@codl Our network is divided into specialized communities, so when somebody wants to talk about a certain topic there is a good chance instance members are invested in the topic so they are more willing to engage in a conversation with the original poster, and when they boost it the topic arrives to other people in different instances who are also interested in the subject.
@codl In mainstream social media on the other hand people just sort of scroll away, a lot of them don't pay a ton of attention to the content they are viewing. Most they usually do is drop a like and move on to the next thing, and sometimes they don't even bother with a like. This is what makes the large numbers on big platforms so worthless. You can gather a ton of views and likes but only around 3% of that actually wants to have a discussion with you.