> they didn't think that maybe the right way to bootstrap a social network would be to make it full of authentic conversations, at least to start with. I doubt

> they didn't think that maybe the right way to bootstrap a social network would be to make it full of authentic conversations, at least to start with. I doubt that any social media platform owner wants authentic conversations - even initially. Instead of giving arguments, I refer to Paul Graham's essay "What you can't say": > http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html If people were really authentic in their conversations, they would be in real trouble quite soon - and the social media platform on which these really authentic conversations are posted would be, too. So, what social media companies do is enforce some kind of "editorial policy" (moderation) which makes the conversations that don't become censored still feel "somewhat authentic" to many visitors, so that this bluff only gets busted after some time in which the platform's owners can make sufficient money.