The only feature that matters for any social media experience is the people who are on it. I'm amazed at how many technology leaders forget this and get distracted by the underlying tech, protocols, features, etc.

Elon is a great example. He thinks he bought a platform. But what he really bought was a community. And of the two, the community has degraded far more than the platform.

@mike That's why I've thrown most of my effort into community building as opposed to pouring over performance metrics, etc. We suffer from being a regional instance so we don't get huge user inflows but our interactions are steadily and consistently rising which is my key metric.