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It fascinates me how some people on social media nowadays actively seem to be weirded out when you attempt to actively interact with them, or to reply to their posts - as if they assume it’s a broadcast-first medium.

I primarily use social media because I genuinely talking with and meeting new people, and I do at least try to read and reply to all interactions. I find it interesting how many comments I’ve received from other social media users about how apparently unusual my online behavior is in 2026.

I’ve always been a comparatively pretty high-active-engagement (IE, posting and replying, not just scrolling) social media, user, since I was a kid - but I do find it somewhere in between fascinating and alarming that being as active as I am appears to be becoming increasingly unusual.

Of course, the flip-side of this is that it also feels like when people do engage with your posts on social media in 2026, many replies increasingly read like they’re written by people who either aren’t totally literate or didn’t actually read your post and are just responding to a couple key words.

Here I will note again that annoying as Bluesky can be, I feel confident when I say that this website has got to have the highest level of literacy and thoughtful engagement of any decent-sized social media network on the Internet as of this writing. Which is also scary to think about.