This is very astute, but I can't help wonder why people worry so much about their status on the bird website. Actually doing/making things in real life is prett

This is very astute, but I can't help wonder why people worry so much about their status on the bird website. Actually doing/making things in real life is pretty much guaranteed to have a much higher return in multiple dimensions (incl. status) than pretending like what happens there matters. It doesn't have to be either/or: make something cool, throw out a link to it, repeat.