> it turned out that posts drove other engagement, not members Yes, this was something particular to G+. Incidentally see these in Linus interview [0], HN post

> it turned out that posts drove other engagement, not members Yes, this was something particular to G+. Incidentally see these in Linus interview [0], HN post [1] " The whole "liking" and "sharing" model is just garbage. There is no effort and no quality control. In fact, it's all geared to the reverse of quality control" "I'm not on any social media (I tried G+ for a while, because the people on it weren't the mindless usual stuff, but it obviously never went anywhere)" [0] https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/25-years-later-interview-linus-torvalds https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/25-years-later-intervie... [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19559970 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19559970