Today I opened Twitter. I had 1.5K followers back in the day. I think it had similar dynamics: an immensely powerful tool, but users had no discipline and those running it had really bad incentives.
Social media in its entirety is. It’s the same reason people come to HN. You might get an interesting post/discussion, you might get a lot of stuff you don’t care about. But here you are pulling the lever once again.
