As a content creator, I now have a new way to discover what parts of the episode speak to people most because I can see what people choose to highlight, and which highlights people choose to zap. This helps me decide which parts of an episode will make for the highest-signal short-form video clips, and of finding fire quotes I may have missed on my first pass-through. The highlights become a way to crowdsource signal and filter noise.
Damus users cannot highlight segments of a long form note on damus. However, damus folk can highlight text in Safari browser via Damus extension. Do you have a direct URL to the transcript?