In some ways I think this “meta” conversation style is part of the early stage of nearly every social network. Especially the ones that are public messaging by

In some ways I think this “meta” conversation style is part of the early stage of nearly every social network. Especially the ones that are public messaging by default (as opposed to something like FB or IG which was in theory at least, friends and family first). Twitter was a lot of talking about Twitter. Mastodon was and sometimes still is the same. Reddit had lots of meta chats. Even the early stages of fb had discussion of how it compared to hi5 or whatever network we migrated from. Same with google plus. I think one mark of success of the network is the moment it escapes that conversation. In my opinion it means that the usage of the network is no longer a novelty and is now part of a routine.