Yeah, I'm pretty new here. I spent many many years almost exclusively on reddit and don't really care about followers. Don't get me wrong, if the followers are genuinely interested in one another and are looking to connect for more reasons than just to have a network of people to upvote their content then I'm all in.

I was just really hoping to find a place that had quality content and an engaging community. While I find a lot of the content pretty interesting I just don't feel the sense of community here. I hope I'm wrong, but like the old saying goes, whatever you incentivize is what you're going to get. It just seems like the reward system is so much of the focus here that engaging in a community gets deemphasized. That's a good recipe for a place that gets real boring real fast.

I'm still hopeful and I'm going to try to adapt to the way things are done here. I just hope that something with more depth grows out of this.