[mejutoco]

> Frequently there is no conversation.

Very true. How many times someone asks for recommendations and then does follows up with the recommendation. It is used, at least on twitter, as away to get engagement without any intention of connection.

[rapnie]

> And then there is the influencer, marketing communication, discoverability, sales funnel, SEO, push perspective.

This is the stuff you don't need for the conversation. Maybe once more the IndieWeb and the ActivityPub-based Fediverse should try to meet each other. On the Fediverse conversations and town squares are what you get (to the frustration of some Twitter migrants, I should add).