I'm quite disappointed in the quality of posts on this platform. My feed is full of noise, nonsense, and division. Nostr/Primal should do a much better job in discoverability. The main mistake is valuing followers and engagement over substance. In Subreddits, for example, you can provide value without requiring social proof in the form of followers. Ironically, the best accounts on X are often between 739 and 10.142 followers. Beyond that, most accounts maximize for engagement and the value provided drops. There should be zero incentive to maximize followers. Instead, there should be an incentive to maximize "value provided". Nostr has this great feature for zapping microtransactions. Medium - I believed - tried to achieve this by allowing you to "heart" an article multiple times. The number one metric should be value provided measured through: "time spend reading" an article, the amount of collected $, the amount of bookmarks, etc. Following should become a much more exclusive feature that either costs a small recurring microtransaction of $ (each follow costs $0.10 / month and goes 100% to the followed account) or has other psychological barriers (i.e., you receive ALL posts as an email or notification) so this way you choose carefully who to follow.