@indigotyrian@akko.elysium.gay Thanks, that's very helpful! This broadly seems to match my impressions from afar (and confirms some of the concerns I had early on), but I was missing a lot of details.

One thing I'm curious to hear more about is that parasocial relationship issue, especially the "telling everyone to follow them" - could you think of circumstances where this could have worked out well (no/different business model, smaller community, something else), or do you feel that it was just fundamentally doomed to result in an unhealthy dynamic no matter what else they changed?