I hope someday the infrastructure/tooling that powers SN could let 1000s of campfires bloom.

I like the campfire analogy and that’s what I love SN over Twitter. Long may it remain IMO

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Pretty easy. The hard part would be getting users on it.

I was discussing this with someone earlier today. Twitter-like social networks require very large amounts of people to work relative to a site like SN. On SN we are all sharing 21 posts, like we are around a campfire as 

 says. This is valuable even for a handful of people. On Twitter we are all spread out and have to find each other individually; when there are more people it's easier to find someone you think is interesting, but hard if there are few people.

What’s your ratio of time looking at SN vs. twitter?

Pretty easy. The hard part would be getting users on it.

I was discussing this with someone earlier today. Twitter-like social networks require very large amounts of people to work relative to a site like SN. On SN we are all sharing 21 posts, like we are around a campfire as @dk says. This is valuable even for a handful of people. On Twitter we are all spread out and have to find each other individually; when there are more people it's easier to find someone you think is interesting, but hard if there are few people.