This is exactly the problem I've had with Twitter as a social platform. The network is simply too big to the point that it's strange to me that the default mean

This is exactly the problem I've had with Twitter as a social platform. The network is simply too big to the point that it's strange to me that the default means of posting is to literally everyone using the platform. Smaller discord communities I've been in rarely get into flame wars as often as people on Twitter since they tend to already be a self-selected group of like-minded people. Putting people with wildly different views in front of each other and incentivizing "hot takes" via like and retweet counters is very much the opposite of a healthy social environment.