i think engagement is a useful vector to add to a calculation though

requiring IRL meeting started to get really impractical in the last 10 years when it comes to affinity, and personally i expected this to happen

no way you all are coming to hang anywhere near me in the middle of the atlantic off the west african coast somehow i think 

 yea, but I'm irrelevant to you and everyone you know in your West African coastal community. Whether or not we talk all the time is irrelevant, I could be a chatbot. 

 but if i find your content interesting enough to follow you, and i keep reacting and responding to your stuff.. not just the OPs, let's say, but also in the threads, and TO your responses in them... i think that it's possible to make a metric out of that