I see this question often but I hardly ever see the people asking starting the conversations they wish to see. Build it and they will come... but I have a few

I see this question often but I hardly ever see the people asking starting the conversations they wish to see. Build it and they will come... but I have a few questions: 1) What is an interesting conversation even? Seriously. In my experience there's endless 'interesting' conversation happening on the big site aggregates, even if you have to do a little work to do it. Most of it doesn't just happen to you though. 2) Was there ever a time when deep conversations were happening on the internet? Really, truly. I wouldn't consider stumbling on a thread and reading it unique to old internet. 3) Deep and touchy? You're going to have to define Deep. Because, pick your interest. The depth of information to be found and conversations to be had about... picking a random interest of mine - Visual Art. I can go on Youtube or Twitter and see any number of threads about: NFTs and their place in the wider space, same with AI Generated Art. I can find videos on technique that are deep and technical. There's any number of discord servers to join that if you engage in good faith, people will respond in kind. (One trick is to simply ignore folks who make 'derailing' comments. Here's a secret I thought everyone knew: Trolls and the ironic posters want attention, if you don't give it to them they simply go away; Their biggest fear is being boring, use that against them lol) I'd be interested in what examples you have of 'self-censoring' and 'walking on eggshells'. Seriously. Even the most 'Touchy' subjects I can think of, take your pick of culture war nonsense, if you engage earnestly, deeply, intellectually, there's open discussion to be had.