incentives? post if you want to, don't if you don't. why are you trying to farm attention and engagement?

Because I want to talk to people about anime, libertarianism, free trade, decentralized, Foss, etc. The attention market influences that. Without visibility no one knows if the things you post get anywhere. Let’s say Samourai for example, I think it’s very important but if no one sees it/engages with it then I just think I’m posting into a void where no one cares, thus I’m forced to post about stuff people do care about to bring back attention on the issue of Samourai, as an example. This applies to everything of course.

Because connection matters to human beings.

and you call farming for attention and engagement "connection"? I call it being unable to sit still with oneself. trying to fill an inner void with something external (attention/validation, for example, but also, simply stimulation (the farming part) because many people can't be alone with themselves without driving themselves crazy). it does not work, will never work, and can not work. connection, yes. but if you're needy it's not because there aren't others around, it's because you're disconnected from the one presence that actually matters.

Men, and Women are Biologically designed differently. Women need attention, community, and the ability to talk to others. Men could be silent for decades alone in a mountain, and feel just as comfortable if not more comfortable with that. Women have to be social to survive, it’s how they evolutionarily evolved, men do not.

You call it farming for attention dude. You are generalizing without context. That person there posted a cry for help as a direct result of isolation and sitting with herself for too long alone. You my friend are one disconnected from your heart asshole. Asshole. Like a real mother fucking asshole. What an asshole. Seriously. A total mother fucking asshole.

The exact opposite. I see it clearly, and I'm telling him the only thing that works, reconnecting with HIMSELF. He doesn't need to post endlessly to farm for attention and keep the bad feelings at bay, he needs to turn off the internet, light a candle and go sit with himself for anywhere from half an hour to an hour or two without distractions, over and over again over a period of months and years. If I didn't care I would've unfollowed him already and be done with it (another fatal point against your ill-conceived thesis). Now, my tone has been deliberately stern for sure, but again you superficially misinterpret why that is so, and it's not hard to understand why, but I'll let you think that one over. Real care is not validating someone's coping mechanisms. now he listens or he doesn't, that's beyond my control. Or he can keep doing more of the same and expecting a different outcome. We have a name for that. Insanity.