I feel like one of the strengths of Fediverse is that it is a forum. Same could be said of other platforms/networks, but other platforms/networks are trying to be both forum and auditorium. They're sitting between two chairs and it doesn't quite work.
When I started on Twitter (for the second time, post-transition) it was in forum mode. Insofar as social media is a performance, it was very Theatre in the Round. My "audience" was my fellow performers. We talked to each other. And flirted with each other. So much flirting. Anyway...
Over time something happened and I shifted (or was shifted) to auditorium mode. My audience was bigger, but more passive. Sure, they 'liked' things (and I had a pretty decent engagement ratio where that was concerned - nothing huge, but certainly above average), but they didn't talk to me much. I had become a - ew - producer of Content. And my audience had largely gone from interlocutors to consumers of that Content.
