@QuinceDaPence
I don't know. Perhaps familiarity? Or the subject matter?
I just happened to see the comment and wanted to contribute. From a Mastodon perspective, you guys have 'default' avatars and sometimes the conversation seem to fly by. Might be a reason others don't engage. On reddit type places having a default was "norm" but at least on Mastodon I think it's considered "norm" to have an avi.
Different interface so the engagement is different, maybe?