@anarchopunk_girl 2nd Paragraph is exactly why Twitter without any purposeful intent to support Black Twitter, was so fucking good despite being awful in so many ways: Putting someone you didn't already know in your orbit to see if you wanted to be moots.
And this was not by algorithm and suggesteds but by the actual sharing mechanisms and open arena structure where everyone could in theory somehow bump into one another. Even if you started forming trusted clique camps after some time, there was potential that you would not be buried in the clique camp away from others.
And of course federation starts from the almost opposite premise where you self select for your clique camp first (choose wisely!), and then whether the camp as a whole is allowed to other clique camps or not.
This leapt out to me and even as some tear out their hair about others remaining on Twitter to this day, if it wasn't for some absolutely boneheaded structural things with Twitter, I might still be there because even by sheer accident, it delivers heterogenous day in the life reporting and joking.