Most of the responses I get are low-quality low-effort comments. 'Thanks for writing', 'beautiful post', etc. I can't tell if the reader actually read the article or is simply fishing for upvotes. I don't reply to those. It's been months since I got anything resembling engagement on this site.

I copy posts from my blog because Hive offers a way to sidestep censorship -- government AND corporate. The rewards are nice, but my circumstances require me to develop natively censorship-resistant platforms. Reaching out to a wider audience is a neat benefit too.

As for not caring what people think—if I did that, I wouldn't have gotten as far as I have in my real life.