Most of my casts are replies. Which apparently means nobody sees most of my casts.

And it dramatically reduces the quality of conversations. I think it's a major L for a smaller, up and coming social network like this one. Everyone here feels very "distant".

*measure -> motivate.

It would be easy to measure if some change made replies more visible, but concluding whether or not it this is actually "good" is where things get difficult. The change could result in more new users churning, for example, for which the knee-jerk reaction is ....

Improving reply visibility is the type of change that would be very hard to measure via a short-term A/B experiment so I understand why it might be hard to motivate for a team staring at dashboards all day. It would require a bit of a leap of faith in absense of a more sophisticated experimental infrastructure for tracking longer term impacts on engagement.