This may or may not be the place, but isn't there something unfortunate about the ever-increasing "need" for public validation (at scale)?

The author mostly managed to extricate himself by defining his own successful launch, but it's not the norm. Our conversations are rated by strangers, and I have friends who go back to old tweets regularly and delete the ones that "didn't get enough likes."

I'd really like to know if there's a place to discuss and advocate against this phenomenon. Or at least mitigate.