[ninethirty]

afaik, that's by design. It's more like BBS'ing where people in the know can find a cool place to hangout that's not overrun by the rest of the planet. Like a beach without annoying tourists.

[colesantiago]

That means the majority of users to such platforms are tech people, which isn't really inclusive, helpful or an easy to user alternative to Twitter.

Sounds like a failure by design no?