The hype brought in people acting with good intentions that you would otherwise not meet and served as a catalyst to chat with people you lost touch with. This

The hype brought in people acting with good intentions that you would otherwise not meet and served as a catalyst to chat with people you lost touch with. This metastasized into agenda pushing of many forms (complaining about black men, both left and right politics, supposed business networking, etc...) from people wishing to exploit this new venue. This drove away most people. Other social networks deal with this metastasis via the follow mechanism and good suggestions. Without good versions of these, you are left with a public audio chat to talk about events.