Past some threshold (100k followers?) the disincentive for being smart in public becomes inhibiting/debilitating - & at that stage your private networks are full of gold, so you don’t need to use public spaces this way anymore
Of course some of them are also just plain stupid 
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Mm... and I think even if you do thrive in conflict (I kinda do sometimes), it’s a very specific, limiting sort of thriving that narrows your field of vision, gets you preemptively defensive, etc etc. Happens to me at least
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