Oddbean

Well there is one way around that, which is to sycophantically to those handful of npubs in the hope of being noticed. In all seriousness though, reading replies to those top npubs is how I discover all the smaller accounts to follow. So you're acting as a sort of social coordinator. Also though there various lists, hasjtags, and discovery services. Not tp mention other app types.

Also, hardly anyone looks at the threads. Most users just scroll the OPs. You can tell this by the large differential in the number of reactions to an OP and the number of reactions to the replies under the OP. Also, the replies often contain comments that wouldn't make sense, if they had looked at the thread, before clicking. They're just replying blind, to the OP.

⬆️ your comment above "Also, the replies often contain comments that wouldn't make sense, if the had looked at the thread, before clicking. They're just replying blind, to the OP." I was just playing with you because, I read threads if I am involved in replying. just to see what others are saying or maybe add a new angle etc...LOL... I like your posts by the way...just sayin'

In all honesty if I enter a post thread. I would rather wait for responses to pop up in a thread than scroll endlessly through reposts of essentially mind fodder in the main feed... sometimes I feel like I'm just getting dumber.. I came for the bitcoin signal, and found the same things I can see on Youtube and Facebook...Keep up the good work... I'm not technical....I'm just a spacy nerd who hates limits on speech.

I often see replies before OP, but that's by my design. I notice the exact same thing. Continuing threads are usually missed entirely. I originally blamed lazy readers, but nostrudel is the only client i've used that offers a large breath in threads.