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I don't think that's necessarily true, I think it's about curation, not volume. The largest open source projects in the world have enormous inbound volume but extremely high quality discussion because of curation (I'm thinking about maintenance of Wikipedia, Open Street Map, and Godot).

This is also true on twitter & blue sky. Looking at the general feed is a completely different world from looking at specific networks.

Pre-2023 Twitter had very good and nuanced discourse about AI, and sharing generative AI demos was more encouraged.

I don't think this is limited to microblogging. There's a reason I posted it here.