This is an interesting observation, it might not even be possible for the vast majority of users, by definition, to be outliers enough to move the needle appreciably.

i.e. readers will only care to remember the most notable/unique/etc... fraction of comments.

And everything else will just meld together into one big mental blob.

Maybe that is why there's been a flight to smaller online communities?, even 'Joe Average' has realistic prospects of writing something memorable if there's only a few hundred folks to compare against.

Literally impossible given the size of the internet. It's not like there are groups out there funded to control discourse or introduce/censor topics for their own nefarious (relative and inconsequential in the scope of history) goals. They have nothing to gain at all from such distraction, thats what Netflix is for. Society has never been freer in terms of personal expression! Your comment is actually ludicrous and ridiculous. The focus on more important issues, as is apparent in the open forum, will only naturally arise. There is no fear of doing essentially nothing, repeating the same pointless discourse... for what may now seem like in perpetuity, and all the while never progressing, with 'frivolous discourse' and trivial ego-protecting topics (let's be honest, we are all free-thinking individuals here), for another year. And perhaps the year after as well.