@MartinEscardo - I'm always talking one-on-one to various people in a highly focused way. But I really like talking with a crowd of people about topics that range greatly in "sophistication level", where people get to know each other, joke around, but also put a lot of energy into figuring things out together.
I enjoyed an excellent era on sci.physics.research and sci.math.research, and another excellent era much later on Twitter after I managed to get enough followers. The really depressing thing about Mathstodon is how many of my friends showed up here and soon gave up and left: Twitter made this place feel seem small and lonely. Now most of these people have gone to Bluesky.
I am trying to figure out how to get people interested in having conversations here. I finally realized that I should ask more questions and act a bit less competent.