I appreciate that posts are a lot less likely to spontaneously go viral here. I'm more likely to post personal things or in progress work since I don't think 10M people will randomly see it depending on how the wind blows.
tachikomai was rolling around this take in my head a few days ago, and it's not a new one by any means. but i really do think there's a clear tension between appealing to a large crowd and a smart crowd, and if i have to pick it's definitely the latter. and X is clearly the large crowd.