@tech_himbo i think that would probably boil down to having an "indexer" as performed by a "discovery service" (especially if done at the "post" level) but i'd still like to improve the model further

i’m pretty sure the most useful thing about twitterlikes is that they facilitate triadic closure — if A talks with B, and A talks with C, then there is a higher chance that B and C will start talking with each other

i’m just wondering if there’s more to it and if there are other models that do this comparably well

i guess networking events? like job fairs but for making friends

the key is knowing at least one person and being comfortable with them before branching out to mutual connections, but getting to know that first person when you have zero connections is hard