*~engagement~*~ but you certainly remember conversations you had that made an impression on you or where you heard some thoughts you'd never heard before.